If high carbs make us fat, why are Japanese and Chinese people rarely fat when rice is their main staple?
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If you compare the quantity and quality of food intake the reason would be more obvious. Do you know that the Japanese are very fussy eater? They are laborious people that like food to be very fresh and original so much so that they even wanted it raw! They speak alot on the food quality while they eat and drink a moderately amount in between serving. That's why you find their restaurant very noisy. If you ever had a chance to gather the volume of food they ate for the past 30 minutes, you'll be surprise it's no more than a fish burger, some fries and a whole alot of tea. It only takes 3 minutes to eat all that if you're a quiet eater.\nThe Chinese on the other hand prefer their food to be steam so that they can savour its' original taste, they somehow find refrigeration of meat very unhealthy??? Not sure why but fresh warm meat comes right after a slaughter is deem to be the best and there's no two ways to that. Deep fried food are therefore consider "cheat/artificial" food, its' overpowering taste of "13 herbs and spices" coating is just gimmick for covering up stale meat.\nBoth the Chinese and Japanese culture have in common were their unfound obessesion for what perceivingly good quality food. Wherelse the Westerner are more practical in taste and full-filment. Basic dietary balance become unimportant, often overwhelmed by the sugary coating; artificial favouring and speedy food providers. Rice althought is the main staple for asian but good amount of everything is a key to a more slimmer, healthier you.\n\nI see a growing problem in the Americian, it would be good if someone could suggest a solution that really works.
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It because of fast food culture in the US. Consumer may have more choices but sadly it not healthily food. While other countries may have less food their diet has less fat and less sugar. For example in certain parts of the world they don’t have heart diseases. In Japan a study was done where by Japanese women who didn’t eat fast food breast cancer was unheard of. But those who live in Tokyo and ate a western diet had a risk of breast cancer. The result was that the local Japanese women living in the local countryside ate more fish and ate the traditional Japanese diet had low blood pressure. Example in Africa bowel cancer in unheard of yet, it quite common in the west. The French seems to be slim and healthy compare to the US.
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Firstly, it is genetic.\nwhen a person consumes/eats more than the required calories, it is converted into  fats and fat is stored on shoulders,belly, thighs, hands, neck, etc,etc.\nif a person eats one chapathi/roti, with ghee[just one tsp], it gives 200 calories of energy, with one tsp of  oil it gives 100 calories of energy, without oil, it gives 50 calories of energy, one should realise what one takes and its calorific value  then only  one should plan one's own diet. \nsweets, milk, butter and ghee, rice,  are rich sources of energy
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A lot of it is nutrition.  Their diet is highly based on rice and grains, and thet does not allow for a people to reach tehir full genetic potential.  \n\nLook at the historic rates for height and you will see that in all countried there has been a trend towards taller.  Look in your history books for the average height of a  male in the US.  You'd be surprised.\n\nWait a few generations and the Asians who have adapted their diets will be just as tall as the other races.
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One example is corn. Agriculture was big in the US. Our land had room for an abundance of crops. Corn is a huge government subsidy. Corn starch is in many processed foods. It's cheap.\n\nMarketing is also something that's hard for us to hide from. There have been case studies in which a certain country (I forget which country) doesn't allow commercials during children's programming. The result? Kids have less of an urge to want. They don't crave Happy Meals, and they eat a lot healthier.\n\nIn the US, because we have so many freedoms, people feel as if they're entitled to be whatever they want to be, even if what they are is unhealthy. People also want to be kind to fat people and encourage them by saying "It's ok to be overweight. There's just more of you to love." Plus size clothing stores are nice because they cater to overweight people. But do they, at the same time, encourage them to lose weight? No. They'd lose money and wouldn't be in the business. In the US we just find ways to get around things and be lazy.\n\nI'm not saying fat people don't exist anywhere else. But whenever I go to a theme park or a mall, I am disgusted by the fact that many people don't care about their health. Again, because we have freedoms, they can be fat if they want to be. But what are they teaching future generations to be?
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the ways they eat are very healthy, do you find any chinese out of shape in the states?
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Many people eat rice every day, most of the Asian do. But they eat other food with their rice, not nothing but only rice.
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You don't necessarily have to be rich to eat a healthy diet.  But if you're poor, it is very difficult.  People of lower incomes often don't eat healthy, because foods that are affordable (mac & cheese, ramen noodles, hamburger, etc.) are often high in fat, cholesterol, and sodium.  Fresh vegetables and fruits are also rather pricy.  People who don't have much money often use margarine or butter to cook things in instead of healthier but more expensive olive or canola oil.  In addition, spices are expensive, so the most common flavoring for lower income families is salt, which is also unhealthy in large quantities.  So yes, to an extent, you do have to have a decent income in order to afford eating healthy.  But there are also alternatives.  For example, my boyfriend's mom is low income, but she plants and grows her own vegetables.  This is health and costs a fraction of what it does to get them at the grocery store.
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Despite what you have witnessed in other countries you may be comparing a small sample size relative to the entire population of the country you are visiting.  Americans clearly and statistically have the worst diet, are the most overweight and have the highest percentage of obese people in the world.  Ever been to Texas?\n\nThe progression is clear from decades past especially in young people which are a good representation of future health.\nhttp://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/overwght99.htm\n\nSorry my friend, but facts are facts and you can't refute them.
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Because of the main staple in the Asian diet. Rice is known as fan, or foundation, of the chinese diet.\n\nRice, by tself is missing essential amino acids neccesary for proper occullar muscle formation.\n\nMexicans (central americans) experienced a similar genetic affliction due to their diet consisting mainly of corn.\n\nThe disease is known as polagra. When you mix corn and rice, or rice and beans, or corn and beans (any combo, thereof), you complete the amino chain and make a protein...\n\nThe effect of polagra has wound itself into the evolutionary chain for so long that the common, modern diet has little effect of revering the occular muscle contraction.
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the long grain and wild rice is much better for you in terms for whole grain.  I think you get noodles made out of wheat flour too.  Avoid eating regular noodles everyday, too many carbs and starch
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rice is a carb, meat is protein you can combine any food groups together, the secret to losing weight or maintaining a your weight is more exercise than calories taken in, its that simple.
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Wow. Lots of excuses to be fat, arn't there?\n\nFirst, fad diets don't work. They work against the way the human body is meant to work, which is never healthy in the long run. (for example: everyone who followed that no-carb diet for a full year or more is going to end up with kidney problems within the next decade)\n\nAmericans live in a culture where food is offered as quick comfort. Foods are high in grease, fat, salt, artifical colors and flavors, refined sugars and bleached flour. Diets consist mostly of fats, with a severe lack of fruits and vegetables. Even meats, which have healthy fat that humans need, are often fried in oils or covered in gravies or sauces. \n\nHumans were not meant to survive on empty calories.\n\nAdd to the nutrition problem the fact that Americans don't have steady exercise in their lives. Compared to most countries, Americans spend a lot of time indoors. We go from bed to a car to a chair at a desk to a car to a sofa and back to bed. \n\nIn much of the world, few people would take a car 5 blocks to run an errand. In America, few people would spend 20 minutes walking somewhere they could reach by car in 5 minutes, even if they don't have anything to do afterward.\n\nSpending an hour in a gym 3 times a week doesn't make up for a lack of physical exertion during the rest of the week - and few people even do that.\n\nI heard a joke that a woman was going to have bariatric surgery. It was the only thing she hadn't tried besides diet and exercise.\n\nThe scary part is, most people would rather have surgery than be accountable for their own health and wellness. And they have no one to blame but themselves: not stress or glands or McDonalds.\n\nBut I guess personal accountability isn't an american value anymore, either.
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America is fat because of the fact that we are so used to have convinience at our door step.  Seriously, drive down the street and you have what?  Sonic, Mcdonald's, Pizza Hut?  The list can go on and on, but that's one of the reasons.  Also, families now a days are so busy.  Not just the parents, but the children as well.  From soccer practice to school, they get home, and one of the parent's will be home, but they'll be too tired to cook.  So, instead of cooking a healthy meal and sitting together as a family, what do they do but drive to the nearest restauran/fast food place, and eat there.  As far as the youth of America being lazy..convinience again.  They have taken advantage of technoligies at their fingertips...to television from computers.  Instead of going outside riding a bike, they decide to sit on their butts and do one or the other--television or computer, or handheld games.
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In theory, NONE. Fruit is generally high in fructose, a simple sugar. But honestly a no flour, no sugar diet isn't healthy. The only kind of carb you're allowed to have on that diet is fiber, which the body can't digest (fiber is good for you, but you need digestable carbs too). Your body needs carbohydrates for energy. Sure, your body uses some fat for energy too, but your brain uses only carbs. The amount of fat your body uses for energy is pretty much set, so there aren't many things you can do to increase the amount of fat you're burning. Also, you'll quickly realize that there isn't much to eat on a no-carb diet, so you'll probably end up eating high-fat foods, which tend to be very high calorie foods. The only way to really lose weight is to consume less calories than you use.
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I'd say because humans aren't camels...we don't store food that we can easily use for energy later.  Also, their stomachs are bigger, and probably there are a lot of psychological issues: they get hungry when somehing goes wrong or right...whatever it is that makes them want to eat so much.  And then some fat people just have bodies that won't process food correctly, no matter how much they eat.  Some probably eat junk food...Lots of reasons, I'm sure.
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Didnt know rice could make u fat.