ITALIANS NEVER GET FAT? HOW ITALIANS STAY SKINNY? Secret of Italian Diet is Revealed. Roman Diet

How Italians can stay this skinny? What do Italians eat? What is Mediterranean Diet?

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00:00 - How Italians NEVER Get Fat?
00:40 - What is Italian Traditional Food like? Where Italian Traditional Food is coming from?
02:31 - Traditional Italian Breakfast in Rome
03:36 - EST ARTIGIANI DEL GUSTO in Rome - best place for Roman traditional food
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.

EST IN ROME 👉🏼 ‼️ Home made traditional pasta, delicious Roman and a great variety of other traditional dishes you have absolutely try when you are in Rome.

🇮🇹 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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[giovannicolosi]

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.

[thesmoker]

“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.

[josecruz-vega]

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!!!

[Raymondstu]

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

[followyourideas]

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.

[johnsarkissian]

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.

[trotskyite]

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

[beatrice]

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!!!

[Freidenker]

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.

[TheRogorD]

Uno dei video più accurati sulle nostre abitudini alimentari. Hai chiarito perfettamente che non mangiamo solo pasta e pizza :). Grazie.

[supertrooper]

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.

[tjaspire]

If it's one thing I've noticed about Italians coming to the U.S. and trying our version of "Italian" food, like the Olive Garden, or Bucca Di Beppos, is that they comment on how sweet the food is. In pasta dishes, in the breadsticks, in things that don't even require sugar. I think that sugar is the main culprit to the obsesity problem. And I think that these restaurants use sugar to make people get addicted to their food and keep coming back.

[lmusima]

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

[CyberOptek]

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.

[bryantsouslin]

This video is tops, one of the best of all vlog-types on YouTube I've seen! It is one of the first in-depth exposures I've had in gastronomia italiana and has left me inspired to modify the way i see eating, to decouple some of my American beliefs about food and to learn more about cucina italiana. How can you not love many things Italian! Bravo!

[filipporubino]

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.

[Savioami]

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

[zakariacherifi]

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….

[profmarchioro]

Ci hai fatto sembrare un popolo di belle persone. GRAZIE!