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“Mom, I wish you would switch to whole wheat pasta. There are so many health benefits!”
“But it’s more expensive and not as tasty. Your Dad and brother won’t like it.”

For the one month during the summer, while my parents were away, that I was in charge of groceries and cooking for my brother and I I decided to make the switch. Upon their return I had changed all of pasta at home to whole wheat! My Dad and brother liked how eating whole wheat pasta made them feel full for longer after a meal.

Whole wheat pasta is one way to increase your dietary fibre intake. It is thought that higher fibre diets can protect against heart disease by lowering blood pressure and reducing blood cholesterol. Fibre lowers cholesterol by aiding in the excretion of bile acids and forcing the liver to use its cholesterol to make new bile acids.

I don’t blog often – its not that I’ve never had blogs, I just don’t post in them. So keeping a weekly blog will be something entirely new for me. I’ll be posting about my adventures as a first year at UBC. So here’s an introduction!

My name is Kiely (male – to avoid any confusion) and I’m on the First Year Blog Squad. I grew up in the Lower Mainland and I’ve lived in the same house all my life. I have a certain affection for the west coast and I don’t see myself leaving anytime soon. I am entering the Faculty of Land and Food Systems and I’ll be living in Totem Park over the next year. I have the option of living between residence and home and plan to take advantage of that.

One important thing about me is that I love food. Every aspect of it, really. I love eating and cooking for others. Over the summer I realized that I spend a lot of my time thinking about food. I’ll probably have more recipe books in my dorm than novels or textbooks (well maybe not textbooks, there seem to be a lot of those). Figuring out the flavour profiles and origins of a cuisine is as satisfying to me as doing a good puzzle or playing a video game.

I’m extremely excited to be starting at UBC in less than a week. There are so many things that will be changing in my life. New residence, new friends, new food! 4/5 days of the week I don’t have any classes earlier than noon so you’ll be likely to find me at the gym or around campus. Feel free to say hi! And I’m not listing any distinguishing features, you’ll all have to go by my About Me picture.