If carbs are so bad, how come italians have one of the highest life expectancies?

One of my greatest questions. After living in Italy for a while, I realize it's because they eat and drink a lot less crap than other European countries. I mean fast food and sodas, and so on. Even when you go to the supermarket you rarely see people buying crap food. That's their secret. Teenagers seem to be less health conscious than their parents/older siblings, but it might be just because they're dumb teens... Who knows... But I've heard older people (30-40) commenting that younger people (15-25) are fatter than in the past.

>nutritionally identical to eating milled sugar cane
you realize you'd need to eat a fuckload of milled sugar cane to get the same amount of sugar as a refined portion? that's what refined means you fucking retard.

Seafood, olives, tomatos, paprika, antipasti, carpaccio, more olives, cheese, seafood salats, chicken parmesan, lamb etc...
I could eat italian everyday for a month with no carbs and neber eat the same twice

Fucking americans hurdur pizza pasta

Being manlets

>metric system

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not him, but refined means that impurities have been removed through processing
in the case of sugar the "impurity" is molasses
the word refined has no connection to the word concentrated which is what i am guessing you mean when you say
>you'd need to eat a fuckload of milled sugar cane to get the same amount of sugar as a refined portion

Keto is useful dropping water weight and improving insulin sensitivity, but that's about it

They live relatively stress free lives and have close family units for psychological support.

By crap you mean what exactly

Italian here. The reason, as user here said, is that while we eat a lot of carbs (bread, pasta, etc.) we also eat a lot of veggies and fruit, and most important, fast food here is almost non existant. I live in a middle sized city (200.000 people) and we have just 1 mcdonald and 1 burger king. There used to be another Mcdonald, but it just closed because there werent enough costumers. Drinking soda here is not that common (whenever i read here on fit how much coke or pepsi you americans drink i almost cant believe it, you know that shit is literally poison for your body and teeth, right?) and in general, we eat WAY less sugar than anglos or other northern europeans do.

We dont have Wendy's, starbucks, kfc, pizza hut, dominos, all those fast foodd franchise where you can buy ridicoulos amount of extremely shitty food for a couple of dollars, and I think this is one of the most important factor.

Also we use olive oil instead of butter, thats another important factor. It's cheap (here), makes you live longer, it's less fatter than butter and is very healthy in general.

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Yea idk how Canada has a lower obesity rate than the US since all we eat is poutine and seal.

I study abroad in italy and italians are the most low test shits i have ever met in my life

I guess you could attribute that to high carb diets and living with mommy and daddy untill you're 30 lol

Olives

Seal is awful desu

it would be better but it depends on other toppings. Tomato sauce is mostly processed sugar.

if you do a pizza on your own, its always way more healthy than a bought pizza

>If carbs are so bad
dont believe fucking memes

japs are the healthiest people on earth and they eat a fuckton of white rice with everything

Just curious, how do you know about the low test thing? Maybe you just live in some autistic areas in the north, people there are weird

Also FUCK OFF WE'RE FULL

I bet italian dough isn't full of chemicals and italian tomato sauce isn't full of HFCS and chemicals

what does it taste like?

The Japanese have super long life expediencies and a high prevalence of tobacco use.

Light-up user. Your analysis is infallible after all.

my diet is almost entirely complex carbs... very little simple sugars and fats.