_How Can Asians Eat High-Carbohydrate Diets and Remain Skinny?
_How Can Asians Eat High-Carbohydrate Diets and Remain Skinny?
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If you watch the news or any of the popular talk shows, you know that the "Paleo Diet" is all the rage right now. Instead of being heralded under the Atkins name, however, these new low-carb diets are being clad in new names such as "Ancestral" or "Paleo" diets. Regardless of what it's called these approaches to eating are built on the same principles that Atkins put forth. Grains, like wheat & rice, and sugar are out while copious amounts of fish, grass-fed beef, wild game, and salad greens take their place. Eating this way is suppose to promote weight loss and better heart health by removing insulin from the mix. Insulin is know to facilitate fat storage and because it forces the kidneys to hoard salt, it causes the body to conserve water to balance out the eleveated levels of sodium and thus increases blood pressure as well. This basic principle does bring up some pertinent questions though. After all, if all you had to do is reduce your consumption of carbohydrates in order to loose weight, then those who eat the least amount of carbs should be the skinniest and those who eat more should be the fattest, right? Yet if we look at the various nations on the Asian continent, we see that this isn't a hard-and-fast truth. After all, don't they just pound down rice by the kilo over there? How come everyone over there isn't as big as a house?
Nobody is denying that people over in Asia eat a lot of rice. It doesn't matter which region. It's used extensively in Japan as both a side dish and, in the case of sushi, a prime component of the main course. Japan isn't alone on this either. All across Asia, from Indonesia to India, to Indochina, rice is going to be found pretty much at most, if not every, meal. Even in North Korea, where the people are known to be starving, you'll find them eating rice. In fact, people living in that devastate nation might be living on nothing but rice. So we come to the crux o the matter. How can these people eat so many carbs and still remain, as a whole, relatively lean?
This is probably the second biggest thing rice has going for it over wheat, the only exception being the absence of gluten. The two grains may both be seeds of their respective plants, but the similarities pretty much end there. Since the starches that make up the majority of the mass of any single grain of wheat germ are different from that of rice, they are very different animals. One that doesn't instantly send blood sugar levels through the roof. Bottom line is that you need to go with rice if you're going to eat grains at all. It's go a long way in helping to keep you from getting fat. We might say that Asian people are poisoning themselves to one degree with over-consumption of sugar in the form of rice, but I'd be willing to bet that a lot more would die from starvation if they didn't eat rice. Seems like a no-brainer to me. They're not going to be able to stop eating the rice anytime soon short of a world-wide food revolution.
Even in areas of New York or Los Angeles, you will see a very different attitude toward physical activity and fitness in the Asian communities which have sprung up there. Most Asians will admit that integrating the physical into their lives is a high priority. After all, these people invented Tai Qwan Do, yoga, and other intense disciplines. They're not strangers to physical endeavors. Nothing seems to be dissuading them from keeping a high level of activity which translates into a high amount of calories burned throughout the day. It could be due in part to their strong connection to their families and the cultural patterns that bind them. It's hard to say, but we can make a call on the easily observable phenomenon of generally high levels of activities in Asian communities.
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No, I really don't think that an Asian Paradox exists. Take out the calories from high-fructose corn syrup, and supermarket shelves stuffed with wheat and corn based food products and you've already won half the battle. These are the two substances in the Western diet which bring on all the ills that we are dealing with. Rice is a far more tame form of carbohydrate. Furthermore, people in Asia are becoming fatter. India and China both are facing a diabetes crisis. These changes have only come about since wheat and corn have become popular over there. Plain and simple, the more corn they eat; the more wheat they eat - the sicker they'll become..
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If you watch the news or any of the popular talk shows, you know that the "Paleo Diet" is all the rage right now. Instead of being heralded under the Atkins name, however, these new low-carb diets are being clad in new names such as "Ancestral" or "Paleo" diets. Regardless of what it's called these approaches to eating are built on the same principles that Atkins put forth. Grains, like wheat & rice, and sugar are out while copious amounts of fish, grass-fed beef, wild game, and salad greens take their place. Eating this way is suppose to promote weight loss and better heart health by removing insulin from the mix. Insulin is know to facilitate fat storage and because it forces the kidneys to hoard salt, it causes the body to conserve water to balance out the eleveated levels of sodium and thus increases blood pressure as well. This basic principle does bring up some pertinent questions though. After all, if all you had to do is reduce your consumption of carbohydrates in order to loose weight, then those who eat the least amount of carbs should be the skinniest and those who eat more should be the fattest, right? Yet if we look at the various nations on the Asian continent, we see that this isn't a hard-and-fast truth. After all, don't they just pound down rice by the kilo over there? How come everyone over there isn't as big as a house?
Nobody is denying that people over in Asia eat a lot of rice. It doesn't matter which region. It's used extensively in Japan as both a side dish and, in the case of sushi, a prime component of the main course. Japan isn't alone on this either. All across Asia, from Indonesia to India, to Indochina, rice is going to be found pretty much at most, if not every, meal. Even in North Korea, where the people are known to be starving, you'll find them eating rice. In fact, people living in that devastate nation might be living on nothing but rice. So we come to the crux o the matter. How can these people eat so many carbs and still remain, as a whole, relatively lean?
This is probably the second biggest thing rice has going for it over wheat, the only exception being the absence of gluten. The two grains may both be seeds of their respective plants, but the similarities pretty much end there. Since the starches that make up the majority of the mass of any single grain of wheat germ are different from that of rice, they are very different animals. One that doesn't instantly send blood sugar levels through the roof. Bottom line is that you need to go with rice if you're going to eat grains at all. It's go a long way in helping to keep you from getting fat. We might say that Asian people are poisoning themselves to one degree with over-consumption of sugar in the form of rice, but I'd be willing to bet that a lot more would die from starvation if they didn't eat rice. Seems like a no-brainer to me. They're not going to be able to stop eating the rice anytime soon short of a world-wide food revolution.
Even in areas of New York or Los Angeles, you will see a very different attitude toward physical activity and fitness in the Asian communities which have sprung up there. Most Asians will admit that integrating the physical into their lives is a high priority. After all, these people invented Tai Qwan Do, yoga, and other intense disciplines. They're not strangers to physical endeavors. Nothing seems to be dissuading them from keeping a high level of activity which translates into a high amount of calories burned throughout the day. It could be due in part to their strong connection to their families and the cultural patterns that bind them. It's hard to say, but we can make a call on the easily observable phenomenon of generally high levels of activities in Asian communities.
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No, I really don't think that an Asian Paradox exists. Take out the calories from high-fructose corn syrup, and supermarket shelves stuffed with wheat and corn based food products and you've already won half the battle. These are the two substances in the Western diet which bring on all the ills that we are dealing with. Rice is a far more tame form of carbohydrate. Furthermore, people in Asia are becoming fatter. India and China both are facing a diabetes crisis. These changes have only come about since wheat and corn have become popular over there. Plain and simple, the more corn they eat; the more wheat they eat - the sicker they'll become..