ITALIANS NEVER GET FAT? HOW ITALIANS STAY SKINNY? Secret of Italian Diet is Revealed. Roman Diet
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00:40 - What is Italian Traditional Food like? Where Italian Traditional Food is coming from?
02:31 - Traditional Italian Breakfast in Rome
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04:20 - What Italians eat for breakfast?
04:50 - Traditional Italian Lunch
06:24 - Traditional Italian Lunch in Rome nearby Piazza Navona
08:02 - Traditional Italian Dinner
10:44 - How to Stay Skinny? Italian Way
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🇮🇹 Italian cuisine or Cucina Italiana is globally known as Mediterranean Cuisine consisting of the ingredients, recipes and cooking techniques developed across Italy for ages and ages.
In fact, there is no such thing as ITALIAN CUISINE as every region of Italy has its own unique and specific food.
It’s estimated that Americanised Italian food has about 82% more calories than traditional cuisines.
So if you are planning to drop a few kilos this year - you better stick to traditional Italian cuisine.
🇮🇹 Traditional Italian breakfast
Typical every day Italian breakfast is coffee. Yes just a cup of coffee. It can be cappuccino of course but it can be a simple double espresso. And that’s it.
However, if you are tourist in Rome and want to have the best traditional Italian breakfast experience with an amazing cornetto, great soya cappuccino in a super traditional Roman place - try Est.
🇮🇹 Traditional Italian Lunch
Lunch at home is always freshly cooked from delicious local ingredients.
Traditional lunch will be lots of vegetables, some proteins like meat or fish. For meat it’s likely to be lean versions like veal, beef..
Nothing will be cooked using butter. Only olive oil.
No one will spread butter on a piece of bread. Italians never do this.
No one will be mixing olive oil with balsamic vinegar and dipping the bread into this mix - it is not Italian habit. Most probably this thing was invented by tourists.
🇮🇹 Lunch out is a different story - here Italians might have pasta or some other delicious food offered by the restaurant.
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🇮🇹 TRADITIONAL ITALIAN DINNER
When the Italians go out for dinner! That’s the time when they will have pizza, pasta, risotto and some other amazing dishes for dinner!
Going out for the Italians is like being on stage:
1. You have to be properly dressed up for the occasion
2. You have to be surrounded by great people
3. You have to enjoy every moment of your performance - your experience with food: starting from choosing it, then waiting and the finally tasting every single bite of it..
‼️ ADVICE - how to stay skinny Italian way
HOW ITALIANS CAN STAY SO SKINNY?
1 - Skip meals - breakfast
2 - Only natural ingredients - Exclude processed food - no fast food
3 - Size matter - mind your portion!
4 - Drink mainly water
5 - Treat sweet pastry in the morning .. as a treat, not as everyday routine
6 - Have a strict schedule for your food consumption and don’t eat in between. Feel hungry, take a fruit, vegetable or some nuts
7 - Cut off your alcohol consumption
Yes, Italians really don’t drink much. A few glasses of wine with their dinner and that’s it!
8 - Food is not a fuel - it’s a pleasure. Slow down and enjoy every single bite… every single sip of it.
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@Jesus Di Maria condolences
It seems you like very much Italy 🇮🇹, 😂😂 !!
No matter what you'll eat: no pain, no gain. In Italy we eat what we like, in the right amount, but a lot of gym!
Just found your channel and love this video! Thank you for sharing this information. As an American, I need all the help I can get!
Work day meal
Breakfast: tramezzino (small sandwich, the italian version of a salty breakfast), nuts (walnuts during fall, toasted hazelnuts during spring), espresso
Lunch: meat or fish (no fried stuff) with light salad (lettuce and tomatoes), freshly baked bread, espresso
Snack: fresh fruit (apples are my top choice)
Dinner (i might just skip this if I had a bigger lunch): salad, cheese, lean cold cuts like prosciutto/ chicken breast/ bresaola.
Wonder where pasta is? That's a sunday meal with my family.
Wonder where pizza is? I'll take that once or twice a month as a casual night out with friends.
Also swimming pool once or twice a week because eating healthy is good but to stay fit you need physical activities.
1. Skip breakfast.
2. Unprocessed food.
3. Portion control. Eat slowly.
4. Drink mainly water.
5. Pastry is a treat. Not an everyday meal.
6. Don't snack between meals.
7. Reduce alcohol consumption.
8. Enjoy food. Mindful eating.
Not enough. Italians walk more than average people in the west. This is very important
yeah, add physical activity, it's very important
Breakfast is a scam mandated to people in modern world
@@HCforLife1ding, this is the big key.
Don't skip breakfast: a car doesn't run without oil
“Food is not a fuel, is a pleasure” i think this is the best sentence that describes what italians think of food, all of the food culture in italy is based on this sentence, no matter which part of italy.
How about both?
@@VictorMartinez-en8zr no , it's not fuel for us . May be not affordable First quality food every day but never low ! Fast food do not exist for us , May be a couple of time a year Just for fun we can get to Mac Donald or similar .
@@rscaht talk for yourself lmao, plenty of italians eat just to eat, let's stop romanticizing just normal eating
@@MatuIlMito each country has its own romanticism . Not all Germans eat just wurstel an beer , not all french eat escargot with champagne and english fish and Chips .Not all American have guns at home .
But it's true that Italians love their food like Americans their guns.
domino's pizza failed in Italy and closed .
Parole sante!
Agree with all your advices. When I lived in Rome 25 years ago I lost almost 20 pounds and still eat lot of foods but natural ones!!! Love Italy!!!
I've discovered that as an Argentinean I follow pretty similar ways, my breakfast in only coffee, without sugar even, we also cook our food, not pre made junk, olive oil and do also the plate cleaning with bread lol I'm truly amazed by the similarities.
There are a lot of Italians, as well Germans, that immigrated to Argentina and influenced the culture.
I'm Italian and I found several errors in the video, but the two key right takaways are:
1. Portions matter, we eat generally less;
2. Un-processed foods are less fattening: vegetables, meat, fish, pasta* are better than processed foods. And we also generally use way less sauces, like ketchup, bbq etc; these were introuced 30 years ago with fast foods.
*pasta is quite easy to abuse too being cheap and calorie dense.
-> Let's look at real situation and no the postcard version: There are rising obesity rates also in Italy, especially in the less wealthy regions, due to processed foods being way cheaper than meat/fish. And... also Italians can get drunk, especially in smaller cities and villages in the countryside were "vine and food festivals" ("sagre") are held, it's common to see peole rolling on grass after many drinks.
Last but not least: how can come to your mind that "People who see food as a pleasure stay thinner than who see food as fuel"? People educated about nutrition tend to eat less and less processed foods. It's pure logic, you wouldn't fuel your car 2 times its capacity, while if the food becomes one of your main pleasures (remember: poorer regions, fatter regions), you'll probably get fat.
Fast food has nothing to do with it little man. If it has something to do it explain to me what part of fast food is bad
@@kissme1518 not all fast food is bad but many things are more caloric dense to be both more tasty and easly preservable. And many fast foods are often eaten with caloric dense sausaces (French fries with ketchup & mayo). I don't demonize them and sometimes eat a BK.
Fast food isn't the only factor, just an example of what is more fattening than pasta with italian seasoning (not mac&cheese, never tried that but sounds caloric dense!). But pasta, like every other food, can be fattening too 😁
@@kissme1518 French fries? Hamburgers processed with god knows what kind of meat and a lot of fat? Ultra-caloric beverages full of sugars? Fried bacon over your hamburger? Bread produced NOT from just flour, water and yeast/sourdough like most of italian bread is, but with sugar, milk, fats and alcohol? Salad dressing and hamburger sauces with mayonnaise?
@@Laurelin70 So the only viable information you gave from that wall of text was ultra-calories, sugars and fat?
Nothing wrong with fat there's tons of that in Italian cuisine, I don't find it anything harmful.
As for calories. You can choose to not eat the whole thing that day just count your calories. Hard to understand? Same with sugars.
@@kissme1518 Are you so dense? We're talkng about a DIET, i.e. eating HABITS. There's nothing wrong in fast food as long as it's a once in a time experience, it's when it become a habit that it's unhealthy. Italians too eat in fast food, but it's not a habit, even for lunchbreak at work. And anyway, regularly eating out for lunchbreak is a dietary unhealthy habit even for italians, even when you don't eat in a fast food chain, because you can't control how the food is cooked and prepared in restaurants and diners, how much or which kind of oils or fats they use, how much salt, etc.
And about "limit your calories intake": yes, you can do that, but it's not a question of calories, but of nutrients: fast food meals are strongly unbalanced in their nutrients composition (never heard about the Healthy Eating Pyramid? Or the Healthy Plate? every meal shoud mirror that composition), and if you want to just reduce your caloric intake, you have to reduce so much the portions that it ends to be not satiating enough.
In italian cuisine there's tons of fats, but they are usually unsaturated fats (except for butter) that are proven to be healthy (in limited amounts). And younger generations learned to cook with less oil and fats than older generations, because of the better understanding of health issues.
I stayed with an Italian girl and her family for over a month, it was one of the best times of my life. I cherish the full experience and hospitality I received. Amazing culture and amazing people
That’s so cool! how weee u Abel to experience that? we’re they like a host family?
And ur basing your opinion on a one family experience ?
Its Just a feedback. Then collect more and make your opinion@@giorgiocooper9023
@@giorgiocooper9023its Just a feedback. Then collect more and make your own opinion about that
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I lived in Italy for two years in the 1980s. My experience was this: For breakfast, Italians just had a coffee and a cornetto or skipped breakfast altogether. However, they had large meals both at lunchtime and dinner time. In fact, lunch and dinner menus were practically the same consisting of two courses, the first course being a big plate of pasta, risotto, or minestrone, and then a second course of meat and some cooked or raw vegetables. Lunch would be at noon, and dinner sometime between 7:00pm-9:00pm. Between the two meals, one would often have a snack, that is some kind of dessert. It was a lot of eating, but surprise, surprise, Italians were as thin then as they are now. The secret to their physical fitness is healthy ingredients in their food and lots and lots of physical activity as simple as walking to work or school and spending a lot of time outdoors.
Times have changed since then, unfortunately......modern life has led us to a more american style of eating: nobody does anymore two complete meals. I used to eat 200-250 gr. of pasta twice per day, now it's twice per week.
None of my friends or relatives eat more than me.
Quick food has substituted the prepared one, and even on Sundays in few houses there's home made food, and, when you do, ingredients have lost their quality
Of course some tradition continues, but, if you come back, you would perceive a different vibe
We don't eat every time a complete lunch. Neither at the restaurant. Occasionally during a party or holidays.
@@sergioconti2493 Lo so che ora non è più così, ma 40 anni fa raramente ci si saltava un piatto. Pure alla mensa studentesca, mi ricordo gli studenti pranzavano e cenavano non saltando nessun piatto.
Most important is a lot of physical activity. It's warm country with very walkable infrastructure. I bet a lot of Italians doing 8-12k steps per day easily
The macho italian would say : We are on duty 24/7
I think the secret is also they use lot of natural ingredients and the meals are well proportioned/moderated. I tried a eggplant parm pizza in Campania a few years ago, and it was soo light, delicious, which is much different from eating processed crap you find at dominos and pizza hut. It's not only what you eat, it's also how and where you eat it.
Whaaaaat ? Internet is full of Americans saying American Pizza is waaaay better than the original ones 😂
Isn't it amazing how the diet industry has convinced everyone that carbs are fattening when every culture and country that eat a lot of carbs are thin
Well, maybe the carbohydrate they should be talking about is all the sugar contained in processed food
I think that carbs satiates you the most so there is no way I eat a big steak of fatty meat if I got a loaf of bread on the side but the main reason (I talk for italy) is because we often eat our carbs (pasta and bread) with vegetables !!! Also ALL ITALIANS are ASHAMED to eat junk food... have you ever heard that "you are what you eat"? if you eat trash it means that is what you consider yourself. Remember that your body is your temple :)
@@mArI97ize rightly so, unfortunately media from the usa is making fast foods popular and widely accepted my younger generations
Like anything if you don’t eat in moderation, and you sit on your ass it will get big.
@@mArI97ize Shut up
I am second generation Italian American but have traveled to Le Marche many times to visit family. Thanks to my mother, I can cook from scratch varieties of pasta and vegetables. Thanks to my Italian Family, I can learn new recipes which ,surprisingly, are very simple and fresh. I am 77 and not overweight plus totally healthy. I read a good book:" You Are What Your Grandmother Ate." So true!!!
Greetings from Pesaro Urbino province :)
I am also a second generation Italian living in New York. At the age of 86 I can still walk around central park every other day and cook my meals at home. My mother past away 11 years ago at the age of 98. I believe cooking your meals and using mostly fresh ingredients is the best thing you can do after daily exercise.
Please, Give us some pasta recipes ...
If that's true...I'm screwed!
Nope. Wrong. That makes little difference. Weight is all about hormones. People's hormones have never been so under attack. Meds, above all (anti depressants, anti psychotics). Sedentarism. Population getting older (therefore less hormones in average). Lack of sun. Snacking. If like me you have taken anti depressants at young age and were never fit again unless while on keto, you know what I'm talking about.
I am from India, I also consume lots of veggies which make healthy lifestyle
for proteins I consume kidney beans and chick peas
Wow. Nobody asked.
@@JVJ_2000 People usually don't ask useful stuff
I lived in Perugia, Italy for six months 30 years ago when I was 20 years old. People were thinner until they reached middle age for the following reasons: 1. Italian portions are 1/3 the size of American portions. I thought I was going to starve when I got there but quickly became used to the meal sizes. 2. At least in the city, everyone walks everywhere. 3. Almost none of the streets are flat. You have to take stairs or walk uphill or downhill anywhere you want to go. It is like doing the Stairmaster or treadmill on incline or decline every day. 4. The stairs are set at an awkward height making you expend more energy. This was to stop invaders from running through the city. 5. Most food is prepared from scratch, so you eat less processed garbage. I don’t know if the people in Perugia are still thin, but when I lived there, they were very attractive with an almost Twilight cast look. Pale skin, thin builds, chiseled facial features. Main reasons from what I could tell: they eat much less and exercise much more as part of their lifestyle.
US life style is a killer...yuk
I’ve been to Italy twice, first in Rome and in Varese near Milan. I only remember having a light breakfast or just coffee ☕️ and no snacks. I ate traditional food pasta, steak, bread 🥖, salad 🥗. 7 hours later dinner 🥘. I had some dessert 🧁. When I returned to the UK, people told me I lost weight
Most likely you walked a storm in Italt.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Uno dei video più accurati sulle nostre abitudini alimentari. Hai chiarito perfettamente che non mangiamo solo pasta e pizza :). Grazie.
The Italians living in Italy are lucky! I love Rome! I wish to experience a pilgrimage to Italy one day!
Thank you for the video! ✝️
I give you an advice. Don't go to live to Rome. Too big, populated, chaotic, dirty and often dangerous.
Instead of pick a little city up. There are a lot from North to South.
My favourite are: Merano (Trentino Alto Adige), Treviso (Veneto), Trieste (Friuli Venezia Giulia), Parma o Ferrara (Emilia Romagna), Ascoli Piceno (Marche), Urbino (Marche,), Arezzo (Toscana), Lucca (Toscana), Perugia (Umbria), Foligno (Umbria), Viterbo (Lazio), Benevento (Campania), Lecce (Puglia), Noto o Siracusa (Sicilia), Cagliari o Alghero (Sardinia)
Not true.. as an italian, "La bella vita" is no more
Italians like many Europeans eat small breakfasts consisting of coffee, tea and a small croissant, the main meal is mid afternoon and the evening meal is lighter. All meals have smaller portions, spaghetti is a small side dish, and they don’t snack all day.
How do Italians stay slim? Simple - they have almost nothing for breakfast and never (or very rarely) have snacks between meals. It's a culture of two meals a day, and nothing more, other than many cups of coffee. In the Anglosphere, we have four meals a day and snacks in between!
That'all .
No breakfast is intermittent fasting , my husband does this now and has lost weight.
I can have 3 breakfast sandwiches from McDonald's, eat a medium-sized lunch, and have a large 5 course meal for dinner and still be considered thin for my frame and size. I have to eat like this, or I'll end up being too thin!🤷🏻
@@Decadency11I’m going to guess that you don’t eat as much as you like to believe you do and you probably are very active. People have a tendency to miscalculate how many calories they consume and their daily activity. Most people in America over consume calories and a small percentage under consume. You should try tracking your calories daily down to the exact calorie.
They don't. Half of their population is overweight.
We just got back from Rome and Florence. I was surprised that I didn't gain much weight during our trip. Part of this could have been the 130k steps we took, but I feel like the food in italy is just cleaner overall and didn't have all the preservatives that our food has here in the United States.
I must say, I am always surprised when I hear that foreigners believe our food is fatty and try to limit how much they get Italian food, because usuay eating traditional food here is the best way to lose weight and Mediterranean diets are so healthy
@@irenecarrillo6750 I agree completely. I did not realize how much salt is in the food in the US until I came back. It has really opened my eyes to eating better foods and Im considering putting planters up in my yard and starting to grow/jar my own fresh vegetables.
@@CyberOptek that's great
Solo questo?
It has been SO HOT this year that nobody is eating 🇨🇵.
Dunno. But I'm Green with envy. To my taste, Italian is the best cuisine of all. And Italian wine is on par with French.
Coming from Croatia, Italia's neighbour across the Adriatic, with its own out of this world food and wine, and having crisscrossed Italy many times, I bend my knee to the masters of la dolce vita.
Travelled a lot. Based on my experience Mediterrenean diet (italian, spanish, french and greek) is the healtiest and well balanced along with the Japanese.
It's not just a case if the life expectancy is higher in those countries.
Breakfast at a bar is, as you said, an occasional treat, but I wouldnt say that most Italians just have a coffee for breakfast. It's not considered healthy, generally speaking. Very young and quite old people usually have hot milk (with or without coffee) and biscuits or cereals. People with a little more health awareness might have something like yogurt with fruits or granola/nuts and often drink alternative "milk" (almond/rice/soy milk). People with a very active life, like me, might even have a little "second breakfast" at around 10.30.
I was going to write the same thing. Only one coffee is in general the "student" breakfast, but during the school day they will always eat something (merenda) ... with another coffee ahahaha
True, but much depends on where in Italy you are.
Yes. This girl is just passing off her opinion as truths. Living in Italy for half a decade now and I still get amazed on how diverse the culture is from Aosta down to Sicily. This girl went to Rome and thinks she knows the whole country. Lol
la merenda :)
@@katbeatriz1362 agree totally.
Italy has strict anti GMO laws. Their grains and produce are different than ours. Also, their wine and beer don't have chemical preservatives and additives in them. Their food is real food.
I have heard they do not fortify with minerals either, that is a potential difference as well.
Italy imports almost 10 billion tons of wheat, primarily from Canada and the US. No GM wheat is commercially grown in the US. That is an easily verified fact. The pasta is Italian. The wheat usually is not.
According to me that is not about avoiding GMO but because we Eat 5 portions of vegetables every day
It ain’t necessarily so. Some very famous wines of ours are full of preservatives. Get some information and you’ll change your mind.
@@Delibngma quando mai?
1) portion control.
2) lots of fresh and healthy foods as the main part of their diet
3) they walk a lot because of the way their cities are laid out historically.
4) pasta is not a main dish. It is side dish.
5) Obesity in Italy is about 12% and is mostly seen in older males
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The Italians know, what I had to learn in a book “Breakfast is dangerous!” That saying about it being the most important meal was from a marketing campaign from Kelloggs. Now I eat as late in the day as I can manage and never before 12 noon.
that's interesting! I'm italian and I have breakfast every morning as the majority of the people I know. It is true that a lot of us have breakfast at our "bar" just once in a while (cornetto is delicious, but super rich in butter) and we need our coffe first thing in the day! 😅
what's the alternative to coffee.. as coffee is considered toxic and cause inflammation to the body...its not good for you all canine is bad for you
@@Heavens-Humanaterian-Army green tea maybe, I have gone caffeine free, but it didn’t improve my sleep or quality of life, now I have coffee in the morning and tea in the afternoon and it works well for me 😊
US and british-style breakfast is dangerous. Butter-fried eggs, fatty bacon, sausages, beans in sauce, french fries. That's a nuke bomb for your health, a claim for your cholesterol.
Bread, jam, honey, a croissant, fresh-made espresso are the right way. I'm genoese, many make a slice of focaccia (salted flatbread) with a cappuccino.
@@claudiatomaselli6818 coffee first! Same here in the mountains of Colorado
Your great words : "Food is not a fuel, it is a pleasure, so enjoy every single bite every single sip of it . Fast eating is like fast love ; never creates any good memories ." Should be inscripted on a golden plate
so you're saying we should -- eat like old people f*ck: slowly but surely.
Thank you dear. Loved your presentation🤩
so happy finding this channel i've fallen in love the 1st time i've been to Italy. love the food as well aldo i need to.adjust my palates. will watch more of you and I wish to see Italy soon
I'm actually starting to tear up, cause i'm an Italian from Rome, and now that i'm following a diet for the gym, i'm not experiencing anymore any type of this pleasure, remembering when i lived with my grandma, and everything said here was being done in all meal. Thanks for letting me remember those times. :D
At least we have our memories. I have great ones too.
Ci hai fatto sembrare un popolo di belle persone. GRAZIE!
Thank you. Quite informative and enjoyable. Keep on shining 👏🏾
I love your energy and your editor is top notch 👍🏾
It's amazing to see how other cultures treat food differently than here in the USA. The only shock to me is how I've personally changed my diet to the worst since I've lived in the states. I grew up in Venezuela until I was 21 and it was very similar to the italians in the sense that all 3 meals at home were made from scratch, not cans... Everyday. McDonald's was seen as a treat and my parents would take us there once every couple of months. I've lived in the states for 21 years now, so 50-50 and I'm 45lbs heavier than when I moved. most of our meals at home come from a jar or a frozen bag and fast food is so convenient that I eat it if not weekly, pretty close to. This video just opened my eyes. I need to make some changes :)
25% of people of Venezuela are obese, and 66% are overweight+. They're also fat.
I think because in USA is a culture of work. No time for cooking food.
You only eat fast food about once a week or even only every other week. So you are a very very healthy American. :-) Good to see you brought some correct attitude towards fast food from Venezuela to the US!!
@@ignfan4lifeVenezuela now is not the Venezuela of 30 years ago mate
Usa lost its food culture and heritage with the fast food era.
Before that, their food routine was just as the rest of the world.
I remember an episode of little house on the prairie, where they talked about this phenomenon. It was season 8 "the progress" and explains a lot on what really happened in the us in those period and how people quickly forgot how they were before..
Kellogg's , Kfc, Mc Donald and coca cola buried an entire food tradition.
I like this food philosophy of sitting down and taking your time to eat slowly and really enjoy the food rather than overdo it. I’ve heard the French do a similar thing. In the US, most people I know eat crazy fast and I’m often the last one eating even though I had the same amount (or less even) of food and I think it’s a good thing, love to take time to slowly enjoy good food. 😋
Why do they even eat if they aren't going to enjoy it
@@irenecarrillo6750 so they dont starve and die
also in vienna they sit down and enjoy their food culture taking a lot of time
I am sorry to say that we consider almost every aspect of american life, not only in the food domain , profoundly wrong and unhealty. I don't think we will ever change our mind
@@brusnfrkap9119 Is gorging heavily like pigs necessary in order not to starve? How foolish am I to think that even if you eat calmly enjoying the food you can feed yourself without starving
The water in Italy is the main reason food and everything tastes so good.
She looks so gorgeous and expressive how she explain food with passion and accent italiano
I don't know what it is that keeps Italian fit and healthy (enough to make Italy one of the countries with the oldest population in the world, and often their elderly people in their 90s look like they're still in their 60's or 70's), but when you are in Italy you can virtually eat almost everything you like without gaining weight. Maybe it's all that walking, the fresh fruit and vegetables... dunno. But Italians, along with the French people and the Japanese, are for sure onto something.
I think that also caring about traditional food is an important factor, but people often make fun of us by saying we're fussy
Less Sugar and fat and no extrogens in italian food .
Light breakfast do not open the stomac so you feel less ungry and no Need to eat until midday .
If you notice fat people allways eat something between the main meals .
lowest body index in europe: switzerland and france!!!!
The minerals in the water usually account for good digestion.
@@irenecarrillo6750 i'm Italian-American from boston area. I get fed up with the 'too fussy' part. Italian culture and history is full of dedicated perfection artisans. That's our tradition, people 'like' things Italian but are not willing to keep it authentic. The worst one imo,, is this Cottage Cheese thing. People can make whatever they want, but you can't call it Italian if it isn't made the Italian Traditional Way. that's just fact.
I am Italian. What you said is more or less correct. What's not true is about breakfast, which is generally not constituted of just a cup of coffe. At home, we have coffe or cappuccino or milk with biscuits. People who avoid eating are a little minority.
And we eat pizza or pasta any day of the week 😂
@@biancaenera2500 But not at every meal: if we eat pasta at lunch, usually we don't eat it at dinner, and vice versa.
Yep, I think she should have included typical home-breakfast, which may be bisquits, but also bread and jam or some simple home-made cake, yoghurt, things like these.
That's a pretty light breakfast! Especially compared to a common American breakfast.
right,, a little something to go with the coffee.
I absolutely love this, thank you. I'm visiting Rome for the 1st time and ALL the You Tube videos about Roman food is how you should indulge in it, and indeed it makes sense. However, I'm losing weight eating more vegetables these days and I'm so glad to find fresh veggies when I visit Rome this summer!😊
Great explanation! Accurate and genuine ❤
I love this video and the amount of information you have offered. I go to Italy many times a year for work and business. Believe me as North African (Algerian) I enjoy every single time I travel to Italy. From Milan to Napoli this country always impresses me even though I have visited many countries and experienced many cultures, you learn every sigle time new things that will benefit you directly in your life. People, food, coffee,football, fashion, communications, nature beauty, history, heritage….
Grazie! Benvenuto
I found plenty of portly little Italian women and men in visiting Italy many years ago. The mamas and grandmamas were not thin. It was odd to me that the cuisine was high in carbs - white flour, sugar, etc…of course, the fruits and vegetables were local, fresh and amazing! There is an olive tree and/ or a fig tree in every yard no matter how small. So beautiful!
You was in the South
Amazing! :-) Thank you very much!
Yes, our main staple food is not just pasta and pizza🥰 we eat lots of fish, cheese and veggies
I love this video so much - thank you for explaining it makes so much more sense now! ❤
It's not carbs. They have more healthy fats and no processed foods. Also, the fibre and protein is optimum in diet.
Also, breakfast with just coffee is akin to having a 'time restricted eating' throughout the day.
As an italian I think that sadly we too are overweight. Not like americans but still too fat.
I also think that even if we eat “fat” dishes, we eat lot of fresh ingredients, our portions are generally smaller than abroad. Plus we eat very little breakfast. And because we live more in tradicional old cities, we move a lot by walk or by bike.
But even those think are not sufficient to keep us perfectly fit
Also, fast food places are spreading
Italy is the least obese nation in western europe so there's already a difference here , north italy in particular is one of the least obese regions in the whole europe . The more you go to south the more you will find overweight and obese people in italy mainly because of the different culture
of course we are overweight. i don' t know what most people here are talking about🙈🙉🙊
@@theteamxxx3142 Also, in the South, people are not very tall.
@@JustMe-gs9xi Wonder why that is. Lack of nutrition during growth? Implausible that it is all genetics.
As an Italian, when I watch this kind of reports about our culture or diet, I sincerely feel two emotions: first, I feel proud to be italian and to be grown in Italy. Second, I ask myself how terrible the U.S. are in regard to food and nutrition (because for the most part this "cultural shock" videos and in general opinions are from Americans). I'm schoked about how all these habits are considered something antiquate and a bit luxourious by Americans. I live in a touristic city and I see that Americans often try to be more italian in style and in behaviour but they can't do it completely. I'm proud to be grown in a country where times and history shaped the habit of a good life. I only hope that all our culture will not be lost due to its commercialization.
Niccolo, after World war 2, America became totally automated, systematized, etc. All the research for making food and military equipment for the war continued by big business selling packaged, processed convenience foods to the modern housewife, along with all the new machines like dishwashers, etc. We were listening to advertising, buying from huge corporations making millions of dollars from processed junk, TV dinners, etc. It was all about consumption. Farms were overtaken by factories and we totally lost touch with our humble earth and fields. It is still that way but now we are trying to "eat locally", etc. I don't know if we'll be successful. Even when we come back from Europe, we go right back to our ways. Why? Big business controls the US. Period.
@@rochellezimmerbishop4681 Concordo con quello che hai scritto,ma è inevitabile che prima o poi anche gli americani imparino a cucinare i loro prodotti locali,non potrete continuare col "cibo spazzatura",avete una percentuale di obesi incredibile(destinati a morire giovani) ,quando le persone scopriranno che cucinare oltre a migliorare la salute è un modo di risparmiare,anche i piu fedeli al fast food si convertiranno,a parte tutto,ci sono anche altre cucine valide,come quella cinese o messicana(molto vicina alla nostra),quella greca(anche loro nostri cugini) e molte altre,insomma se in tutto il mondo si cucina,perchè gli americani non lo fanno?,certo c'è il fattore tempo,ma preparare un piatto di pasta richiede 20 minuti al massimo(se ti organizzi),infatti da noi esistono gli "spaghetti di mezzanotte",piatto veloce quando torni dalla discoteca o altro dopo mezzanotte...
PS sto scoprendo che la pasta non si mangia solo in italia,vedi gran parte dell'europa ma anche sud america(dove ci sono milioni di italiani di seconda/terza generazione)...
PPSS vi segnalo tinyurl.com/2h8ym6pv e anche tinyurl.com/y7ekqkzu ottimi punti da cui partire (in inglese!)
Your culture will be lost to 3rd world peasants. The Kalergi plan is in full effect.
@@fasullodavvero There is a culture in the US that cooks and loves to cook at home and eat locally and healthy, yes they are here. Many vegans also now. But it has been documented that the big processed food companies took over the cooking for us years ago (and I don't think that happened in other countries so much) and made advertisements to say, you don't have to cook, we will do it! And it became frozen dinners, fast food, etc and Americans were brainwashed by convenience advertising. The problem is, it won't go away! So its much easier to grab something frozen or fast food. America is run by big, big business. Totally commercialized. Many chain restaurants are owned by Coca Cola company, for example. And these chain restaurants are EVERYWHERE.
@@rochellezimmerbishop4681 Sono felice di sentire che non tutti sono stati resi schiavi dalle lobby delle bibite gasate e del fast food,dovete ancora combattere per una alimentazione "umana" ma potete farcela,cominciate a disertare i fast food,è gia qualcosa... 😃😃
Wow okay I must say she definitely has my attention. I was almost ready to pass up this video, but I gave it a chance. I’m a “typical American”, but i did live in France, Lyon for a while (yes I know France is not Italy but they are basically close cousins) and I must say from my experience this lady is dead on. Anyway lol I’m a new subscriber. 😁
Loved your video!
Absolutely right !
In Italy you can drink any alcolic in public streets as you want but ... be drunk in public (everywhere) Is very very bad . You are considered a very rude person or with existential or psychological issues .
Special Advice for British ! Please do not go to beaches in the morning with pints of beer , After few hours the temperatures increase so much and you can collaps . Better do that at night .
That’s so funny. I was horrified to see people in London suburbs getting on morning trains with beer! And I’m from the UK
@@lizroberts1569 you should see in germany its the same you see some german with beer on the morning lol
@@parabelluminvicta8380 A yeah, i saw a German family having beers at 7.10am on a boat to one Greek island. All natives and other tourtists had either coffee or juice along with fruits or pastries but they had beers and some sort of sausages. Like wtf.
ty from Rome, finally a not stereotyped video about Italian food.
Very well done video!
My only trip to Europe was in Rome many years ago and I fell in love with its people, food and culture. And now if I had the chance to travel abroad one more time I would go back in a heartbeat.
Thanks Anna
The reason I admire you is because you always tell about the reality and not like any other channel which feels like tourist trap
All good advice. Thank you.
We were in Italy last May, Rome, Florence and Venice. The food was outstanding! Proper portion size with fresh unprocessed ingredients.Crowds are large at the main attractions, but outside of them its not that bad, I tell everyone if you have an opportunity to go, you must go! Its amazing! Rome is a museum all by itself.
I'm traveling to Rome in 2 weeks!!! I'm so excited!! Thank you for your video!
one of the most accurate videos on italian diet out there! I can testify that! Brava!!
Thanks for sharing? Can’t wait to go back to Italy 🇮🇹.
Subscribed! Love you Anna! ❤❤❤ Pierre, from Montreal 🇨🇦
omg ...this is my second time watching your videos and I JUST LOVE EM ALREADY....Im an Indian and love everything about Italy and especially their food...the way you explain things is just amazing ....I LOVE YOUR CONTENT...grazie
Don't forget that Italy is not only Rome! Try to visit also little villages, I wish every one can see our country and enjoy the culture and food!
So true! I would definitely advise to start with Rome, spend 3-4 days there and then discover some other regions of the country ☺️
@@AnnaGoldmanTravel next time i reccomend you to go the capital of culture 2022-23 Bergamo, near Milan
And Mantova, that's not too far and sooooooo nice and cultural
I've never heard such a bounce in British and Italian accents before as I do with you.
Thank you for this informations 😀
Italians never get fat, unless they live in New York.
Mmmhh ...
I lived in New York three months and mostly eating at home food prepared by myself . I walk a lot (Newyorkese walk more and faster then anyothers in the world) but I gained 8 pounds immediately Lost when back to Italy , why ?
I’m sicilian, all true what you said except about the “portion size” 😅
It could be from Rome to Milan but visit a family from southern Italy.. every lunch is like Christmas eve dinner 😂
Thank You! My family is from Naples and YES! lunches/meals aren't skimpy at all. you eat well, and it is real food.
Yeah I live in Bari, and every Sunday we go to my partners house (he is Italian not I) and the amount of food is ridiculous. He also wants to eat sooo much food every day. Like triple what I would eat back home. No wonder I put on so much weight when I moved to Italy 😅
Not true, generally portions are larger in the south
You're right.
For italian people food is not fuel, but a pleasure to live
Hi, You gave just the right advice in the end, exactly what a dietician would say be in any country. Well summed up 👍
There is a big big big difference between the Italian cuisine and the US cuisine: sugar. The Italian average consumption of total sugars (including carbs) is less than the US consumption of only added sugars. More than 90% of Italians consume less sugar than the dose per day reccomended by WHO. A high consumption of sucrose increases the production of fat (by turning fructose into fat) and prevents the body from eliminating it, and increase the appetite. So a diet with a lot of sucrose make you more more fat than a diet without sucrose, with the same quantity of calories.
Eat an apple and drink a glass of water (around 20 grams of sugar) instead of drinking a "healthy" juice with 3 apples, 1 orange, 4 strawberries and a carrot (around 90 grams of sugar). Eat a fat rib of beef with a glass of Valpolicella Ripasso (0 grams of sugars) instead of a Big Mag with a Medium Sprite (60 grams of sugar).
Dieta mediterrânica! I'm portuguese, and we used to eating fruits, lot of "legumes" fresh or soups, lot and lot of fish, meat, bread, and red wine😊. That's all about, like you say very well in your video, avoid processed food, processed drinks... one main think in me opinion, t for example the cakes on the Supermarket got two months of fresh validity for consumer, but if you made a cake at home with eggs, sugar, etc. it only stay fresh for 4 days😮, something must ring on our brain?! The process food is full of chimicals, and fat. Every single time i've been in Itália i eat and drink very well, they are so "perfeccionisti" and made things with love, and they love to show us, the food in Portugal are very good too, but the italians doing better, always a step ahead, even the coffee on a coffee shop are something like tasty...not just a regular coffee.
Mate, I've been in Portugal (from Lisbon up to spanish "Costa de la muerte") and I ate wonderfully in there too. Same goes for Spain, Greece, Tunisia, Turkey... Wherever you go around the Mediterranean sea (and Portugal isn't physically on the mediterranean but shares a lot of culture with that too) you are fine :)
We UItalians may have more different plates just because we go from nearly continental climate in the north to nearly african climate in the deep south, but overall the Mediterranean countries (and I include Portugal too) are gold when it comes to food ;)
Only disappointment was to discover that "vino verde" isn't "verde" (green) at all ;) ;)
Great question!
Italy is my favorite country to spend my holidays. The thing I love the most, if I want to have dinner @ 10 in the evening, no problem! Mediterranean lifestyle! 💕
The adult obesity rate of Italy was already at roughly 20% in 2016 ….. and has gone up ever since just like in all other European countries.
You make me proud to be Roman with your wounderful and relaxing video!
Thanks Anna. very revealing about how to eat and enjoy rich italian food without getting fat... I wondered how having a coffee and a pastry for breakfast followed by pizza and pasta for lunch and dinner didnt make Italians fat... now I know...great content..
Been doing intermittent fasting for more than 2years, so glad I stumbled on your blog!!! 😘 So in love with your positivity ❤❤ Grazie bella!!! Just subscribed and will be your follower.
She showed us only restaurant food not what Italians typically eat. When she described what they eat at home they were all photos of dressed up meals. It would be interesting to see examples of what they’re actual food looks like that is cooked at home.
Pasta at every "pranzo". But their wheat is not modified like ours is. Also, they do eat pork. But Italians do still prioritize food over other things like homes and cars. They understand the importance of what we eat.
Yes, restaurant food is different from home food. If we'd eat restaurant food and pizza and gelato every day we would be obese too.
Amazing🤩Thanks, Anna!
Thank you very much indeed 😉🤗❤️
Annaa, thanks for your useful, funny videos. We are touring Italy now and fimds your videos very helpful. ❤
Best good life style video I have ever seen hands down.
Usually after lunch we have an espresso and an ammazzacaffe' which is a digestivo (liquor). There are many good digestivi in Italy worthy a try. DO not miss them after lunch or dinner!! You can opt adding grappa to your coffee (caffe' corretto)
This is definitely one of my favorite videos from you. The way you've described Italian habits plus the memes
Especially the Apple bite cracked me up! Although I'm not fat but sure a cup of cappuccino as breakfast sounds like a deal!
In realtà prendere solo il caffe al mattino x colazione è un usanza dei tempi moderni , quando ero piccola nessuno faceva colazione cosi ma si faceva il caffelatte con il pane , il burro si usa ancora , anche se meno , soprattutto al nord .
Cool video!
You're lovely. Thanks for talking about our country and our culture in this way! I'm glad you love it!
Aww thank you so much for watching ❤️ I’m so happy you enjoyed it 🤗
I would say that the most common breakfast for the italians at home is milk with biscuits, cereals, cake, bred... but there are also a big part of people that don't do that
I love italian food ! Next time I go to Rome I will eat at this good restaurant ! Thank you for the tip ! 💕💕💕
Hello Maria how are you doing 😊
It is beautiful your video!!!
This actually makes perfect sense. .-)
I so much enjoyed this video that I watched it twice! Thank you 😊
Wow, nice video: as an Italian, I must say that it perfectly shows our relationships with the food. And thanks for clearly saying that we normally don't eat pizza at lunch :D
Your next step to move closer to Italian culture is... to speak louder :) In your videos, you talk in such a way that in the beginning, I wondered if anyone was sleeping in the next room :D
And, to be honest, it's a way that most Italians can consider intriguing or appropriate just for - er - intimate moments... ;)
she's not even Italian,
veramente brava! She's got it down, starting from respect and intelligence with the culture. Yes, I'd say follow her advice ; )
I genuinely liked everything you said. It's everything that I have been taught in India. Glad I found your channel.
i love italian food i went to italy 3 years ago for my aunts marrige and i went the nature there was beautiful and it had the warmest climat e ive ever been in-
Italians live a completely different lifestyle than we do in America. Italians take the time to enjoy things more, especially food. In America, it's constantly run, run, run, and no one has time or energy to shop daily for fresh ingredients and make healthy food for each meal. Surely we could make time, but we don't. Italians do it right.
We have to work; they're not fond of work or moving at a fast pace lol
❤❤❤❤❤❤Grazie! A presto
This video is very anecdotal... But the primary problem driving global obesity is very clearly refined oils and added sugars which are primary components in most ultra processed foods.
The food looks so delicious!! Nice t-shirt 😊.