Is eating too much pizza bad for you.
By Justonce
@Justonce (114)
United States
October 19, 2009 1:11am CST
I have a job at a pizza place and I get free food from their. But I think I eating too much of it. It hard to say no to good pizza, but then I am getting older and would like to know if I should be worry of some health risks. Any info will be helpful.
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@midnightbliss (541)
• Philippines
19 Oct 09
too much of anything is bad for you, but also eating of the same food over and over again. You might not get the proper nutrition your body needs if your not eating a balanced diet.
@taztheone (1721)
• India
19 Oct 09
Eating pizza is never bad for you, but eating too much of anything can turn out to have negative effects on your health.
However if you are taking adequate measures to tackle the side effects, then it's ok
Happy Lotting
@ptrikha_2 (47064)
• India
20 Oct 09
Well,it is true that excess of anything is bad for our health,be it pizza or any other eatable .Here is what I came up as I searched a bit :
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Of course, there are a couple of issues standing in the way of "pizza as health food." The first one is the fact that people put stuff on top of the pizza dough. Tomato sauce is not a big problem, but cheese is -- cheese is a high-fat food. And not just fat, but saturated fat. That's why it tastes so good. And stuff like pepperoni and sausage? Artery clogging, thigh-expanding foods. So as soon as you put that stuff on your antioxidant-rich, whole-wheat pizza dough, the good effects of the antioxidants are completely canceled out by the bad effects of the cheesy, fatty, processed-meaty goodness.
On the other hand, if you put some reduced fat cheese, spinach and low-fat turkey sausage on that antioxidant-rich dough, you could actually be eating a healthy meal that looks and tastes a lot like pizza.
The other thing blocking pizza's path to health is that almost nobody makes pizza dough with whole-wheat flour. Whole-wheat-flour dough tastes different than refined-flour dough, and the general public seems to prefer the latter. The researchers think you might see some increase in antioxidants in regular pizza dough using the three methods they studied, but it would be a small increase at best. Refining wheat takes out most of the bran and endosperm, which doesn't leave many antioxidants left to boost.
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More on :
http://recipes.howstuffworks.com/fresh-ideas/healthy-dinners/health-pizza.htm