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We now know why everyone was hoarding pasta at the beginning of the Corona crisis: Pasta not only lasts for a long time, it also reduces stress!
Do you know someone who absolutely doesn't like pasta dishes? We neither. Pasta always works. In any variant. Anytime. No matter in what amount. It also lasts a long time. Which also explains why so many people hoarded kilos of pasta at home at the beginning of the Corona crisis. Or is there maybe another reason why we have been eating half our diet on pasta in the last few weeks? Yes, according to science, because according to the study, pasta reduces stress.
Pasta makes you happy - scientifically proven
The endocrinologist and diabetologist Achim Peters found out in studies that pasta makes us relaxed and even happier. In stressful situations, according to his study, we use an average of 12 percent more energy than usual - and please fill it up! Chocolate against the afternoon low in stressful everyday working life is in principle a good consideration. But pasta relaxes us even better than chocolate, because it is used as multiple sugar and keeps our blood sugar level a little more constant than sweets. So anyone who has had a terrible morning can save the day with a plate of spaghetti - apart from the taste enjoyment …
The carbohydrates that the pasta provide get into the blood and stimulate insulin production. This in turn increases the tryptophan level in the brain, which is needed to produce the happiness hormone serotonin. In addition, the brain needs the glucose to continue to deliver. Stressed people performed far worse on cognitive tests in the experiment before eating than afterwards. And yes - who does not know it: a bad mood when you are very hungry is a well-known phenomenon, because the hypoglycemia produces the stress hormone cortisol. It goes without saying that the happiness hormones also shoot with the food and that we are able to formulate normal sentences again. The multiple sugar in the pasta soothes the stress level and works a little longer than simple sugar. The primary goal is therefore to keep the blood sugar level constant. Then prefer the whole grain variant …
