[arielb]

There is a reason why obesity is low in China and other asian countries. They eat mostly rice and vegetables and meat is only as a condiment.

[MagnusMat]

I think in general in those countries they get more exercise, less sugar, carbs are high in fiber, and lots of vegtables

[angkor]

They eat mostly rice and vegetables and meat is only as a condiment.

I'd be more precise and say that Asians eat a lot of rice, a lot of vegetables and fruits, and a lot of eggs, fish, pork, and chicken.

Snacks are fruits, small rice cakes, rice crackers, dried fish.

I've never been healthier than 1 1/2 years living in SE Asia.

[Reeses]

There is a reason why obesity is low in China and other Asian countries. They eat mostly rice and vegetables and meat is only as a condiment.

The politically incorrect truth is: Asians have are better equipped genetically to survive on a high carb diet. If European Americans survived on rice they would get fat and develop diabetes. Asians have a history of high-density living and have been genetically filtered to survive famines where the only available food was rice. Farming, and the resulting high carb diet, was invented only about 10,000 years ago. For millions of years before that humanoids ate mostly meat and nuts, and small sized wild fruits and vegetables. People with European genes do better on a natural high protein diet.