| In 2008 we live in a time of plenty, we have more | | | | Go to any supermarket in Italy and try to find a |
| disposable income than ever before yet we are more | | | | pre-made pasta sauce, you won't find one anywhere, |
| in debt than ever before, we have more leisure time | | | | why not? The answer is because although the |
| than ever before yet we work harder than ever | | | | Italians consume more tomatoes than anywhere else |
| before. Likewise we are more health conscious than | | | | in the world they also know what is good for there |
| ever before but yet obesity rates are rising in most | | | | bodies, and a ready made tomato sauce with all the |
| parts of the world faster than imaginable. | | | | additives that goes into it doesn't come in that |
| We are all aware of the amount of exercise that we | | | | healthy in the whole scheme of things. |
| have to do on a weekly basis and how much fruit | | | | I guarantee you that if you spend twenty minutes |
| and vegetables we have to eat but yet the world is | | | | making your family a fresh healthy tomato sauce you |
| getting fatter. Italian food may have the answer. | | | | will never go back to buying a ready made version. |
| There are many reasons for this but the main reason | | | | As well as this, coupled with the recommended |
| has to be poor diet. Sugar and salt levels in most | | | | amount of exercise each week you will soon find |
| foods is vastly greater than the levels of twenty | | | | that you really can make a difference to your |
| years ago, couple this with the fact that fast food is | | | | waist-line. |
| for many people a stable diet then you can begin to | | | | The beauty about Italian food is its simplicity; it really |
| see where the problems lie. One answer many lay in | | | | is a case of less is more. |
| eating more Italian foods. Most people love pasta and | | | | A basic tomato sauce consists of nothing more than |
| are more than able to make a plate of pasta for | | | | tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, salt and pepper. To make |
| themselves and their families but how many people | | | | the sauce takes no more than twenty minutes from |
| actually make their own tomato sauce, free of added | | | | start to finish, cook the pasta (use wholemeal if |
| sugar and salt made with totally natural produce, free | | | | you're really health conscious) while the sauce is |
| from additives and preservatives and ready to eat in | | | | cooking and you should be sitting down to a very |
| less than 25 minutes. | | | | healthy and nutritious meal within half an hour. |
| It's no coincidence that Italy, and particularly Sardinia | | | | I can't guarantee that Italian food will solve the world |
| have the longest life expectancy of anywhere in | | | | of all of it's obesity problems but if we all started to |
| Europe. Coupled with a wonderful climate the diet | | | | take a leaf out of their cook books and start to eat |
| Italy / Sardinia id based around tomatoes, olive oil, | | | | a basic healthy diet consisting of the above |
| garlic, fresh meat, fresh fish, fruit, vegetables and | | | | ingredients we will be taking giant steps in the right |
| pasta. Everything you need to have a healthy | | | | direction. |
| balanced diet. | | | | |