Curious: the BBC says Italian children are overweight because of pizza, pasta, and bread.
Too bad Italian kids only started becoming overweight in the last 20 years - right around the time fast food and sugar-sweetened beverage addiction took off here too, and they stopped having bread with olive oil for an afternoon snack, weekend pizza, and pasta for lunch, replacing them with succulent menus of processed food.
The things people will say just to justify the unjustifiable, huh!
#Food
Stefano Marinelli
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