We’re going to let you in on a little secret today—making homemade pasta is shockingly easy and healthy to make. It takes a little bit of time (get ready to love your rolling pin or pasta machine), either way the result is completely worth the wait and is healthy. Helping you and your family to becoming healthy will be a great challenge, pasta can be one of those ways. Fresh pasta cooking will lead you to a greater and healthy future for you and your family.  Pasta offers a SUSTAINED ENERGY SOURCE. Carbohydrates like pasta provide glucose, the crucial fuel for your brain and muscles. Pasta is an excellent source of complex carbohydrates, which provide a slow release of energy, unlike simple sugars that offer a quick, yet fleeting boost of energy, pasta helps sustain energy. Pasta is very low in sodium and cholesterol-free. one cup of enriched varieties of pasta provide a good source of several essential nutrients, including iron and several B-vitamins. Whole wheat pasta can provide up to 25% of daily fiber requirements in every one cup portion. Enriched pasta is fortified with folic acid – essential for women of child-bearing age. FDA regulations require enriched grain products to contain this important vitamin. A serving of dry pasta supplies the equivalent of roughly 100 micrograms of folic acid, or 25% of the recommended daily intake. Pasta is part of a well-balanced diet. Current dietary guidance calls for up to 65% of daily calories to come from carbohydrates, such as pasta. Pasta has a low Glycemic Index (GI) so it does not cause blood glucose levels to rise quickly. A 100 percent whole-grain pasta includes all three layers of the wheat kernel: the bran, the germ and the endosperm. Because nothing is removed during processing, whole-grain pastas contain more natural fiber and micronutrients than their white, refined cousins. And thanks to the extra fiber, whole-grain pastas tend to be more filling than traditional white pasta. What’s more, regularly choosing whole-grains over the refined type is associated with numerous health benefits, including lower blood pressure and reduced risk of many chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes and heart disease.  An abundant variety of plant foods including fruits, vegetables, breads, pasta, cereals, whole grains, potatoes, beans, lentils, nuts, and seeds. Olive oil is the principal source of fat in this diet, and fish, especially fatty fish. Dairy products (mostly cheese and yogurt) and poultry are eaten in low to moderate amounts, and eggs (as many as four) often appear on the weekly menu. Red meat is eaten only on occasion although consumed regularly, it is normally eaten with food and in modest amounts. Pasta meals are central to your Diet, not only because they are tasty, inexpensive and easy meals to prepare, but also because they are the perfect way to highlight and complement many of the other healthy foods in your diet.  Plan carefully, there are many pasta choices, depending on you and your families diet needs will make a difference on how healthy you will be, Stay Healthy.