Can't read a decent discussion about food or recipes anywhere these days without bloody food wars, carb flaming and holier than thou arguments about what does and what doesn't qualify as 'nutritious'.
Usually the result of youtube influencers claiming to be doctors, encouraging people to eliminate entire food groups. It's really starting to get old.
Best one recently (not on MN) involved a fiery pit of indignation that governments allowed people to still eat pasta! That pasta is nutritionally void and pointless.
If it doesn't work for you, or you find yourself overeating it, just quit and get on with your life. No problem! But I do wish people would stop with the misinformation and shite science.
100g of wholegrain pasta contains 12g protein, 8g fibre, phosphorus, iron, zinc, magnesium and B vitamins, plus more.
I respect most people's food choices but can't abide the rising tide of what seems to be some sort of self-gaslighting about nutrition. On Reddit recently I witnessed someone get downvoted into oblivion for stating there was more protein in his one person serving of wholewheat pasta than in a medium sized egg.
It is technically true, but why does it have to be either-or? Both eggs and pasta are fine! There are a lot of young people going around with this rubbish in their heads instead of seeking out more sensible, moderate attitudes to eating.
Eat what works for you, but stop blithering on telling everyone else that your way is the only way, how demonising food groups cured your cancer, etc. We all are entitled to our own opinions but making up bullshit lies about food groups is crossing a boundary IMHO.
If pasta affects you badly, stop eating it, but don't try to convince everyone else that it is a bad food, or that it contains no micro or macro nutrients whatsoever.
Same goes for potatoes, cheese, whatever.
(and by 'you' I mean proverbially, not the people reading this post!)