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Dr.Ekberg the most worst point you didn't mention - the back of white rice packets (especially on the giant Indian basmasti rice bags) they actually write its approved for diabetics!)
I'm Asian. My grandparents were very healthy and lived very long. Their lifestyle was very different so we cannot consider Rice eating only. They ate rice, they used coconut milk, coconut oil, fresh fruits and vegetables. They used herbs to spice their food in every meal and got some natural micro-nuterients. They drank herbal teas every evening with honey or juggary, and never used white sugar. They woke up early in the morning, walk to the rice fields to work, or bicycled to the work place, or walked to the bus station to take public transportation, and did the same on the way back home. My grandparents lived in a tropical country with 80% humidity but sunshine throughout the year, so they used body energy in sweating too. My mom said the that everybody went to bed around 8pm and woke up at 4am. So they had a good 8hr sleep. So it is not just the rice they ate made them.healthy, it is the whole lifestyle.
I escaped from the medieval, agrarian hellhole to arrive in America, only to find out the “lifestyle“ i fled from has been repackaged as IF, “keto“ and “paleo“ and something everybody must move towards 🤣😂
Yes and there are a lot of underreported poor, unemployed poor who don’t fit on the paradigm that poverty has diminished. There are other factors in mass production of processed trash foods that would explain the obesity, insulin resistance issue. The gap between rich and poor has widened. Sure we aren’t living in the feudal age but his formula of poverty is off.
@@rixietaymikoeay2413 Emphasis of my sentence on "were". (Pre-industrialization) Poor people actually eat more calories than wealthy people on average now. Carbs/sugar in general are much cheaper than protein and fat.
I have said for many years, that the United States is the best in the world at processing food. I didn’t realize until recently that this a curse not a blessing.
There was a great show on PBS about some families trying to replicate the homestead experience of the 1800s west. One guy was freaking out thinking there was something wrong with him as he was getting really skinny. The doctor rides up (horse and buggy, of course), examines him and pronounces he's fine, and that being that skinny was the norm back then. Reality check.
My grandfather lived till 97. He ate white rice three times a day. But he walked a lot everyday. He was very active. He was slim and healthy. I was a chubby kid. Because I loved coke and orange juice.
Now, u can drink sodas or coffee everyday. You will not get fat if you replace the meals with your drinks. All about the calories intake folks. U will die fast if u pick this type of diet. Lol
I am Japanese, from Okinawa, which is one of World's Blue Zones, with longest life in the world. We traditional mostly eat white rice, with many green vegetables, roots, sweet potato and yam. Sometimes eat natural meat, but mostly plants. My grandparents was centenarian. We are slim body and active exercise. But more teenager are fast food so less healthy.
As someone who spends a lot of time in Asia the last 30 years , Diets in Asia have changed dramatically, far more western style meals now , it’s common to see asians drinking soft drinks, eating western style fast food , far more sugar in their diets now . It’s happened quickly, you very rarely saw it 20 years ago
@@OrbitalTrails-x5s why are people on primal type diets very lean ? I think the combination is where the problem lies I’m on a high quality fat diet but monitor my carbs , in my 60s with a six pack Asians have always eaten a lot of fat , they eat a lot of pork
I wonder if anyone has done a study on the correlation between the spread of western fast food/junk food in a country and that country's obesity level.
I remember my grandmother who had cooked rice all her life (ever since she was 12) several times a week until she was in her 60s. One day as she was cooking the dish she had cooked for several decades she said “oh no, they changed the rice. This rice is brittle and has a terrible texture, plus no smell. They definitely changed it.” The woman knew her stuff. And she was right.
Here in Tokyo ( Japan ), most people are skinny despite eating at least 3 bowls full of rice everyday. Its probably because in here, people walk everywhere,or cycling.
plus they eat tsukemono with every meal, stimulate their heat shock proteins with daily hot baths, and they drink rokucha 'green tea'.... i moved to tokyo 20 years ago, never had a problem maintaining weight here.
As an Asian from a developing country, I can easily explain the reason why. Back in my father’s generation, people only ate rice, not a lot of meat, a small portion of meal, a lot of labour work and they walked everywhere instead of driving. And now, my generation, we have access to more calorific foods and drinks : bubble tea, deep fried chicken) and less active so that’s why we are getting fatter
Yeah, even for healthy diet like the Japanese one, the younger generation has been embracing more & more component of Western's food. So the diet itself has changed, for worse.
I believe that Asian McDonald's offer rice as an option to french fries. I don't know if it's this way everywhere but I've seen it myself in a country or 2 over there.
@@naungthaw Like I said, I've been there and I saw it. That McDonald's place came with a children playground, guarded by TWO guys with M16s and wearing body armor. I am NOT kidding. And 'rice' was the better option coz the fries were thin, sick looking, greenish-yellow and cold.
My granpa generation ate rice, 2 meals if lucky, but physically: active is understatement. Swimming, catching fishes, walking kilometres daily, working in a shop (no helpers), was a normal day. Chair is a luxury 🤣. He was really really strong and healthy.
You're almost certainly correct. I used to live and work in mainland China and the only places I saw fat Chinese were larger cities. Some of that is probably due to them having money to overeat, but it's also where virtually all the fast-food restaurants are due to the money being concentrated tere. The fast-food restaurants aren't exactly cheap by Chinese standards, I could easily eat for a day or two on what most of them charged. I personally lost a ton of weight pretty much immediately after moving there both times due to the smaller serving sizes, increased walking and how hard I'd have to work to get fed with minimal language skill.
Your statement mirrors that of this presenter ... The junk food you refer to increases Insulin Resistance; Lack of Activity disallows the stored sugars to be pulled out of the cells and utilized. (You stated the premise more succinctly, but didn’t get paid for it.)
@@everybot-it That is just a small factor, if you have watched the video. Sure, brown rice is better. But not if you eat three meals a day, or don't move a lot, or are IR. Or are old... If you eat two meals a day, than brown rice can be okay, but it's not a great food because it spikes your insuline.
What you have told is absolutely true. I am from India and in the urban areas of the country, obesity has become a very common problem but yet ignored. Most ignorant people still argue that our ancestors who ate rice were skinny and slim and hence it's absolutely okay to consume carbs. They do not understand how the lifestyle of Indians have changed in the past 2 generations. We urban Indians don't even have 1/100 th of the physical activity that our grandpas and grandmas had and yet we expect that we should remain slim by eating the same type and quantity of food that they ate.
@@trucid2 Partly true. But more than oil, it is primarily the exorbitant consumption of starch coupled with a sedentary lifestyle similar to western countries that has caused obesity problem in the urban areas. In the countryside also people eat heavy starch but they have a lot of exercise and so they aren't obese. Meat consumption is still a taboo in India though it isn't based on religion.
You guys eat a lot of soybean oil and refined sugar. Particularly those street vendors. The average omega 6 to 3 ratio in body adipose for metropolitan Indians is 30-50:1. That is awful.
You are not eating the same type of food. You are eating a lot of processed foods, that didn't exist back then. Like vegetable oils, the restaurant food, Maggi stuff, everything else with added sugars
@David Ma You left out the part where Asians were working in the fields...and starving. You don't get IR when you're eating once or twice a day and a low nutrition diet.
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@malta thank you. I don't know why people are so against carbohydrates certain cultures we have our main foods and that's what makes us feel energized and healthy I've got to have my rice every dang day. 😍😍😍
Another absolutely riveting video. I'm Asian so I look back at my own family going back a couple of generations and my diet is vastly different than just 2 generations back when there was no obesity. I'm not even close to obese but I'm now definitely going to go back in time, diet wise that is!
The white rice is not the problem in China. The Chinese are turning into a junk food nation, I can see each semester, more and more students are increasing in weight. When I first came to China in 2006 there were no overweight Chinese. But each year they are straying farther and farther from their traditional diet, a huge increase in meat, processed food,candy and ice cream.
Contrary to popular believe, Ice cream will not make you gain weight. The ONLY thing that creates obesity is excess linoleic acid. Search, "Linoleic Acid- Interview with Tucker Goodrich"
@@justintowers8230 a lot of cholesterol wont do anything for most people while too little will cause a lot of problems. same as sodium. same as fat, except overly processed vegetable oils.
(For those saying its because people have become lazy) I don't own a car and walk everywhere. I lift weights 3 times a week. I got fat even keeping the same regime. Diet for weight control exercise for health. You can't out run a bad diet.
How much do you walk and do you do running? The running cuts a huge amount of calories. Especially long distances. Even guys I know who eat loads of calories every single day are skinny. Since you are doing weight lifting, you could do this. Weight lifting might have also given you muscle like fat along with body type.
Truth. I cut rice out and to get leaner and a few months later freaked out at the scales. Id lost, a LOT. Still looked in shape and people said I looked bigger, but weight was down so low I could enter top of a lower weight class lol Only thing I ate less of (near but not zero) was rice and bread.
@@SS-yj2le I build muscle quick. But at the moment I am in a crohns flare. So with the meds I can't weight train. And running is a no, no as joints are weaker whilst on them. I walk an hour plus at the moment. But used to skip rope for 30 minutes and walk 1hr plus daily. But not skip rope if I weight trained. I also have pcos. So it really.easy for me gain weight and difficult to get it off. Its not impossible just I need to be very strict with diet.
I don't think walking is gonna be enough. I walked an hour+ everyday while eating 500-1500 calories per day. Lost a couple of pounds after a couple of months.. We're all different.. Now if i were running 10 miles per day then maybe.
Thank you for this wonderfully informative and simplified explanation! ❤️ I'm Malaysian, and this is precisely what I see happening around me 😢 People are doing better economically compared to 30-40 years ago, but nutritionally we're doing the exact opposite.
It's all boiled down to prosperity!!!! I am Asian , 30 yrs ago back home, I was poor I ride my bike up 40 kilometers a day. I can't afford anything els but rice , wild green veggies make with just water and salt, fish once a week and manual labor . Today ppl do well economically , plenty of food to eat, ride motor cycle and car, machinery factory every where . That just to name a few! I move to America 30 yrs ago skinny , today FAT as heck! have plenty to eat and drive my car to every where. I am struggle but, trying my best!
Bright Mhango yes. When you are doing a lot of walking and manual labor, the rice is worked off. But when you still eat it and do less walking and labor, it starts to take a toll
@@drekberg Rice in Japan is almost as expensive as fish. US$2.25 dollar per pound. But it's not alot of rice, also some miso soup (SALTED WATER) a piece of fish. some veggies. = 700 calories. Then they fast-walk like 1 hour per day.
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I stumbled up on this video and found it interesting with my experience of the last few years. Before Covid, for a few years, I was traveling back and forth to China from the US, to the city of Shenzhen right over the border from Hong Kong. I was amazed at how super skinny everyone was and seemed to be eating all the time. A ton of white rice and noodles consumed, everything cooked in a wok with a ton of oil. My colleagues there were middle class, so not in poverty, but most of their parents had come of age during the 60's when food safety was a bigger issue. To me, the biggest thing missing from their diets was added sugar and processed foods. In the supermarkets (modern ones that look like those in the US) you seldom see any pre-packed and prepared foods. In the frozen section, the only prepared food was pork dumplings. No TV dinners, frozen burritos, etc. I bought a small pack of Oreo cookies in China and it seemed way less sweet than here in the US. I think someone coming to the US from China would say how sweet everything is over here. While fast food eating was increasing there, its nowhere near the level seen in the US. Even the small restaurants, the food seems like its made with fresh ingredients, not like these fast casual chains like Appleby's and the like. They aren't big on bread but there are a growing number of chain bakeries selling sweet baked goods. Sometimes I'd cross the border to Hong Kong for a day or two, and there was a big difference in obesity. Even though the cities are right next to each other, it seemed the long western cultural dominance had influenced the eating habits. I'd also add that general physical activity was much higher in the Chinese people I saw. The old ladies like to go dancing in the park in the evening. Having a car is still big luxury, so more walking to get around. A lot less of the couch potato lifestyle. No big answer here, just observations. I'd think the low level of processed foods is a big difference.
I spent six weeks in Laos working a couple decades ago, and my H asked why they dont eat brown rice. We were told that the white rice stores better, and we believed that rancidity would be the problem they are avoiding.
Dr. Ekberg, Thank you for your videos. I teach kids in China. Whenever we talk about food, my students say their favorite foods are either pizza, hamburgers, french fries or ice cream. I think more than rice is involved.
It’s because these are the vocabularies they know lol if you are teaching them English. I used to describe things in a oversimplified way in English when I could articulate them better.
My Chinese coworkers all ate rice 3 meals a day and were skinny. All of them (middle aged adults) were getting diabetes at higher rates than my white coworkers. Rice is the issue
Rice is like the basic of a meal (in southern China especially), most likely you don't say your favorite food is a pizza base, or plain pasta either... plus the vocabulary issue and they tend to tell you something they assume YOU are familiar with. Just a few potential reasons.
India is a sunlit equatorial country with the sweetest natural fruits in the world Sugar isn't the problem, its the refined vegetable oils and fried foods, as well as low protein diets.
The coke drinkers are youngsters. The diabetes individuals are all old and thin. It is the humongous carbs we eat. We no longer work in fields that requires that much carbs.
Its a combination of food & lifestyle. Since Indians still eat mostly homemade food, its still fine but basically there is no physical activity like it used to be. Compared to Europe indians hardly walk everyday.
My great grandparents lived a healthy 90+ years just on rice, lentils and veggies. My grandparents are 80+ years on the same kind of diet. Now my parents are almost 60 with diabetes and hypertension. My generation is suffering from weight and hormonal issues.
You cannot find brown rice in China. Processed food is still not popular in China, but you missed the key change. They have switched wholesale from healthy oils like lard to American soybean oil. Seed and Soybean oils are very inflammatory. And yes lard is healthy if not hydrogenated. In Taiwan they sometimes used coconut oil but it was hydrogenated.
They still have plenty of processed food from Hong Kong to Beijing. The fast food chains are all over the big cities, and there is actually processed food being sold in China. This is mainly a city thing but processed food is still and is in China.
I am 48 years old. Been eating rice my whole life at least once a day. I didnt gain weight nor losing weight, fit and healthy. Normally i eat rice with at least 3 dishes (vege, meat or fish or chicken and vege soup). The key is to eat moderately.
Moderation is the key. Our portion sizes have gotten larger and larger. You have to know when to put the fork down. If we go out to eat, my wife and I often split a meal.
Rice is our staple diet too, my family has had rice daily, none of us struggled with weight or major health issues. But yea we never take soda, we don’t take fast foods between meals, if we do have takeaways which is rare it is for one of the two main meals, we don’t take sugar with tea/coffee, alcohol is once every few months, no red meat, no gym workouts but we all do moderate exercise evening walks, yoga, daily. Honestly, if I skip rice I feel I am gonna end up binging on more processed foods.
I can’t control myself …. If I make rice i, I have this nice size batch in the cooker …, then I just start eating it with everything all day … before I know it , it’s all gone and I look the stay puff marshmallow man
I was working at a electronics production plant for 14yrs. Work was so hard so is gaining extra weight. 3 meals a day, morning - 2cups of rice, 1 viand, soup, coffee. Lunch- 3 cups of rice, 2 viands, soup, drinks. Supper- 2 cups of rice, 1 viand, bananas. Not to mention snack time. I'm 5ft 9", 24yrs at that time, still my weight dive down to 128 pounds, we're having like 72 hrs overtime per 15 days. That's the 2 years of work. Then after overtime reduced my weight up to 138pounds still looks skinny. Now retired at 53 I ate only a third of that diet but I weight 175pounds
Yeah, and no. "stress, abundance, alcohol, and rice" is basically what sums up life as a Japanese worker. And yet, these people are far from what you'd call obese.
My wife is Filipino and when I first met her and her family, they were all skinny inspite of eating rice at every meal. It was relatively inexpensive, but very filling. They also walked a lot and did a lot of manual labor and food was scarce. After we got married and started sending money back to the Philippines, they all got fat because they bought a multicab (small truck), had more food and started drinking soda instead of water. We also gained a lot of weight because of all the excess calories and carbs. This year we started counting calories using cronometer and cutting back on carbs and I've lost 60lbs.
Exactly it’s no mystery when we start eating more calories no matter what form it’s in and less activity we will gain weight it’s just so much easier to get a lot of calories from processed foods they Tend to be higher in calories but lower in volume so you can eat a lot more of it than fresh foods that tend to be lower in calories but bigger in bulk so it’s harder to eat a lot of calories from them
Thanks for this. I lived in Asian countries for 3 years and LUVVVVV rice, so I've been wondering to what extent I need to give it up (I did a keto diet about 10 years ago and lost 40 pounds, getting me down to a reasonable weight/size). In something like soups, or stir-fry with a very flavorful sauce, riced cauliflower works OK. But for, say, traditional Japanese food? Accept no subs!! So it looks like I can keep my rice, if only occasionally, if I do things like intermittent fasting. (I'm 70, haven't been to a doctor in over 30 years, and am finally getting healthy thanks to honest doctors like you).
Great video! My previous generation ate rice daily and they were slender but MOST of them suffered very badly with type two diabetes. My present generation are also eating rice and slender and MOST of us also have type two diabetes. A few of us are trying our best to control our diabetes by excluding rice from our diets!
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My observation is that rice is more of a side dish here in China, eaten with the main meat and vegetable dishes. Chinese people are incredibly health and food aware and tend to avoid wrong foods. Sadly, McDonald’s and KFC are considered to be special treats but are probably the least healthy of what they eat. Packaged foods and snacks have risen dramatically in the last ten years and are generally poor quality in my opinion. As they are Chinese style but using western processing methods they appear healthy when in fact they’re not. This and the rise in use of refined sugar in cooking and the rise in bakeries producing highly sweetened breads is contributing to obesity, I’m sure. But only for those who make those choices. Another major factor has been the ‘one child policy’ (recently abolished) which led to overfeeding and overprotection of the child by its parents and grandparents. Traditionally, this child would look after its parents and grandparents later in life.
150 years ago people weren’t snacking between meals at fast food outlets, nor did they have vast amounts of sugar added to bread nor their sauces nor was food deep fried as often as it is today. I doubt that there is anything wrong with either white rice or white flour except in excess quantities. The doctor should know that Correlation is not causation. The problem is excessive grain consumption themselves. Giving up whole grains eliminates all manner of bowel irritants and toxics. When I myself reduced and gave up (mostly) whole grain bread after years of use things went better. Far less wind (which is a misery that cuts into sleep). A conversation with my mother revealed that My great grandmother from North Europe where whole grain rye was normal bread even to the 1980s advised my mother to not eat no more than 2 at most 3 slices of whole grain rye bread per day. You need to eat intelligently and that is what the German, Swedish housewife did. There may be nutrients but there are also anti nutrients, irritants etc. Whole grains don’t even help constipation, that depends more on micro flora. Looking back into a mythological slim past and lauding whole grains is barking up the wrong tree, people had health problems in the past as well. 70 years of promoting whole grains on the basis of crappy epidemiological studies of Africans has done nothing. Eat whole foods is an excellent rule for foods that are not toxic uncooked. It shouldn’t apply to rice or wheat. Eat a mixture of whole grain and refined rice.
Fried food is the unhealthy food in Asia, they have poor quality oils in China. The Asians who eat rice and veg and limit their processed food and oils are still thin.
Asian don't only eat rice, they eat rice, with vegetables, green black, red lentils, curd, raw carrot and radishes and spice red chilli powder, turmeric, cumin seed . In Nepal
When I first started traveling to Rio, in the 80's before fast food was widely available, I noticed how fit the people were. By 5 years later, as fast food became more popular I noted a noticeable weight gain across the population that I observed.
In my state in India, we eat mostly a kind of parboiled rice called Rosematta rice. ( It is not brown rice, this is parboiled before being killed and retains a lot of nutrients as compared to white rice )..this rice is soaked for 1 hour in water before boiling. Once the rice is cooked ( 1 cup rice : 10-12 cups watee), the remaining water ( which is saturated with starch) is drained out completely. By cooking it this way, we can get rid of a.lot.of starch as well..In olden days this drained out starch water was used to starch clothes 😁 to make them stiff .
@@bri-manhunter2654 First thing is to stay away from processed food. Our family cooks real food from scratch. In the beginning, I am low fat and high carb, which maintained my weight pretty well. I did exercise 3 to 5 times a week and occasionally skipped one or two meals. I was able to keep my weight around 158lbs. Recent two years, I am doing a low carb diet, my weight dropped to 150 lbs and stay very stable. By the way, I am 5.11.
Holy cow! You’re almost at 200k!!!! 🔥 This video is fascinating. Watching it now with my girlfriend (Asian). We were just talking about brown vs white rice a few days ago. This video is right on time.
Thank you Dan. I mean Nick. I mean Dee Nimmin. I appreciate your support. I even got a new cell phone the other day, so I'll be checking out your channel for some great tips.
Have nothing to do with rice or fast food. Ppl live better life now and have more foods, which most time have lots of carbs. Unless you do stressful labor work, don’t need that much carbs in your daily foods.
Don't forget rice was produced in fields with more nutrient rich soils over 40 years ago and with none of the chemicals like Glyphosate that is used now to increase or maintain yields. For thousands of years, people used natural fertilizers and pest control methods which, by the way, were more labor intensive and therefore more calorie burning than methods of production today. Rice doesn't grow on nitrogen alone. If you deplete all the minerals in the soil or bind them with glyphosate which was first patented as an industrial chelator, the rice changes; it becomes less nutritious and more toxic.
Love your videos Dr Ekberg! Thank you 🙏. I am from Iran and we grew up on rice. I also raised my children on our traditional cuisine. Both of my parents have type 2 diabetes and I am prediabetic even though we didn’t eat junk foods, or processed foods or even drank soda. We only ate what we thought was healthy home made, balanced meals. But because we ate rice or pasta with each meal and cereal for breakfast and drank skim milk with our meals as well cooked with vegetable oils, we are all sick with metabolic syndrome. We even snacked on fruit, nuts and home made muffins because we thought that was healthy. 😢
NotJo exactly! I am keto now and have been for over a year and I converted my parents and everyone I can reach. But it is very hard for people to change their habits that drastically.
The flaw I see with this is that glycemic index of a meal is from a combination of foods that you eat. Asians eat rice with fish which has omega 3 fat and protein and hence the overall glycemic index of the food is actually lower. And correlation is NOT causation. Just saying
I don't know Japan or Korea. But for Chinese, the only reason people are used to be slim is poverty. If you learned Chinese history, fat is considered as wealth in ancient China. If you have ample Chinese cuisine supply, you can be really fat. All those comment mentions KFC and Mc in China just ignores the fact.
@@alanchen8272 I doubt it is as fatty in the really traditional way. But one point to make, while being overweight is definitely unhealthy, being super skinny and small(undeveloped) as an average person 100 ago in China is not better, in my opinion.
@@yilingxu964 you can be skinny or obese and malnourished and poisoned. Theres increasing evidence that chemicals like Glyphosate may be the underlying cause of diseases like dementia, Parkinson's, Autism, etc. Eat with that in mind. All the food a hundred years ago was essentially organic. That's not so now.
healthy simple life I eat mostly meat, eggs and fat (from animals) and i usually eat one big meal a day (around 5 or 6pm) . I sometimes do extended fasts of 72h or 48h for healing ( i was diagnosed with diabetes type 2) i have around 20 kilos more to lose. My blood sugar ranges 80 to 90 fasted and up to 100 fed. My bloodpressure is steady at 110/70. I very seldom eat vegetables maybe some lettuce when i buy a burger from fast food(bunless ofcourse) and pickles. When doing a long fast i drink salted water to keep off headaches. When i refeed i dont do it 'gently' i eat my meat as I want. Might not work for everyone. Im lucky it does on me
As an Indian, this is my 2 cents. I grew up in a big city in India and walked a lot. My parents still don’t own a car and make time to walk once or twice a day outdoors. I grew up eating rice or rice based dishes 3 times a day. My parents only took us out to eat maybe once a month or two. I weighed pretty much 100 lbs from the time I was 15 years old all the way through my college days. Then I started working, made my own money and put on 30 odd pounds in a matter of a year. Why? Suddenly I was sitting a lot even though I started in a sales job which took me all over the city. Not to mention eating out for convenience. Now I am in the US and thanks to the incredibly sedentary lifestyle here, I have really struggled to lose that weight. Unfortunately I have convinced myself eating the food of my native land is not good for me because my lifestyle does not let me lose weight if I keep eating rice.
I think rice is not as bad as refined sugar, if you walk a lot to school or work, or exercise regularly, most ppl will not overeat rice because it fills you up quickly, unlike donuts, cookies, boba milk tea and etc.
Agreed. You can eat donut by itself, but rice is always paired with fibrous veggies and sometimes protein, thereby lowering the average glycemic index. The body only recognizes the effect from the combination of foods that are eaten together.
I will never quit eating rice, just have small portion like 1/4 a cup and you will be fine , and just make sure you are doing physical activities daily, rice isn’t bad
@@ningbutsakorn yeah but your metabolism is probably way different than people here in america, alot of people here get fat off of sugar and carbs, while others (mostly Asians) can digest it efficiently
South East Asian here,over here we eat rice for breakfast,lunch and dinner with lots of fresh fruits, vegetables and meat that we raised ourselves,we are rural folks and we do lots of physical activities, and some do not... Don't worry,rice is not EVIL.. it gives you strength,rice eaters have strong body and in my observation they don't get fatigued easily and rarely gets sick..eat more rice.
Great video Dr. Ekberg. I did some research too. As it turns out, in 1966, the sugar industry paid Harvard researchers $50,000 to craft a study that states sugar-carbs are good for nutrition and fats were largely responsible for heart disease - diabetes. The study was so convincing, it was printed in the prestigious New England journal of medicine in 1967. One of the scientists who was paid by the sugar industry was D. Mark Hegsted, who went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, where in 1977 he helped draft the forerunner to the federal government’s dietary guidelines. The “food pyramid”. Another was Dr. Fredrick J. Stare, the chairman of Harvard’s nutrition department. In a statement responding to the JAMA journal report, the Sugar Association said that the 1967 review was published at a time when medical journals did not typically require researchers to disclose funding sources. The New England Journal of Medicine did not begin to require financial disclosures until 1984. The industry “should have exercised greater transparency in all of its research activities,” the Sugar Association statement said. Even so, it defended industry-funded research as playing an important and informative role in scientific debate. It said that several decades of research had concluded that sugar “does not have a unique role in heart disease.” The revelations are important because the debate about the relative harms of sugar and saturated fat continues today, Dr. Glantz said. For many decades, health officials encouraged Americans to reduce their fat intake, which led many people to consume low-fat, high-sugar foods that some experts now blame for fueling the obesity crisis. “It was a very smart thing the sugar industry did, because review papers, especially if you get them published in a very prominent journal, tend to shape the overall scientific discussion,” he said. Dr. Hegsted used his research to influence the government’s dietary recommendations, which emphasized saturated fat as a driver of heart disease while largely characterizing sugar as empty calories linked to tooth decay. Today, the saturated fat warnings remain a cornerstone of the government’s dietary guidelines, though in recent years the American Heart Association, the World Health Organization and other health authorities have also begun to warn that too much added sugar may increase cardiovascular disease risk. Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided “compelling evidence” that the sugar industry had initiated research “expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.” “I think it’s appalling,” she said. “You just never see examples that are this blatant.” Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the nutrition department at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, said that academic conflict-of-interest rules had changed significantly since the 1960s, but that the industry papers were a reminder of “why research should be supported by public funding rather than depending on industry funding. Just my opinion but perhaps D. Mark Hegsted can be characterized as the most prolific “cereal k1ller” in history. 😉 . Its all about money at the expense of our health.
There is so much proof of corruption in the scientific world, in particular the medical world that it has got to a point where we can no longer believe anything we are told. Modern science is just as sick as we are.
robinhood 46 Americans spend more money on medical care than other country but we are the unhealthiest people in the world. Think about why . 90% of pre-diabetics will develop full blown T2 diabetes but the doctors dont tell them to get a glucose meter until they have full blown diabetes. Think about why they do that. There is a reason the CDC is doing nothing to warn the 100 million pre-diabetics in the United States . Most people diagnosed with T2 are between the ages of 45 - 60. One last fun fact, T2 diabetes takes 10 years off your life on average. I no longer trust the medical profession or the gov.
If you look at the Sugar Industry, you will see that it is filled with ruthless criminals. And it's been that way, for generations (and probably, since Colonial times).
That was how ghee and coconut oil - 2 nutritious fats - were consigned to the bins. Thank goodness, we now are more aware of conflicts of interest in research. It is not for nothing that ghee from grass-fed cows crucial for bone health, continues to be taken in some Indian homes although western marketing and industry sponsored research have converted hundreds of millions of Indians to low quality vegetable oils.
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Summary: Life was hard in occupied Norway during WWII, but the occupation had one surprising result: deaths from heart attacks dropped precipitously, because Norwegians ate less ANIMAL fat, ---Meat, poultry, dairy.smoked less and were more physically active. Now, in the last half of the 20th century, Norway has seen a similar precipitous drop in heart attack deaths, but this time due to focused prevention programs and improved treatment, according to new research.
This is true. I am from China. In my opinion, another major contributing factor is cooking oil. Now vegetable oil is very affordable in China right now, and people in China consume a lot more vegetable oil than before.
@@beautiful20106to a large extent, but if you were born and grew up in a sucking environment, you would see that the root cause is the system, that is poisoning, and today many people are trying to break away from the gov control..it's not that simple black and white
According to a statement by the American Diabetes Association, “…there is little evidence that total carbohydrate is associated with the development of type 2 diabetes. Rather, a stronger association has been observed between total fat and saturated fat and type 2 diabetes
Here in Thailand, it's the vegetable oils, used in all cooked foods at restaurants and street vendors. The increase in Western fast food hasn't helped either. The other big problem is all the cafes and bakeries that have popped up in the last 10 years selling desserts and sweet drinks. Sad.
Rice is fine if you are active and not eating too much overall. My mother’s family is Chinese and we visited every 2 years between 1993 - 2009. Things changed so rapidly at that time so the changes were very noticeable. I remember distinctly thinking people looked healthier and stronger towards the late 90s as the economy was picking up and people had more to eat. There was also suddenly a lot more cars and road infrastructure. Then I remember seeing the first Starbucks. Then a lot more fast food outlets. Gradually started seeing overweight people but mostly the younger generation, probably because they eat more junk food. My aunt, uncle and grandparents are all slim and healthy and eat rice with every meal. And those meals can be big!! For myself personally carbs are fine if I am active, I am in lockdown and have a sedentary job at present though and cutting back carbs seems to help maintain my ideal weight. Junk food, sugar etc are much bigger enemies than rice imo.
I know a lot of people's that work out doors for 12 to 14 hours a day in Florida and they are fat. It's more about the quality of the food you eat and the portions.
@@trevorpeluso-weaver1499 there are people who choose “ eat to live“, and those who choose “live to eat“. we know what group those people you described belong to. I'd rather be in a country that allows me to choose!
@@queenmama8024 Westerners believe that until recent decades most mainland Chinese were agricultural workers. I don't know how true that is, but there's nothing racist about it.
i was wondering why my grandparents and parents were slim even when eating rice, bcos the did a lot of manual work at the kitchen and were active. This is a very good explanation! Thanks!
Something went wrong. Western fast food invaded Asia. Obesity was the biggest rider of fast food. I am Asian and I eat white rice twice a day and avoid fast food. I am 76 years and no health issue whatsoever.
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As an Asian, it was so hard to stay on keto at first because *Rice is Life* 😂 but I got rid of it. However, I have a toddler so I was really conflicted on what to feed him so I feed him brown rice instead of the usual white.
Brown rice is extremely difficult to digest, I wouldn't feed it to a child. You have to soak, sprout, or ferment it first to get any nutrition out of it. White rice is a lot safer, as long as you get your nutrients from other foods. There are also UA-cam videos on how to soak or sprout brown rice if you want.
So I was nearly 400 lbs in 2016 after having my daughter and I can’t exercise due to multiple problems with my back. My Filipino husband insisted we start eating more like he did growing up and we did. I’ve lost over 120 lbs in two years eating rice, veggies and meat. We also switched to using butter. Real butter. No exercise. My back issues have improved and I can move more. We eat rice nearly everyday. The major key is everything in moderation. These meals helped me FEEL FULL while eating significantly less than other foods. I’ve begun eating portion sizes instead of eating 3 portions to myself. I still have bad days and have noted that when we haven’t had rice that week/day I tend to have a worse time staying away from any and all food.
Too many expecting moms eat fast food and desserts ... those are empty foods (no nutritional value causing ur body to get weak and so they overeat). Ppl need to eat real food and workout before each meal.
peachees sorry for late reply, I ate mostly subs with wraps while I was pregnant and I love vegetables so I put a lot on my subs at home. We were too broke to afford fast food.
I was poor and skinny when I was in Vietnam. I have been living in the U.S for 12 years, and I am still skinny because I am still poor. No matter high quality or low quality foods, they still cost. I eat less, so I spend less money on food. I do one or 2 meals/ day. No snacking or any kind of junk food. Because I am poor, I stay healthy and young forever (LOL) 😂. I am ~36 years old, but I look like 26 years old.
I fully agree with you doc. I still remember when I was young, I always help my dad in the rice paddy farm. We work really hard to put food on the table. In that time we only can harvest the rice once a year or the fastest variant was 6 month. Those harvested rice most of the time is not enough to eat till the next harvest season. because our farm is very small land. And in other side to grow that rice we work manually on that land all day long. You can imagine the amount of energy we spent. This time, everything is change. I work in the tourism industry. My one month Salary enough to put food on the table for 6 months 3 time meals, for the entire family. any time they want. We eat more than and spend less energy then when I was young.
Quiet similar to how people here in Europe in the alpine regions ate and lived, only one or two generations ago. Hard physical labor on often mountainous farmland or in the forest for wood harvesting. And the staple food consisted basically of flour, lard, bread, fatty meat, milk and cheese. Often enough just flour, lard (for a dish called Sterz) and some milk. But even if you look at the cities it was not all hunky dory. Vienna had its last hunger riot in 1907 (in peace times), so many if not most people rarely had enough to eat.
now youre older you cant even work as much and same intensity as you were young, metabolism changed also drastically with age... older people fresh food stay in their body much longer until it is consumed and the energy you get from food as older people is much lower so theres plenty of reasons
My wife went to visit her relatives in Korea for 1 month. She came back 20 lbs lighter!! Lots of walking an eating fresh home cooking at her relatives. The soda cans such as coke are the smaller variety. They use real sugar and is also less sweet compared to the American versions. There are a lot of ingredients that are banned.
Every time I visit relatives in France, I come back weighing less and with a renewed zest for that lifestyle. After a couple of weeks, though, I fall back into old habits. 😏
@@Leucci11 Ah Shut up. That's what people addicted to food use to threaten people who are trying to help them. Don't threaten people into silence like a coward.
@@kurapika9691 you're the only one triggered by the truth. balance is key to a healthy life in general. stress is one major factor when it comes to weigh gain/loss because it affects eating and sleeping patterns etc. nothing to be mad about.
Another factor not mentioned is that there was a huge shift from rural to urban during the last 100 years. Rural inhabitants living in "poverty" have a much higher consumption of locally grown organic green vegetables to eat with the rice. Organically grown greens are scarce in the cities (because of transportation and spoilage problems). If everyone could only eat what they grew in their backyard, metabolic disease would be eliminated within a couple of months.... worldwide. It would also solve the earth's human overpopulation problem.
@@YeshuaKingMessiah I get where you're coming from but not every inch of land has to be populated with people. The earth is supposed to have vasts empty spaces so it can regenerate. If humans filled every single inch of land on earth, how is earth supposed to recuperate from us taking everything from her?? We need empty spaces. Not every areas have to be fill with humans.
Terrie Smith the whole pop would fit in the state of Texas lol I dont think we re in danger of your scenario of filling every inch rofl The earth is safe from humans decimating it with simple numbers.
I’m Asian. I eat rice twice daily and I’m still skinny 😊 I stay away from western fastfood chains’ burgers & fries & soda, and very seldomly eat bread. I also hardly eat mashed potato which contain salt & butter. I stick with rice which is only cooked with wqter 😊👍
There’s nothing wrong with bread… It is a staple of life and has been so for eons. What is wrong is the amount of additives and unpronounceable ingredients that are put into so many different kinds/brands of bread these days. You can absolutely make or buy healthy bread though!
you are WRONG. mashed potato does NOT contain salt nor butter. those are ADDED i used to eat white sugar mixed with butter and white rice as a kid. mashed potatoes are just that. they are potatoes that were mashed up.
@@16-bitpower38 some people have to be difficult, I guess you are that one. Mashed potatoes are a DISH (In gastronomy is a specific food preparation). They were not referring to instructions. They are not potatoes mashed up. They are cooked potatoes that have been mashed up WITH salt, butter, milk and then usually whipped up with a mixer to add air and a fluffy texture. Many people use (especially, most every restaurant ) the flakes, dehydrated potatoes that have the butter, and milk powders already in it, you just add water. If you took a cooked potato and just mashed it up, no one would recognize it as Mash potatoes. The above comment is RIGHT.
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I was eating rice many times a day until 5 years ago, moderately active and skinny. Hardly ate any fast food at all. I didn’t snack in between meals. Then I got married to a outdoorsy guy. When we would go hiking or climbing on the way back I would get sooo hungry. I would buy McDonald’s, Popeyes, etc. Now I’m not as active but kept the junk food habits and also snack between meals. Sure enough my weight gained. I do feel that when you start exercise vigorously you better think twice about being able to keep that up. Or you’ll have to adjust your portion drastically when you stop. That’s what I learned.
I didn't change my active lifestyle when I was young. I married & started eating out a lot as a lifestyle. And always having dessert after a large restaurant meal. I was easily tempted into habitual overeating - it was fun and entertaining. Now it is hard to get back to not snacking & not eating sweet desserts!!
Thank you for talking about this. My Asian coworkers are all coming down with diabetes at much higher rates than the rest of my coworkers and it’s shocking because I thought that a rice based diet would have kept them healthier. This explains so much that the rice is now depleted of all nutrients and is now basically like eating sugar
It’s known that Asian migrants in Western countries like US have higher CV and diabetes rates because they are more exposed to and influenced by the unhealthy Western diets and reduced physical activities , even if they keep many of their eating habits like eating rice regularly. So they get diabetes NOT because they keep the old habits of eating rice, but rather, because they gained the new habits of eating junk and not exercising.
They be coming here eating all this junk food. Why not just continue esting like you do in your country? They are sick because they changed what they eat.
Asians are more prone to diabetes not because of rice, but they're genetically less muscular and prone to being "skinny-fat". Because of this, the BMI cutoffs for overweight and obese recommended by WHO are lower for Asians. For example, BMI for being overweight starts at 23 for Asians vs 25 for White and Blacks because, at BMI of just 23, Asians are already at higher risk of developing complications such as diabetes
Reminds me of how it's universally known that red meat is bad for you and causes cardiovascular disease... completely ignoring the those native African tribes that don't eat anything else than red meat and where cardiovascular disease is pretty much non-existent. It's not the red meat itself that kills you. It's the other stuff they put in there plus all the other junk you eat in addition. (The red meat might become one of the primary sources of the cardiovascular problems, but only because it has been mixed with other substances that do not belong there nor in a healthy diet. Pure red meat in itself quite demonstrably doesn't cause cardiovascular diseases.)
Native African tribes hunted or killed their own organic red meat. Not buy from supermarkets with frozen meat imported from oversea coated with persevervatives to prolong shelf life.
I really wish Dr Ekberg would have discussed the inorganic arsenic that is in rice and its effect of us eating it. Would be really interesting to hear his take on it as it's getting much worse as the planet gets more polluted.
True for the US, where rice is grown on land which used to grow cotton. Cotton farmers used a lot of arsenic pesticides. White rice is better than brown because more of the arsenic is in the outer layers.
*I like the way you balance your teachings on facts and some technicality, never going to extremes. Also showing some stats that illustrate what you're presenting. At the end we know why what's being said is being said in the first place.*
Im an asian too, i only started gaining too much weight when i started to eat a lot of fast food and junk food along with less physical activity. Now im thin again after dieting and exercising. I had to limit my junk food and fast food intake.
I remember seeing this news story in which two sisters from a Korean family were separated when they were young. One of them went to the USA. When they were adults, the Korean family flew to America to meet the one who had grown up there. The one who stayed in Korea was slim, while her sister had become obese :-(
@@agfagaevart It's difficult though, when wheat is subsidised by the government in the USA so that it's the cheapest thing to buy by far, while fruits and vegetables and healthy meats are _several times_ more expensive. Sometimes what you eat when you're financially struggling - no, it's not a choice.
I think it's also the fact that over the years they've lowered the blood sugar threshold value so that a lot more people are now considered "diabetic". And they're doing the same for everything else: cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. so that it's going to be more and more difficult to find someone technically "healthy"... and it's a good excuse to fill us up with medicines.
So the drug companies can force more people onto pills. Drug companies are a driving force in medical schools where doctors learn to read labs and prescribe drugs. Period. Gross majority of doctors can no longer perform clinical diagnostics. Western medicine does not heal unless it's basically surgery or setting bones. Healthcare doesn't exist.
I'm Asian and grew up on white jasmine rice. It was hard weaning off of rice and my kids hate brown rice so now I do a 50/50 blend of basmati rice and quinoa.
This is amazing! The title pulled me right in. It's so true: our diseases/obesity are not diseases of scarcity. they are diseases of surplus. Too much. We say everything in moderation, but we don't do it. Too much refined carbohydrates and a fast sedentary lifestyle. But thank you for this knowledge: it is turning around my own personal life in 3 weeks alone.
I'm Asian American. Former Sushi Chef for 10 years. I've eating poor complex wheat noodles and white rice mostly my entirely life. Ever since I stopped I noticed less acne breakout on my back. Now I'm staying the course on a Keto Diet along with intense workouts.
I love this video because it will explains accurately . I am Filipina, I grew up in a countryside. I worked in the rice fields. In our area , we ate polish rice or white rice 3X a day. And based on my observations, it’s rare to see people who are obese or overweight. Why? Because of poverty I mean lack of money to buy processed food . We rarely even eat red meat ( pork or beef ) . So we ate vegs or fish . So far we are lean . I am 33 years old now . I moved here in Germany and most processed food is around the corner . I was 52 kgs and my height is 168cm and now I am 62 kgs but my doctor told me that everything is normal. Today I am still eating white rice but I mix it with homemade kimchi . And I enjoy it .
Search, "Linoleic Acid- Interview with Tucker Goodrich" Stop eating wheat and refined seed oils and you'll slough off weight. I've lost 14 pounds in 2 weeks and I'm still eating carbs. Keto works because we stop ingesting linoleic acids, not because of ketosis. Triggering autophagy with intermittent fasting is also important, but that will only control the speed at which you lose fat. If you correct the diet, the body will take care of the rest.
The major thing that changed is the introduction of polyunsaturated seed oils - just as that is the major thing that has changed in our diets over the whole world
@@stargazerbird totally disagree - various indigenous and traditional peoples were eating far higher calories than we do - and calories anyway are not the same as energy - some foods will directly interfere with and lower thyroid hormone, interfere with the electron transport chain in the mitochondria, and lower metabolic rate, and other foods don’t. The PUFA are well known for oxidized damage at the mitochondrial level and causing liver problems which is where thyroid hormones are activated - and they do this on many other levels as well
Spoiler alert: it's not the rice but US fast food and processed food products, together with the habit of drowning kids in coke. Plus, "coffee" there is some sugary liquid, not real coffee. People think they're drinking coffee. Another issue is that the Philippines are historically a sugar cane producing nation. Cuisine is fairly sweet.
Nice video. This is a common discussion among the older people in my Ancestral village. We still eat unpolished rice. But as an occasional delicacy, not as a staple. Polished rice is ubiquitous and affordable. Nowadays we are returning back to millets from other food grains. These have low calorific value compared to rice and have higher fiber and mineral content. The main hurdle is the rediscovery of recipes that use staples other than rice or wheat. These millets also required lesser inputs like water, fertilizers and pesticides. I am very optimistic. We humans posses high plasticity. Once we are convinced of a problem, we will surely solve it. This video is a great exercise in conceptualizing the problem and conveying it's gravity.
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Thank Dr. Ekberg! As always very good information. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
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Dr.Ekberg the most worst point you didn't mention - the back of white rice packets (especially on the giant Indian basmasti rice bags) they actually write its approved for diabetics!)
A real eye opener of a video.
Along with brown rice ancient Indians used to eat millets wjich are complex carbs
@@drekberg Thanks a lot Dr., it's easy to assimilate all the necessary information you shared to us. More valuable videos please
I'm Asian. My grandparents were very healthy and lived very long. Their lifestyle was very different so we cannot consider
Rice eating only. They ate rice, they used coconut milk, coconut oil, fresh fruits and vegetables. They used herbs to spice their food in every meal and got some natural micro-nuterients. They drank herbal teas every evening with honey or juggary, and never used white sugar. They woke up early in the morning, walk to the rice fields to work, or bicycled to the work place, or walked to the bus station to take public transportation, and did the same on the way back home. My grandparents lived in a tropical country with 80% humidity but sunshine throughout the year, so they used body energy in sweating too. My mom said the that everybody went to bed around 8pm and woke up at 4am. So they had a good 8hr sleep. So it is not just the rice they ate made them.healthy, it is the whole lifestyle.
What is juggary?
I need me some juggary. After I figure out what it is.
@@PaPaWizdom It should be Jaggery
@@jndking9419 jaggery
Absolutely!!
Poor people were doing involuntary intermittent fasting their whole life.
I escaped from the medieval, agrarian hellhole to arrive in America, only to find out the “lifestyle“ i fled from has been repackaged as IF, “keto“ and “paleo“ and something everybody must move towards 🤣😂
@@HEALTHANDWEALTHCHANNEL-h6o lol that's funny
Yes and there are a lot of underreported poor, unemployed poor who don’t fit on the paradigm that poverty has diminished. There are other factors in mass production of processed trash foods that would explain the obesity, insulin resistance issue. The gap between rich and poor has widened. Sure we aren’t living in the feudal age but his formula of poverty is off.
There area lot of fatties living well below the poverty level
@@rixietaymikoeay2413 Emphasis of my sentence on "were". (Pre-industrialization) Poor people actually eat more calories than wealthy people on average now. Carbs/sugar in general are much cheaper than protein and fat.
I have said for many years, that the United States is the best in the world at processing food. I didn’t realize until recently that this a curse not a blessing.
Unfortunately you are correct. Now the rest of the world is learning how to do it well.
But NOT Statin drugs, HFCS and MSG. These are originally invented by Japanese.
Does arsenic from all that rice cause weight loss?
Yes and corporate greed will never allow this problem to resolve. Its goimg to come down to individual discipline to stay lean and healthy.
Exactly vegan products are even worse too many faux variations of meat &cheeses.
There was a great show on PBS about some families trying to replicate the homestead experience of the 1800s west. One guy was freaking out thinking there was something wrong with him as he was getting really skinny. The doctor rides up (horse and buggy, of course), examines him and pronounces he's fine, and that being that skinny was the norm back then. Reality check.
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I dont care what they eat. I just dont want China buying our farmland. Stay out of our country!
@@sandrawamerdam2219 non sequitur much
Everyone looking like Abraham Lincoln back then
That hollow face
You rarely see a chubby person in old photos
Poisons. Chemicals. Not diet, just... the absence of poisoning.
My grandfather lived till 97. He ate white rice three times a day. But he walked a lot everyday. He was very active. He was slim and healthy. I was a chubby kid. Because I loved coke and orange juice.
Yes, I am from Assam and we all eat rice three times a day, but still most of us are not fat...
Now, u can drink sodas or coffee everyday. You will not get fat if you replace the meals with your drinks. All about the calories intake folks. U will die fast if u pick this type of diet. Lol
@@zonakmahanta there is what we call "skinny fat". Go get your liver checked
@@olderthanyoucali8512 fruit is deadly! Full of sugars
@@troytruong8246 bulls%%T. Not all calories are the same.
I am Japanese, from Okinawa, which is one of World's Blue Zones, with longest life in the world. We traditional mostly eat white rice, with many green vegetables, roots, sweet potato and yam. Sometimes eat natural meat, but mostly plants. My grandparents was centenarian. We are slim body and active exercise. But more teenager are fast food so less healthy.
you guys have been eating a lot of pork but after world war eating more plants and sweet potatoes due to lack of pig supply
Pl let know your workouts in full. Need a routine to follow.
I was a military baby and was born in Okinawa Tokyo-Japan. Perhaps one day I will visit.
You are just like mr. Miagi!!!
Do you eat many dairy products, like butter?
As someone who spends a lot of time in Asia the last 30 years ,
Diets in Asia have changed dramatically, far more western style meals now , it’s common to see asians drinking soft drinks, eating western style fast food , far more sugar in their diets now .
It’s happened quickly, you very rarely saw it 20 years ago
Far more protein and fats
@@OrbitalTrails-x5s I think it’s more the sugar , with the extra insulin they are losing their fast metabolism
@@camwells9726Dietary fat covers the insulin receptors causing a spike in insulin causing weight gain.
@@OrbitalTrails-x5s why are people on primal type diets very lean ? I think the combination is where the problem lies
I’m on a high quality fat diet but monitor my carbs , in my 60s with a six pack
Asians have always eaten a lot of fat , they eat a lot of pork
I wonder if anyone has done a study on the correlation between the spread of western fast food/junk food in a country and that country's obesity level.
I remember my grandmother who had cooked rice all her life (ever since she was 12) several times a week until she was in her 60s. One day as she was cooking the dish she had cooked for several decades she said “oh no, they changed the rice. This rice is brittle and has a terrible texture, plus no smell. They definitely changed it.” The woman knew her stuff. And she was right.
There's different types of rice though; some has alot of smell. Most rice at the reg grocery store tastes terrible though.
Yeah they "enriched" it hahahaha
Here in Tokyo ( Japan ), most people are skinny despite eating at least 3 bowls full of rice everyday.
Its probably because in here, people walk everywhere,or cycling.
Exactly what my sister told me you guys eat small portions and always walk everywhere especically in japan
yess you guys are very active that wayy so lose calories too. healthy and fit
Yea but three really small bowls
@@TheSeanpatrickobrien was just about to say that lol
plus they eat tsukemono with every meal, stimulate their heat shock proteins with daily hot baths, and they drink rokucha 'green tea'.... i moved to tokyo 20 years ago, never had a problem maintaining weight here.
As an Asian from a developing country, I can easily explain the reason why.
Back in my father’s generation, people only ate rice, not a lot of meat, a small portion of meal, a lot of labour work and they walked everywhere instead of driving.
And now, my generation, we have access to more calorific foods and drinks : bubble tea, deep fried chicken) and less active so that’s why we are getting fatter
and lot of fast food
Sounds about right
I agree. People used to think even having a whole broiled fish was special. A very different time and different lifestyle.
Deep fried chicken mmm.
Yeah, even for healthy diet like the Japanese one, the younger generation has been embracing more & more component of Western's food.
So the diet itself has changed, for worse.
Or it could be that we are putting up McDonald’s on every corner and mall in Asia
And dont forget the thumb enima that is widely ignored by weight loss enthusiast and experts.
I believe that Asian McDonald's offer rice as an option to french fries. I don't know if it's this way everywhere but I've seen it myself in a country or 2 over there.
Darren Keathley NO,MACCAS IS EXPENSIVE
@@arthdenton nah. they don't. nobody eat burger with rice.
@@naungthaw Like I said, I've been there and I saw it. That McDonald's place came with a children playground, guarded by TWO guys with M16s and wearing body armor. I am NOT kidding. And 'rice' was the better option coz the fries were thin, sick looking, greenish-yellow and cold.
My granpa generation ate rice, 2 meals if lucky, but physically: active is understatement. Swimming, catching fishes, walking kilometres daily, working in a shop (no helpers), was a normal day. Chair is a luxury 🤣. He was really really strong and healthy.
I still think it’s the increase in junk food, all the sugary drinks and the invention of TV.
You're almost certainly correct. I used to live and work in mainland China and the only places I saw fat Chinese were larger cities. Some of that is probably due to them having money to overeat, but it's also where virtually all the fast-food restaurants are due to the money being concentrated tere. The fast-food restaurants aren't exactly cheap by Chinese standards, I could easily eat for a day or two on what most of them charged.
I personally lost a ton of weight pretty much immediately after moving there both times due to the smaller serving sizes, increased walking and how hard I'd have to work to get fed with minimal language skill.
Your statement mirrors that of this presenter ... The junk food you refer to increases Insulin Resistance; Lack of Activity disallows the stored sugars to be pulled out of the cells and utilized. (You stated the premise more succinctly, but didn’t get paid for it.)
Good guess, but the change from brown to white rice is still relevant.
@@everybot-it Perhaps, but dismissing the other factors is very misleading
@@everybot-it That is just a small factor, if you have watched the video. Sure, brown rice is better. But not if you eat three meals a day, or don't move a lot, or are IR. Or are old... If you eat two meals a day, than brown rice can be okay, but it's not a great food because it spikes your insuline.
What you have told is absolutely true. I am from India and in the urban areas of the country, obesity has become a very common problem but yet ignored. Most ignorant people still argue that our ancestors who ate rice were skinny and slim and hence it's absolutely okay to consume carbs. They do not understand how the lifestyle of Indians have changed in the past 2 generations. We urban Indians don't even have 1/100 th of the physical activity that our grandpas and grandmas had and yet we expect that we should remain slim by eating the same type and quantity of food that they ate.
Have cheap vegetable oils made it into the Indian diet?
@@trucid2 Partly true. But more than oil, it is primarily the exorbitant consumption of starch coupled with a sedentary lifestyle similar to western countries that has caused obesity problem in the urban areas. In the countryside also people eat heavy starch but they have a lot of exercise and so they aren't obese. Meat consumption is still a taboo in India though it isn't based on religion.
You guys eat a lot of soybean oil and refined sugar. Particularly those street vendors. The average omega 6 to 3 ratio in body adipose for metropolitan Indians is 30-50:1. That is awful.
@@aj_actuarial_ca Agree on ur points but no we don't have any taboos for meat here. KFC is literally a favourite here
You are not eating the same type of food. You are eating a lot of processed foods, that didn't exist back then. Like vegetable oils, the restaurant food, Maggi stuff, everything else with added sugars
Can’t exercise your way out of a bad diet
The major problems are still exercises and highly processed food. When Asians worked more on the field, eating rice is totally fine.
@David Ma You left out the part where Asians were working in the fields...and starving. You don't get IR when you're eating once or twice a day and a low nutrition diet.
Bubble Gum Michael Phelps can lol
Exercise will improve insulin sensitivity, but it only goes so far..
NotJo nothing but meat foods ?
Thanks!
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When I eat rice, I don’t want to touch biscuits or other sweet things, but when I stop eating rice, I start craving sweets. So for me, rice is better.
Same here for me
@@GiangHoang-bh7jx me too
Agreed. Without rice and lentils I don't fill i have eaten at all. Us asian can't survive on berries. We need our wheat and rice.
@malta thank you. I don't know why people are so against carbohydrates certain cultures we have our main foods and that's what makes us feel energized and healthy I've got to have my rice every dang day.
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Amen! No rice, no life, rice is life
Another absolutely riveting video. I'm Asian so I look back at my own family going back a couple of generations and my diet is vastly different than just 2 generations back when there was no obesity. I'm not even close to obese but I'm now definitely going to go back in time, diet wise that is!
The white rice is not the problem in China. The Chinese are turning into a junk food nation, I can see each semester, more and more students are increasing in weight. When I first came to China in 2006 there were no overweight Chinese. But each year they are straying farther and farther from their traditional diet, a huge increase in meat, processed food,candy and ice cream.
Do you live there?
It's like I was, I was a skinny kid and then video games then Hot Pockets, mainly the sedentary lifestyle
yes eating a whole ton of meat as a carnivore diet isnt ideal either. stuffing your face with cholestoral and sat fat can induce IR.
Contrary to popular believe, Ice cream will not make you gain weight. The ONLY thing that creates obesity is excess linoleic acid.
Search, "Linoleic Acid- Interview with Tucker Goodrich"
@@justintowers8230 a lot of cholesterol wont do anything for most people while too little will cause a lot of problems. same as sodium. same as fat, except overly processed vegetable oils.
(For those saying its because people have become lazy)
I don't own a car and walk everywhere. I lift weights 3 times a week.
I got fat even keeping the same regime.
Diet for weight control exercise for health.
You can't out run a bad diet.
How much do you walk and do you do running? The running cuts a huge amount of calories. Especially long distances. Even guys I know who eat loads of calories every single day are skinny. Since you are doing weight lifting, you could do this. Weight lifting might have also given you muscle like fat along with body type.
Truth. I cut rice out and to get leaner and a few months later freaked out at the scales. Id lost, a LOT. Still looked in shape and people said I looked bigger, but weight was down so low I could enter top of a lower weight class lol Only thing I ate less of (near but not zero) was rice and bread.
@@SS-yj2le I build muscle quick. But at the moment I am in a crohns flare. So with the meds I can't weight train. And running is a no, no as joints are weaker whilst on them.
I walk an hour plus at the moment.
But used to skip rope for 30 minutes and walk 1hr plus daily. But not skip rope if I weight trained.
I also have pcos. So it really.easy for me gain weight and difficult to get it off.
Its not impossible just I need to be very strict with diet.
I don't think walking is gonna be enough. I walked an hour+ everyday while eating 500-1500 calories per day. Lost a couple of pounds after a couple of months.. We're all different.. Now if i were running 10 miles per day then maybe.
Interesting. I've also heard that 80% is diet and 20% is exercises. In my case when I started exercising my weight stayed the same.
Thank you for this wonderfully informative and simplified explanation! ❤️ I'm Malaysian, and this is precisely what I see happening around me 😢
People are doing better economically compared to 30-40 years ago, but nutritionally we're doing the exact opposite.
Hey fellow Malaysian!
It's all boiled down to prosperity!!!! I am Asian , 30 yrs ago back home, I was poor I ride my bike up 40 kilometers a day. I can't afford anything els but rice , wild green veggies make with just water and salt, fish once a week and manual labor . Today ppl do well economically , plenty of food to eat, ride motor cycle and car, machinery factory every where . That just to name a few!
I move to America 30 yrs ago skinny , today FAT as heck! have plenty to eat and drive my car to every where. I am struggle but, trying my best!
Thank you Tammy Nguyen. So now that you are prosperous, you can buy quality food and be prosperous and skinny.😄
Tammy Nguyen 😂😂😂 I’m so sorry but that’s America for ya! Your rice needs to be real like in Asia ours here is gmo which is terrible.
explain African Obesity, then.
Bright Mhango yes. When you are doing a lot of walking and manual labor, the rice is worked off. But when you still eat it and do less walking and labor, it starts to take a toll
@@drekberg Rice in Japan is almost as expensive as fish. US$2.25 dollar per pound. But it's not alot of rice, also some miso soup (SALTED WATER) a piece of fish. some veggies. = 700 calories. Then they fast-walk like 1 hour per day.
I just LOVE it when you do case studies. That way , my understanding of the subject sinks in deeper and I hope so with everyone else
Thank you Salamander33. I really appreciate your feedback and so glad that you liked it. The purpose of my channel is to explain things better than other channels and help people understand the principles. Comments like yours makes it all worthwhile.
He does case studies because he can point to specific examples and ignore others to prove what he wants.
I stumbled up on this video and found it interesting with my experience of the last few years. Before Covid, for a few years, I was traveling back and forth to China from the US, to the city of Shenzhen right over the border from Hong Kong.
I was amazed at how super skinny everyone was and seemed to be eating all the time. A ton of white rice and noodles consumed, everything cooked in a wok with a ton of oil. My colleagues there were middle class, so not in poverty, but most of their parents had come of age during the 60's when food safety was a bigger issue.
To me, the biggest thing missing from their diets was added sugar and processed foods. In the supermarkets (modern ones that look like those in the US) you seldom see any pre-packed and prepared foods. In the frozen section, the only prepared food was pork dumplings. No TV dinners, frozen burritos, etc. I bought a small pack of Oreo cookies in China and it seemed way less sweet than here in the US. I think someone coming to the US from China would say how sweet everything is over here.
While fast food eating was increasing there, its nowhere near the level seen in the US. Even the small restaurants, the food seems like its made with fresh ingredients, not like these fast casual chains like Appleby's and the like. They aren't big on bread but there are a growing number of chain bakeries selling sweet baked goods.
Sometimes I'd cross the border to Hong Kong for a day or two, and there was a big difference in obesity. Even though the cities are right next to each other, it seemed the long western cultural dominance had influenced the eating habits.
I'd also add that general physical activity was much higher in the Chinese people I saw. The old ladies like to go dancing in the park in the evening. Having a car is still big luxury, so more walking to get around. A lot less of the couch potato lifestyle.
No big answer here, just observations. I'd think the low level of processed foods is a big difference.
I spent six weeks in Laos working a couple decades ago, and my H asked why they dont eat brown rice. We were told that the white rice stores better, and we believed that rancidity would be the problem they are avoiding.
When you write too long it turns me off. and it keeps it from getting read by most readers. You got to control the length.
Dr. Ekberg, Thank you for your videos. I teach kids in China. Whenever we talk about food, my students say their favorite foods are either pizza, hamburgers, french fries or ice cream. I think more than rice is involved.
Ha...Ha. WOW. Intersting.
It’s because these are the vocabularies they know lol if you are teaching them English. I used to describe things in a oversimplified way in English when I could articulate them better.
@@姜维-r9g True.
My Chinese coworkers all ate rice 3 meals a day and were skinny. All of them (middle aged adults) were getting diabetes at higher rates than my white coworkers. Rice is the issue
Rice is like the basic of a meal (in southern China especially), most likely you don't say your favorite food is a pizza base, or plain pasta either... plus the vocabulary issue and they tend to tell you something they assume YOU are familiar with. Just a few potential reasons.
Coincidentally it's when coke and other high sugar foods entered india
India is a sunlit equatorial country with the sweetest natural fruits in the world
Sugar isn't the problem, its the refined vegetable oils and fried foods, as well as low protein diets.
Coke is expensive in India
The coke drinkers are youngsters.
The diabetes individuals are all old and thin. It is the humongous carbs we eat. We no longer work in fields that requires that much carbs.
Its a combination of food & lifestyle. Since Indians still eat mostly homemade food, its still fine but basically there is no physical activity like it used to be. Compared to Europe indians hardly walk everyday.
The same time Indians continued eating farmer sized portions of rice yet started getting office jobs sitting all day. Lots of variables.
My great grandparents lived a healthy 90+ years just on rice, lentils and veggies. My grandparents are 80+ years on the same kind of diet. Now my parents are almost 60 with diabetes and hypertension. My generation is suffering from weight and hormonal issues.
Meat and western processed foods have increased considerably around the globe
@@BigRedRaider Meat is superfood, don t confuse processed garbage with a nutrition powerhouse that grass-fed meat is
@@billyschaller2106 Growth hormones are banned in the EU
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She said "grass-fed". As the good God intended herbivorous mammals to be made of.
Meat is murder.
You cannot find brown rice in China. Processed food is still not popular in China, but you missed the key change. They have switched wholesale from healthy oils like lard to American soybean oil. Seed and Soybean oils are very inflammatory. And yes lard is healthy if not hydrogenated. In Taiwan they sometimes used coconut oil but it was hydrogenated.
They still have plenty of processed food from Hong Kong to Beijing. The fast food chains are all over the big cities, and there is actually processed food being sold in China. This is mainly a city thing but processed food is still and is in China.
I am 48 years old. Been eating rice my whole life at least once a day. I didnt gain weight nor losing weight, fit and healthy. Normally i eat rice with at least 3 dishes (vege, meat or fish or chicken and vege soup). The key is to eat moderately.
I eat the same way 🙂
Moderation is the key. Our portion sizes have gotten larger and larger. You have to know when to put the fork down. If we go out to eat, my wife and I often split a meal.
Rice is our staple diet too, my family has had rice daily, none of us struggled with weight or major health issues. But yea we never take soda, we don’t take fast foods between meals, if we do have takeaways which is rare it is for one of the two main meals, we don’t take sugar with tea/coffee, alcohol is once every few months, no red meat, no gym workouts but we all do moderate exercise evening walks, yoga, daily. Honestly, if I skip rice I feel I am gonna end up binging on more processed foods.
I can’t control myself …. If I make rice i, I have this nice size batch in the cooker …, then I just start eating it with everything all day … before I know it , it’s all gone and I look the stay puff marshmallow man
Surprise surprise, "moderation". Hmmm, who would've expected lol
Not rice, more like a combination of the following: stress, abundance, alcohol, fast food popping up everywhere.
I was working at a electronics production plant for 14yrs. Work was so hard so is gaining extra weight. 3 meals a day, morning - 2cups of rice, 1 viand, soup, coffee. Lunch- 3 cups of rice, 2 viands, soup, drinks. Supper- 2 cups of rice, 1 viand, bananas. Not to mention snack time. I'm 5ft 9", 24yrs at that time, still my weight dive down to 128 pounds, we're having like 72 hrs overtime per 15 days. That's the 2 years of work. Then after overtime reduced my weight up to 138pounds still looks skinny. Now retired at 53 I ate only a third of that diet but I weight 175pounds
Yeah, and no. "stress, abundance, alcohol, and rice" is basically what sums up life as a Japanese worker. And yet, these people are far from what you'd call obese.
Exactly
@@artemslikens8107 You were heavily active then so your energy burned and thus the calories. Probably more calories burned than you ate.
@Bobby Brady No. Stress can cause you hormonal imbalance then even less calories can't save you from getting fat.
My wife is Filipino and when I first met her and her family, they were all skinny inspite of eating rice at every meal. It was relatively inexpensive, but very filling. They also walked a lot and did a lot of manual labor and food was scarce. After we got married and started sending money back to the Philippines, they all got fat because they bought a multicab (small truck), had more food and started drinking soda instead of water. We also gained a lot of weight because of all the excess calories and carbs. This year we started counting calories using cronometer and cutting back on carbs and I've lost 60lbs.
Congratulations to you RedCloud58, that is fantastic!
Yes, you’re right it’s not carbs that are the problem its the amount and what kind.
yep, War and homeland devastation are surefire ways to lose weight
Are you my brother Al? That is his story EXACTLY.
Exactly it’s no mystery when we start eating more calories no matter what form it’s in and less activity we will gain weight it’s just so much easier to get a lot of calories from processed foods they Tend to be higher in calories but lower in volume so you can eat a lot more of it than fresh foods that tend to be lower in calories but bigger in bulk so it’s harder to eat a lot of calories from them
Thanks for this. I lived in Asian countries for 3 years and LUVVVVV rice, so I've been wondering to what extent I need to give it up (I did a keto diet about 10 years ago and lost 40 pounds, getting me down to a reasonable weight/size). In something like soups, or stir-fry with a very flavorful sauce, riced cauliflower works OK. But for, say, traditional Japanese food? Accept no subs!!
So it looks like I can keep my rice, if only occasionally, if I do things like intermittent fasting. (I'm 70, haven't been to a doctor in over 30 years, and am finally getting healthy thanks to honest doctors like you).
Great video! My previous generation ate rice daily and they were slender but MOST of them suffered very badly with type two diabetes.
My present generation are also eating rice and slender and MOST of us also have type two diabetes. A few of us are trying our best to control our diabetes by excluding rice from our diets!
I am absolutely hooked on this channel. I found it this morning and have been binge watching it since
Same lol
Great explanation! I have been asked about Asians and rice so many times.
Thank you Beat Diabetes!. I really appreciate your feedback and so glad that you liked the video. Thank you also for helping educate people on your channel.😀
My observation is that rice is more of a side dish here in China, eaten with the main meat and vegetable dishes. Chinese people are incredibly health and food aware and tend to avoid wrong foods. Sadly, McDonald’s and KFC are considered to be special treats but are probably the least healthy of what they eat. Packaged foods and snacks have risen dramatically in the last ten years and are generally poor quality in my opinion. As they are Chinese style but using western processing methods they appear healthy when in fact they’re not. This and the rise in use of refined sugar in cooking and the rise in bakeries producing highly sweetened breads is contributing to obesity, I’m sure. But only for those who make those choices. Another major factor has been the ‘one child policy’ (recently abolished) which led to overfeeding and overprotection of the child by its parents and grandparents. Traditionally, this child would look after its parents and grandparents later in life.
150 years ago people weren’t snacking between meals at fast food outlets, nor did they have vast amounts of sugar added to bread nor their sauces nor was food deep fried as often as it is today. I doubt that there is anything wrong with either white rice or white flour except in excess quantities. The doctor should know that Correlation is not causation. The problem is excessive grain consumption themselves. Giving up whole grains eliminates all manner of bowel irritants and toxics. When I myself reduced and gave up (mostly) whole grain bread after years of use things went better. Far less wind (which is a misery that cuts into sleep). A conversation with my mother revealed that My great grandmother from North Europe where whole grain rye was normal bread even to the 1980s advised my mother to not eat no more than 2 at most 3 slices of whole grain rye bread per day. You need to eat intelligently and that is what the German, Swedish housewife did. There may be nutrients but there are also anti nutrients, irritants etc. Whole grains don’t even help constipation, that depends more on micro flora. Looking back into a mythological slim past and lauding whole grains is barking up the wrong tree, people had health problems in the past as well. 70 years of promoting whole grains on the basis of crappy epidemiological studies of Africans has done nothing. Eat whole foods is an excellent rule for foods that are not toxic uncooked. It shouldn’t apply to rice or wheat. Eat a mixture of whole grain and refined rice.
Fried food is the unhealthy food in Asia, they have poor quality oils in China. The Asians who eat rice and veg and limit their processed food and oils are still thin.
Asian don't only eat rice, they eat rice, with vegetables, green black, red lentils, curd, raw carrot and radishes and spice red chilli powder, turmeric, cumin seed . In Nepal
When I first started traveling to Rio, in the 80's before fast food was widely available, I noticed how fit the people were. By 5 years later, as fast food became more popular I noted a noticeable weight gain across the population that I observed.
In my state in India, we eat mostly a kind of parboiled rice called Rosematta rice. ( It is not brown rice, this is parboiled before being killed and retains a lot of nutrients as compared to white rice )..this rice is soaked for 1 hour in water before boiling. Once the rice is cooked ( 1 cup rice : 10-12 cups watee), the remaining water ( which is saturated with starch) is drained out completely. By cooking it this way, we can get rid of a.lot.of starch as well..In olden days this drained out starch water was used to starch clothes 😁 to make them stiff .
My grandmother used to have her sarees starched with the rice starch water. 🙂
Thank you! I will try this! @angiethebookaholic
I stay lean after moved to the U.S. 12 years. I Never adapt to American eating habits and modify my Asian eating habit too.
Thank you Xuan Luo. Good for you.
Are you higher carb lower fat, and do you stay away from processed?
@@bri-manhunter2654 First thing is to stay away from processed food. Our family cooks real food from scratch. In the beginning, I am low fat and high carb, which maintained my weight pretty well. I did exercise 3 to 5 times a week and occasionally skipped one or two meals. I was able to keep my weight around 158lbs. Recent two years, I am doing a low carb diet, my weight dropped to 150 lbs and stay very stable. By the way, I am 5.11.
@@OPIUM_FLY smart man
Holy cow! You’re almost at 200k!!!! 🔥
This video is fascinating. Watching it now with my girlfriend (Asian). We were just talking about brown vs white rice a few days ago. This video is right on time.
Thank you Dan. I mean Nick. I mean Dee Nimmin. I appreciate your support. I even got a new cell phone the other day, so I'll be checking out your channel for some great tips.
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Great presentation. A "must watch" for everyone.
I hope that some teachers out there will show that in the classroom.
The increase is from the introduction of fastfood and softdrinks in the asian diet rather than from eating rice everyday.
Exactly!
Bubble tea and fried Korean chicken bars everywhere too.
That’s what my Vietnamese housemate said is happening in her country.
Have nothing to do with rice or fast food. Ppl live better life now and have more foods, which most time have lots of carbs. Unless you do stressful labor work, don’t need that much carbs in your daily foods.
Don't forget rice was produced in fields with more nutrient rich soils over 40 years ago and with none of the chemicals like Glyphosate that is used now to increase or maintain yields. For thousands of years, people used natural fertilizers and pest control methods which, by the way, were more labor intensive and therefore more calorie burning than methods of production today. Rice doesn't grow on nitrogen alone. If you deplete all the minerals in the soil or bind them with glyphosate which was first patented as an industrial chelator, the rice changes; it becomes less nutritious and more toxic.
Love your videos Dr Ekberg! Thank you 🙏. I am from Iran and we grew up on rice. I also raised my children on our traditional cuisine. Both of my parents have type 2 diabetes and I am prediabetic even though we didn’t eat junk foods, or processed foods or even drank soda. We only ate what we thought was healthy home made, balanced meals. But because we ate rice or pasta with each meal and cereal for breakfast and drank skim milk with our meals as well cooked with vegetable oils, we are all sick with metabolic syndrome. We even snacked on fruit, nuts and home made muffins because we thought that was healthy. 😢
NotJo exactly! I am keto now and have been for over a year and I converted my parents and everyone I can reach. But it is very hard for people to change their habits that drastically.
The flaw I see with this is that glycemic index of a meal is from a combination of foods that you eat. Asians eat rice with fish which has omega 3 fat and protein and hence the overall glycemic index of the food is actually lower.
And correlation is NOT causation. Just saying
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It makes sense to me.
Most asian eat rice with fried chicken nowadays
I don't know Japan or Korea. But for Chinese, the only reason people are used to be slim is poverty. If you learned Chinese history, fat is considered as wealth in ancient China. If you have ample Chinese cuisine supply, you can be really fat. All those comment mentions KFC and Mc in China just ignores the fact.
@@alanchen8272 I doubt it is as fatty in the really traditional way. But one point to make, while being overweight is definitely unhealthy, being super skinny and small(undeveloped) as an average person 100 ago in China is not better, in my opinion.
@@yilingxu964 you can be skinny or obese and malnourished and poisoned. Theres increasing evidence that chemicals like Glyphosate may be the underlying cause of diseases like dementia, Parkinson's, Autism, etc. Eat with that in mind. All the food a hundred years ago was essentially organic. That's not so now.
I get a Mike Judge implicit humor with these videos in addition to all the educational content. Thank you.
@Rayquesto.😄 Yes my editor loves Mike's movies especially Idiocracy.
Thank you for clearing up the confusion between brown and white rice. That's very helpful!
Im Asian and I was obese from when i was 12 years old. Doing zero carb now and have lost 20 kilos since Aug 2019. I also do Intermittent Fasting.
Good for you, Tess! That's fantastic.
Thank you tess podador for sharing your story. That is great that you're finally getting some great results. Keep it up!😀
Good work👍
Can give us a little more details on what you eat and when
healthy simple life I eat mostly meat, eggs and fat (from animals) and i usually eat one big meal a day (around 5 or 6pm) . I sometimes do extended fasts of 72h or 48h for healing ( i was diagnosed with diabetes type 2) i have around 20 kilos more to lose. My blood sugar ranges 80 to 90 fasted and up to 100 fed. My bloodpressure is steady at 110/70. I very seldom eat vegetables maybe some lettuce when i buy a burger from fast food(bunless ofcourse) and pickles. When doing a long fast i drink salted water to keep off headaches. When i refeed i dont do it 'gently' i eat my meat as I want. Might not work for everyone. Im lucky it does on me
I still eat rice practically everyday and I'm still a reasonably athletic with packs and 46. Yes, I agree it's eating too much with less labor.
Agree...plans meals around level of physical activity
Agree...plans meals around level of physical activity
@@IvySnowFillyVideos Agree...plans meals around level of physical activity
Agree…plan meals around level of physical activity
I love your name ,I hope that is your given
I have a beautiful dr/specialist i see and his name is Dr King Wong like King Kong
As an Indian, this is my 2 cents. I grew up in a big city in India and walked a lot. My parents still don’t own a car and make time to walk once or twice a day outdoors. I grew up eating rice or rice based dishes 3 times a day. My parents only took us out to eat maybe once a month or two. I weighed pretty much 100 lbs from the time I was 15 years old all the way through my college days. Then I started working, made my own money and put on 30 odd pounds in a matter of a year. Why? Suddenly I was sitting a lot even though I started in a sales job which took me all over the city. Not to mention eating out for convenience. Now I am in the US and thanks to the incredibly sedentary lifestyle here, I have really struggled to lose that weight. Unfortunately I have convinced myself eating the food of my native land is not good for me because my lifestyle does not let me lose weight if I keep eating rice.
So u gonna do keto?
He is going to dirty bulk and become a bloatlord.
Yep lived in a town in US that people walk in moved and gained 50 lbs
You just gotta change your lifestyle and make it a habit. Watch the saturated fats and sodium in food, do a minimum of 10,000 steps per day, etc.
eritritol will save you if you replace all carbs with it
I think rice is not as bad as refined sugar, if you walk a lot to school or work, or exercise regularly, most ppl will not overeat rice because it fills you up quickly, unlike donuts, cookies, boba milk tea and etc.
I almost never get full on rice but luckily I don’t like it except with sushi
@@Damudean yeah … I can put down rice like a champ and I love rice …. Struggle is real
You think?
He just explains white rice IS as bad as sugar.
Agreed. You can eat donut by itself, but rice is always paired with fibrous veggies and sometimes protein, thereby lowering the average glycemic index. The body only recognizes the effect from the combination of foods that are eaten together.
It’s not seen differently than sugar by the body.
I will never quit eating rice, just have small portion like 1/4 a cup and you will be fine , and just make sure you are doing physical activities daily, rice isn’t bad
Lol yea but A LOT of people eat A LOT of rice and don't do any physical activities.
No true . I’m eating rice almost every day for lunch some time for dinner
1-2 cup per day . I’m healthy strong I’m 43 years old from Thailand 🇹🇭😘
@@ningbutsakorn yeah but your metabolism is probably way different than people here in america, alot of people here get fat off of sugar and carbs, while others (mostly Asians) can digest it efficiently
I quit eating rice 95 years ago
South East Asian here,over here we eat rice for breakfast,lunch and dinner with lots of fresh fruits, vegetables and meat that we raised ourselves,we are rural folks and we do lots of physical activities, and some do not... Don't worry,rice is not EVIL.. it gives you strength,rice eaters have strong body and in my observation they don't get fatigued easily and rarely gets sick..eat more rice.
Thank you so much Dr. Ekberg for sharing this great information!
Thank you The Beth Kitchen. I really appreciate your feedback and so glad that you liked it.
Thank you from Japan! I immediately shared this with my whole family.
Great video Dr. Ekberg. I did some research too. As it turns out, in 1966, the sugar industry paid Harvard researchers $50,000 to craft a study that states sugar-carbs are good for nutrition and fats were largely responsible for heart disease - diabetes. The study was so convincing, it was printed in the prestigious New England journal of medicine in 1967. One of the scientists who was paid by the sugar industry was D. Mark Hegsted, who went on to become the head of nutrition at the United States Department of Agriculture, where in 1977 he helped draft the forerunner to the federal government’s dietary guidelines. The “food pyramid”. Another was Dr. Fredrick J. Stare, the chairman of Harvard’s nutrition department.
In a statement responding to the JAMA journal report, the Sugar Association said that the 1967 review was published at a time when medical journals did not typically require researchers to disclose funding sources. The New England Journal of Medicine did not begin to require financial disclosures until 1984.
The industry “should have exercised greater transparency in all of its research activities,” the Sugar Association statement said. Even so, it defended industry-funded research as playing an important and informative role in scientific debate. It said that several decades of research had concluded that sugar “does not have a unique role in heart disease.”
The revelations are important because the debate about the relative harms of sugar and saturated fat continues today, Dr. Glantz said. For many decades, health officials encouraged Americans to reduce their fat intake, which led many people to consume low-fat, high-sugar foods that some experts now blame for fueling the obesity crisis.
“It was a very smart thing the sugar industry did, because review papers, especially if you get them published in a very prominent journal, tend to shape the overall scientific discussion,” he said.
Dr. Hegsted used his research to influence the government’s dietary recommendations, which emphasized saturated fat as a driver of heart disease while largely characterizing sugar as empty calories linked to tooth decay. Today, the saturated fat warnings remain a cornerstone of the government’s dietary guidelines, though in recent years the American Heart Association, the World Health Organization and other health authorities have also begun to warn that too much added sugar may increase cardiovascular disease risk.
Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided “compelling evidence” that the sugar industry had initiated research “expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.”
“I think it’s appalling,” she said. “You just never see examples that are this blatant.”
Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the nutrition department at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, said that academic conflict-of-interest rules had changed significantly since the 1960s, but that the industry papers were a reminder of “why research should be supported by public funding rather than depending on industry funding. Just my opinion but perhaps D. Mark Hegsted can be characterized as the most prolific “cereal k1ller” in history. 😉 . Its all about money at the expense of our health.
There is so much proof of corruption in the scientific world, in particular the medical world that it has got to a point where we can no longer believe anything we are told. Modern science is just as sick as we are.
robinhood 46 Americans spend more money on medical care than other country but we are the unhealthiest people in the world. Think about why . 90% of pre-diabetics will develop full blown T2 diabetes but the doctors dont tell them to get a glucose meter until they have full blown diabetes. Think about why they do that. There is a reason the CDC is doing nothing to warn the 100 million pre-diabetics in the United States . Most people diagnosed with T2 are between the ages of 45 - 60. One last fun fact, T2 diabetes takes 10 years off your life on average. I no longer trust the medical profession or the gov.
If you look at the Sugar Industry, you will see that it is filled with ruthless criminals. And it's been that way, for generations (and probably, since Colonial times).
That was how ghee and coconut oil - 2 nutritious fats - were consigned to the bins. Thank goodness, we now are more aware of conflicts of interest in research. It is not for nothing that ghee from grass-fed cows crucial for bone health, continues to be taken in some Indian homes although western marketing and industry sponsored research have converted hundreds of millions of Indians to low quality vegetable oils.
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) Summary: Life was hard in occupied Norway during WWII, but the occupation had one surprising result: deaths from heart attacks dropped precipitously, because Norwegians ate less ANIMAL fat, ---Meat, poultry, dairy.smoked less and were more physically active.
Now, in the last half of the 20th century, Norway has seen a similar precipitous drop in heart attack deaths, but this time due to focused prevention programs and improved treatment, according to new research.
This is true. I am from China. In my opinion, another major contributing factor is cooking oil. Now vegetable oil is very affordable in China right now, and people in China consume a lot more vegetable oil than before.
Thank you lijun qin. That oil you mention is pro inflammatory and promotes IR.
Beautiful20106 Interesting that on a very fact-based and upbeat channel you contribute this kind of “information”.
lijun qin yes and all the processed oils cause heart attacks.
@@beautiful20106to a large extent, but if you were born and grew up in a sucking environment, you would see that the root cause is the system, that is poisoning, and today many people are trying to break away from the gov control..it's not that simple black and white
According to a statement by the American Diabetes Association, “…there is little evidence that total carbohydrate is associated with the development of type 2 diabetes. Rather, a stronger association has been observed between total fat and saturated fat and type 2 diabetes
What a hard work making this video for us. Really appreciate for Poland
Here in Thailand, it's the vegetable oils, used in all cooked foods at restaurants and street vendors. The increase in Western fast food hasn't helped either. The other big problem is all the cafes and bakeries that have popped up in the last 10 years selling desserts and sweet drinks. Sad.
Vegetable oil is dangerous for health
Soya and Canola Oil is part of the puzzle.
The amount of cooking oil used was the biggest culture shock to me visiting Thailand.
Rice is fine if you are active and not eating too much overall. My mother’s family is Chinese and we visited every 2 years between 1993 - 2009. Things changed so rapidly at that time so the changes were very noticeable. I remember distinctly thinking people looked healthier and stronger towards the late 90s as the economy was picking up and people had more to eat. There was also suddenly a lot more cars and road infrastructure. Then I remember seeing the first Starbucks. Then a lot more fast food outlets. Gradually started seeing overweight people but mostly the younger generation, probably because they eat more junk food. My aunt, uncle and grandparents are all slim and healthy and eat rice with every meal. And those meals can be big!! For myself personally carbs are fine if I am active, I am in lockdown and have a sedentary job at present though and cutting back carbs seems to help maintain my ideal weight. Junk food, sugar etc are much bigger enemies than rice imo.
No, rice is fine if you don't eat it with fructose.
I think all the veggies also help slow down the absorption or something
@@ClassicJukeboxBand why
@@nunyabiznes33 Yes, fiber does slow absorption of sugar.
If you spend sun up to sun down every day toiling in the fields, it's really hard to not be skinny, regardless of what you eat.
I know a lot of people's that work out doors for 12 to 14 hours a day in Florida and they are fat. It's more about the quality of the food you eat and the portions.
@@trevorpeluso-weaver1499 there are people who choose “ eat to live“, and those who choose “live to eat“. we know what group those people you described belong to.
I'd rather be in a country that allows me to choose!
@@trevorpeluso-weaver1499 o it
That is such a racist stereotype..you think all
Asians are laborers?
@@queenmama8024 Westerners believe that until recent decades most mainland Chinese were agricultural workers. I don't know how true that is, but there's nothing racist about it.
i was wondering why my grandparents and parents were slim even when eating rice, bcos the did a lot of manual work at the kitchen and were active. This is a very good explanation! Thanks!
Nowadays you have Netflix and all you do is eat more on the bed until the next day
Something went wrong. Western fast food invaded Asia. Obesity was the biggest rider of fast food. I am Asian and I eat white rice twice a day and avoid fast food. I am 76 years and no health issue whatsoever.
A fantastic series of videos, and everything is always so well explained, it all makes perfect sense, thank you.
Great information broken down to the nitty gritty.👍🏼
Thank you barbara marzette. I really appreciate your feedback and so glad that you liked it. The purpose of my channel is to explain things better than other channels and help people understand the principles. Comments like yours makes it all worthwhile.
As an Asian, it was so hard to stay on keto at first because *Rice is Life* 😂 but I got rid of it.
However, I have a toddler so I was really conflicted on what to feed him so I feed him brown rice instead of the usual white.
Thank you veabruhilda.
Brown rice contains Phytates even after boiling.
Brown rice is extremely difficult to digest, I wouldn't feed it to a child. You have to soak, sprout, or ferment it first to get any nutrition out of it. White rice is a lot safer, as long as you get your nutrients from other foods. There are also UA-cam videos on how to soak or sprout brown rice if you want.
I read somewhere that brown rice can contain arsenic. You might want to look into this .
Stephen Q All types of rice can have arsenic. That’s why you have to make sure you get organic, and cook it with extra water to get some of it out.
Thank you for explaining this. This is the most comprehensive explanation i have ever heard about rice. Learned a lot, and now time to apply it.
So I was nearly 400 lbs in 2016 after having my daughter and I can’t exercise due to multiple problems with my back. My Filipino husband insisted we start eating more like he did growing up and we did. I’ve lost over 120 lbs in two years eating rice, veggies and meat. We also switched to using butter. Real butter. No exercise. My back issues have improved and I can move more. We eat rice nearly everyday. The major key is everything in moderation. These meals helped me FEEL FULL while eating significantly less than other foods. I’ve begun eating portion sizes instead of eating 3 portions to myself. I still have bad days and have noted that when we haven’t had rice that week/day I tend to have a worse time staying away from any and all food.
Is the rice you eat brown? If you try that sometimes in a week, you could become healthier. Healthcare is expensive, amiright?
Too many expecting moms eat fast food and desserts ... those are empty foods (no nutritional value causing ur body to get weak and so they overeat).
Ppl need to eat real food and workout before each meal.
peachees sorry for late reply, I ate mostly subs with wraps while I was pregnant and I love vegetables so I put a lot on my subs at home. We were too broke to afford fast food.
Mayahuel Lazy it was a mix of brown and white rice and we have started eating more white than brown rice and I am still losing weight.
Mayahuel Lazy I pretty much ate more than I needed. Rice just filled me up more and always has.
I was poor and skinny when I was in Vietnam. I have been living in the U.S for 12 years, and I am still skinny because I am still poor. No matter high quality or low quality foods, they still cost. I eat less, so I spend less money on food. I do one or 2 meals/ day. No snacking or any kind of junk food. Because I am poor, I stay healthy and young forever (LOL) 😂. I am ~36 years old, but I look like 26 years old.
Are you single?
Actually we should only eat 1 to 2 meals per day. 3 days and the food pyramid are scams. Eat more meat and stay away from antinutrients.
@@chompnormski +1
@@chompnormski lol you wanna buy here something or what?
You’re funny 😆
I fully agree with you doc. I still remember when I was young, I always help my dad in the rice paddy farm. We work really hard to put food on the table. In that time we only can harvest the rice once a year or the fastest variant was 6 month. Those harvested rice most of the time is not enough to eat till the next harvest season. because our farm is very small land. And in other side to grow that rice we work manually on that land all day long. You can imagine the amount of energy we spent.
This time, everything is change.
I work in the tourism industry. My one month Salary enough to put food on the table for 6 months 3 time meals, for the entire family. any time they want. We eat more than and spend less energy then when I was young.
Tourism is dead after covid19.
Can die fat and happy instead of overworked to death.
Unintentional fasting.
Quiet similar to how people here in Europe in the alpine regions ate and lived, only one or two generations ago. Hard physical labor on often mountainous farmland or in the forest for wood harvesting.
And the staple food consisted basically of flour, lard, bread, fatty meat, milk and cheese.
Often enough just flour, lard (for a dish called Sterz) and some milk.
But even if you look at the cities it was not all hunky dory. Vienna had its last hunger riot in 1907 (in peace times), so many if not most people rarely had enough to eat.
now youre older you cant even work as much and same intensity as you were young, metabolism changed also drastically with age... older people fresh food stay in their body much longer until it is consumed and the energy you get from food as older people is much lower so theres plenty of reasons
how well your videos are explained is truly fascinating! Thank you for all your valuable content
My wife went to visit her relatives in Korea for 1 month. She came back 20 lbs lighter!! Lots of walking an eating fresh home cooking at her relatives. The soda cans such as coke are the smaller variety. They use real sugar and is also less sweet compared to the American versions. There are a lot of ingredients that are banned.
and society pressure to be skinny
Every time I visit relatives in France, I come back weighing less and with a renewed zest for that lifestyle. After a couple of weeks, though, I fall back into old habits. 😏
@@Leucci11 Nothing wrong with that. Less health issues!
@@Leucci11 Ah Shut up. That's what people addicted to food use to threaten people who are trying to help them. Don't threaten people into silence like a coward.
@@kurapika9691 you're the only one triggered by the truth. balance is key to a healthy life in general. stress is one major factor when it comes to weigh gain/loss because it affects eating and sleeping patterns etc. nothing to be mad about.
Another factor not mentioned is that there was a huge shift from rural to urban during the last 100 years. Rural inhabitants living in "poverty" have a much higher consumption of locally grown organic green vegetables to eat with the rice. Organically grown greens are scarce in the cities (because of transportation and spoilage problems).
If everyone could only eat what they grew in their backyard, metabolic disease would be eliminated within a couple of months.... worldwide. It would also solve the earth's human overpopulation problem.
They also eat starchy vegs too, instead of some of the rice the city dweller eats. Theres just more veg intake all around.
The earth is not overpopulated, thats a myth. There are areas of great pop density ...and large areas of emptiness.
@@YeshuaKingMessiah
I get where you're coming from but not every inch of land has to be populated with people.
The earth is supposed to have vasts empty spaces so it can regenerate.
If humans filled every single inch of land on earth, how is earth supposed to recuperate from us taking everything from her??
We need empty spaces. Not every areas have to be fill with humans.
Terrie Smith the whole pop would fit in the state of Texas lol I dont think we re in danger of your scenario of filling every inch rofl
The earth is safe from humans decimating it with simple numbers.
You also missed a factor that fast-food restaurants and meat consumption has increased over those years.
I’m Asian. I eat rice twice daily and I’m still skinny 😊 I stay away from western fastfood chains’ burgers & fries & soda, and very seldomly eat bread. I also hardly eat mashed potato which contain salt & butter. I stick with rice which is only cooked with wqter 😊👍
Same story here... Lets prosper together 😜💪
There’s nothing wrong with bread… It is a staple of life and has been so for eons. What is wrong is the amount of additives and unpronounceable ingredients that are put into so many different kinds/brands of bread these days. You can absolutely make or buy healthy bread though!
you are WRONG. mashed potato does NOT contain salt nor butter. those are ADDED i used to eat white sugar mixed with butter and white rice as a kid. mashed potatoes are just that. they are potatoes that were mashed up.
@@16-bitpower38 some people have to be difficult, I guess you are that one. Mashed potatoes are a DISH (In gastronomy is a specific food preparation). They were not referring to instructions. They are not potatoes mashed up. They are cooked potatoes that have been mashed up WITH salt, butter, milk and then usually whipped up with a mixer to add air and a fluffy texture. Many people use (especially, most every restaurant ) the flakes, dehydrated potatoes that have the butter, and milk powders already in it, you just add water. If you took a cooked potato and just mashed it up, no one would recognize it as Mash potatoes. The above comment is RIGHT.
If you're so skinny why are you watching this video?
Bless you. For free knowledge and sharing it
Brilliant explanation as always. Makes perfect sense
Thank you jim connell. I really appreciate your feedback and so glad that you liked it. The purpose of my channel is to explain things better than other channels and help people understand the principles. Comments like yours makes it all worthwhile.
I was eating rice many times a day until 5 years ago, moderately active and skinny. Hardly ate any fast food at all. I didn’t snack in between meals. Then I got married to a outdoorsy guy. When we would go hiking or climbing on the way back I would get sooo hungry. I would buy McDonald’s, Popeyes, etc. Now I’m not as active but kept the junk food habits and also snack between meals. Sure enough my weight gained. I do feel that when you start exercise vigorously you better think twice about being able to keep that up. Or you’ll have to adjust your portion drastically when you stop. That’s what I learned.
Keep a bag of almonds in your car. When you get that post activity craving, eat a dozen almonds. They will satiate you very quickly.
I didn't change my active lifestyle when I was young. I married & started eating out a lot as a lifestyle. And always having dessert after a large restaurant meal. I was easily tempted into habitual overeating - it was fun and entertaining. Now it is hard to get back to not snacking & not eating sweet desserts!!
Outdoors doesn't have McDonald's that's called the city friend lol
Good piece, Doc. I appreciate that you looked at the question holistically.
Very interesting topic Dr. Ekberg. Great information too. Thank you.
Thank you for talking about this. My Asian coworkers are all coming down with diabetes at much higher rates than the rest of my coworkers and it’s shocking because I thought that a rice based diet would have kept them healthier. This explains so much that the rice is now depleted of all nutrients and is now basically like eating sugar
It’s known that Asian migrants in Western countries like US have higher CV and diabetes rates because they are more exposed to and influenced by the unhealthy Western diets and reduced physical activities , even if they keep many of their eating habits like eating rice regularly. So they get diabetes NOT because they keep the old habits of eating rice, but rather, because they gained the new habits of eating junk and not exercising.
They be coming here eating all this junk food. Why not just continue esting like you do in your country? They are sick because they changed what they eat.
Asians are more prone to diabetes not because of rice, but they're genetically less muscular and prone to being "skinny-fat". Because of this, the BMI cutoffs for overweight and obese recommended by WHO are lower for Asians. For example, BMI for being overweight starts at 23 for Asians vs 25 for White and Blacks because, at BMI of just 23, Asians are already at higher risk of developing complications such as diabetes
@@gracey5512 true, and I think many Asians are shorter than westerners. From observation....
@@sassi7966 Diet plays a large role in height. Major male correlates of height study.
Reminds me of how it's universally known that red meat is bad for you and causes cardiovascular disease... completely ignoring the those native African tribes that don't eat anything else than red meat and where cardiovascular disease is pretty much non-existent.
It's not the red meat itself that kills you. It's the other stuff they put in there plus all the other junk you eat in addition. (The red meat might become one of the primary sources of the cardiovascular problems, but only because it has been mixed with other substances that do not belong there nor in a healthy diet. Pure red meat in itself quite demonstrably doesn't cause cardiovascular diseases.)
Grass fed beef and lamb, wild bison and deer, pasture raised duck...it's all good stuff.
Native African tribes hunted or killed their own organic red meat. Not buy from supermarkets with frozen meat imported from oversea coated with persevervatives to prolong shelf life.
@@sifu2u_now That's what I said.
Combination of protein and fat isn't bad as in red meat, it's combination of fat with carbs that make it worse
Like red meat with bread or bun
because the problem with that study that they inlcuded processed meat and meat.... and the processed meat causes problems not the red meat.
I really wish Dr Ekberg would have discussed the inorganic arsenic that is in rice and its effect of us eating it. Would be really interesting to hear his take on it as it's getting much worse as the planet gets more polluted.
True for the US, where rice is grown on land which used to grow cotton. Cotton farmers used a lot of arsenic pesticides. White rice is better than brown because more of the arsenic is in the outer layers.
@angrybirdsforfun8196 yes
*I like the way you balance your teachings on facts and some technicality, never going to extremes. Also showing some stats that illustrate what you're presenting. At the end we know why what's being said is being said in the first place.*
Im an asian too, i only started gaining too much weight when i started to eat a lot of fast food and junk food along with less physical activity. Now im thin again after dieting and exercising. I had to limit my junk food and fast food intake.
I remember seeing this news story in which two sisters from a Korean family were separated when they were young. One of them went to the USA. When they were adults, the Korean family flew to America to meet the one who had grown up there. The one who stayed in Korea was slim, while her sister had become obese :-(
whever you live, what you eat is a choice...
@@agfagaevart It's difficult though, when wheat is subsidised by the government in the USA so that it's the cheapest thing to buy by far, while fruits and vegetables and healthy meats are _several times_ more expensive. Sometimes what you eat when you're financially struggling - no, it's not a choice.
@@agfagaevart it's easy to say everything is a choice when you can afford for it to be so
So much for people always blaming their genetics.
My God, these videos are not just informative, the topics are interesting too!
I think it's also the fact that over the years they've lowered the blood sugar threshold value so that a lot more people are now considered "diabetic". And they're doing the same for everything else: cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. so that it's going to be more and more difficult to find someone technically "healthy"... and it's a good excuse to fill us up with medicines.
So the drug companies can force more people onto pills. Drug companies are a driving force in medical schools where doctors learn to read labs and prescribe drugs. Period. Gross majority of doctors can no longer perform clinical diagnostics. Western medicine does not heal unless it's basically surgery or setting bones. Healthcare doesn't exist.
That doesn't explain obesity though.
Nicholas I believe you but I where do you have a source for that claim? I want to be able to show people w proof
Thank you, this like a free university lecture. I feel so blessed to have access to so much knowledge for free.
Yeah ,the good stuff is good
The China Study was a great book on this.
I read it in 2011 as a Teenager and it changed my life 🙌❤️
It's bizarre, people paid a premium to get refined white rice centuries ago, now they pay a premium for it not to be.
Inflation of portion sizes is definitely a factor as well.
I'm Asian and grew up on white jasmine rice. It was hard weaning off of rice and my kids hate brown rice so now I do a 50/50 blend of basmati rice and quinoa.
This is amazing! The title pulled me right in. It's so true: our diseases/obesity are not diseases of scarcity. they are diseases of surplus. Too much. We say everything in moderation, but we don't do it. Too much refined carbohydrates and a fast sedentary lifestyle. But thank you for this knowledge: it is turning around my own personal life in 3 weeks alone.
This was dope thank you
I'm Asian American. Former Sushi Chef for 10 years. I've eating poor complex wheat noodles and white rice mostly my entirely life. Ever since I stopped I noticed less acne breakout on my back. Now I'm staying the course on a Keto Diet along with intense workouts.
u should try a beet smoothie routine. Did it years ago and changed my health in a positive way. Best pre-workout drink!
@@paladinhansen137 I have... well just straight Beet and Ginger Juice, it's really good!
The best explanation about rice diet I've ever heard.
I love this video because it will explains accurately . I am Filipina, I grew up in a countryside. I worked in the rice fields. In our area , we ate polish rice or white rice 3X a day. And based on my observations, it’s rare to see people who are obese or overweight. Why? Because of poverty I mean lack of money to buy processed food . We rarely even eat red meat ( pork or beef ) . So we ate vegs or fish . So far we are lean . I am 33 years old now . I moved here in Germany and most processed food is around the corner . I was 52 kgs and my height is 168cm and now I am 62 kgs but my doctor told me that everything is normal. Today I am still eating white rice but I mix it with homemade kimchi . And I enjoy it .
I was a nurse, but for the first time I'm understanding high insulin vs the blood glucose. Thank you Dr. Your a really good teacher.
@@boobee2511 LooOooL
@@boobee2511Yeah real “Ambarrasing”
I’ve lost 5 pounds since I’ve stopped eating out. Can’t wait to see how many more pounds come off just by doing this.
I lost over 20 by eating out, because I only eat healthy foods at restaurants.
The moral of the story - do what works for you.
Save a boat load of money too
@@Irisicaaa same, when i eat out i don't have to think about what to eat so i don't normally overeat
Search, "Linoleic Acid- Interview with Tucker Goodrich"
Stop eating wheat and refined seed oils and you'll slough off weight. I've lost 14 pounds in 2 weeks and I'm still eating carbs. Keto works because we stop ingesting linoleic acids, not because of ketosis.
Triggering autophagy with intermittent fasting is also important, but that will only control the speed at which you lose fat. If you correct the diet, the body will take care of the rest.
The major thing that changed is the introduction of polyunsaturated seed oils - just as that is the major thing that has changed in our diets over the whole world
Yes, which enables mass production of fatty and fried foods. It’s the calories.
@@stargazerbird totally disagree - various indigenous and traditional peoples were eating far higher calories than we do - and calories anyway are not the same as energy - some foods will directly interfere with and lower thyroid hormone, interfere with the electron transport chain in the mitochondria, and lower metabolic rate, and other foods don’t.
The PUFA are well known for oxidized damage at the mitochondrial level and causing liver problems which is where thyroid hormones are activated - and they do this on many other levels as well
@@meditation-keepbreathing2536 I've always heard that pufa help the liver, where did you get that ingo from?
My wife's Filipino, they consume huge quantities of rice and now, diabetes is on the rise in the Philippines.
Spoiler alert: it's not the rice but US fast food and processed food products, together with the habit of drowning kids in coke. Plus, "coffee" there is some sugary liquid, not real coffee. People think they're drinking coffee. Another issue is that the Philippines are historically a sugar cane producing nation. Cuisine is fairly sweet.
It's the meat.
Philipino love fried foods.
It's Filipino. Mind the spelling, please.
Nice video.
This is a common discussion among the older people in my Ancestral village. We still eat unpolished rice. But as an occasional delicacy, not as a staple. Polished rice is ubiquitous and affordable.
Nowadays we are returning back to millets from other food grains. These have low calorific value compared to rice and have higher fiber and mineral content. The main hurdle is the rediscovery of recipes that use staples other than rice or wheat. These millets also required lesser inputs like water, fertilizers and pesticides.
I am very optimistic. We humans posses high plasticity. Once we are convinced of a problem, we will surely solve it. This video is a great exercise in conceptualizing the problem and conveying it's gravity.