Thread: Rice in Asia

There's a fairly interesting book, Japanese Women Don't Get Old or Fat , that discusses the rice/thin dichotomy. According to the author [never been to Japan, can't speak for the validity], the Japanese eat rice with every single meal in very small quantities and use absolutely tiny serving dishes. The experience I can speak from is the size of the bowls at a traditional Japanese restaurant. I was alarmed that the side of rice...

don't forget that we are comparing a diet that's carb is mostly rice to the SAD which is mostly whatever carbs we can shove in our mouths. if we eat a burger, fries, and a soda, we have consumed way more carbs than a bowl of rice. as asians eat more carbs, their health heads in the same direction as ours....diabetes is very high in japan.