The pizza diet

Is it possible to lose weight with pizza? According to the inventor of this method, the pizza chef Pasquale Cozzolino, yes. Chef in New York but Neapolitan by origin, Cozzolino would have gained weight precisely because of the American diet, full of sugary and fatty foods at the same time. But he would have tested on himself a different diet, in practice his own, called the “pizza diet” , which would have allowed him to lose 46 kilos in about 7 months, eating pizza every day. But which pizza? And above all, if we eat it every day, how do we compose the rest of the meals?
First of all, it is not the first time that someone has lost a lot of weight by eating pizza.An American cyclist lost a whopping 12 pounds by eating a pizza every day instead of a main meal. So what may seem like a publicity stunt (the pizza chef who invents the pizza diet), would not be at all

Especially since Cozzolino has an ancient pizza recipe on his side, simple, with flour, yeast, water and salt, no type of added fat, with a reduced gluten content thanks to the slow leavening (36 hours). This can be achieved by making a pizza with natural yeast and long leavening even at home (or asking for it in a pizzeria) and which acts as a distinction between a healthy pizza dough, with a lower carbohydrate and gluten content and highly digestible and a pizza dough. which remains on our stomach, leavened for a few hours and which is typical of certain continuous jet pizzerias.
Cozzolino has chosen the path of long leavening. The result was to eat one pizza a day (margherita), as an alternative to the carbohydrate dish. And if we wanted to take his example, how could we do it? (continued on page two)