ROME: Today the world Pasta Day is being celebrated around the globe. There have been many debates regarding the consumption of pasta due to carbs.

Also, Pasta is not considered health-friendly, particularly when it comes to lose weight.

However, savants in their latest research have asserted that this much-loved food can be included in a healthy balanced diet as pasta is considered heart-friendly.

Italian investigators connote that a new sort of pasta is made from durum wheat flour and whole-grain barley flour.

This could certainly facilitate in reducing the risk of mounting heart attacks. Not to mention Pasta is also promoting cardiovascular health. 

• The study and its ramification:

Academics conducted the experiment on mice. They have been fed the newly-developed pasta ahead of inducing cardiac arrest.

Those, who consumed barley pasta, managed to survive and sustain less damage to their hearts as compare to those who had the normal pasta.

Harboring on the subject, the study lead author Professor Vincenzo Lionetti maintained that this is the first sort of its study, which demonstrated that consumption of pasta rich with beta-glucan could augment coronary collaterals and diminish mortality.

Experts are of the view that wholegrain pasta is a good source of other vital nutrients. However, one should watch out the size and helpings he/she intakes.

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