Pasta Is Good For You, Say Scientists Funded By Big Pasta (buzzfeed.com)

Earlier this month, numerous news outlets reported on a study which concludes that eating pasta is good for health. In fact, the reports claimed, eating pasta could help you lose weight. Except, there is more to the story. BuzzFeed News reports: What those and many other stories failed to note, however, was that three of the scientists behind the study in question had financial conflicts as tangled as a bowl of spaghetti, including ties to the world's largest pasta company, the Barilla Group. Over the last decade or so, with the rise of the Atkins, South Beach, paleo, and ketogenic diets, Big Pasta has battled a societal shift against carbohydrates -- and funded and promoted research suggesting that noodles are good for you.

At least 10 peer-reviewed studies about pasta published since 2008 were either funded directly by Barilla or, like the one published this month, were carried out by scientists who have had financial ties to the company, which reported sales of 3.4 billion euros ($4.2 billion) in 2016. For two years, Barilla has publicized some of these studies, plus others favorable to its product, on its website with taglines like "Eat Smart Be Smart...With Pasta" and "More Evidence Pasta Is Good For You." And the company hired the large public relations firm Edelman to push the latest study's findings to journalists.

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More accurately....

[gerald.edward.butler]

Your lifestyle (to make a living) requires you to sit for 10+ hours per day and the entire society is built around driving to/from work and high-calorie food is easily available and it doesn't take much over years to turn a once thin person into a fat person. So spare the world your smug self-righteousness and may you and all your progeny die of horrible rotting cancer and diabetes.

Scientists with conflict of interest

[mi]

What those and many other stories failed to note, however, was that three of the scientists behind the study in question had financial conflicts as tangled as a bowl of spaghetti, including ties to the world's largest pasta company

So what?.. Nearly all of the "climate scientists" draw their salaries from government institutions. Yet, we aren't supposed to question their "consensus" affirming the need for the governments to expand, as tainted by the obvious conflict of interest...