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Whole wheat pasta is the preferred type of pasta on the South Beach Diet. We recommended that you boil the pasta until just tender or "al dente." Also, to reduce portion size, try eating pasta as a side dish to your fish or chicken, rather than a stand-alone entree.

Enjoy your pasta with a low-sugar tomato sauce. Research shows that lycopene in tomatoes can be more efficiently absorbed when processed into tomato sauces or tomato paste. This is important because lycopene has been shown to help prevent prostate cancer.