I did'nt ask him on the whole wheat pasta. I didnt know this so cooked higher levels of Lycopene? I wonder why.
Yeah, it surprised me too. Most vegetables are better for you uncooked. Tomatoes are the exception, it seems.
Falcon would be proud of me, when I last attended the prostate cancer group I belong to, the guest speaker was a vegan dietician. A lot of what she advocated was what Falcon suggests. I think her diet suggestion offered more variety though. Falcon goes on jags of one or two particular foods and then switches to something else. She talked about cooked tomatoes and Lycopene. She advocated putting a tablespoon or so of tomato paste on other foods to make them more interesting.
Lately, I am reading labels a lot. Some of the foods I thought were relatively healthy have turned out not to be.
Essentially, processed foods are less healthy then unprocessed foods. Tomatoes being one of the exceptions, since cooking something is in fact processing it.