However, for some, low-carb is “the good news:” a gospel that invades national news sources and food choices. The birth of the low-carb phenomenon has put to task every definition of what characterizes a healthy diet--even to the extent that many are calling for an updated food guide pyramid.
However, one high-carb product, pasta, is fighting back. K. Dun Gifford, founder and president of The Oldways Preservation Trust, a Boston-based nonprofit think tank on food issues, vehemently opposes the concept that pasta is unhealthy and advises that the onslaught of information about the dangers of carbohydrates is false. In February 2004, Oldways scheduled a three-day conference in Rome, Italy, the heart of pasta country, to defend the honor of a food product it considers a healthy staple in family meals throughout much of the world.