Is Brown Rice Really Better Than White Rice? | Talking Point | Episode 41
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- From white, brown, red, black, purple and even wild rice - there’s so many varieties of rice these days. How do you know which rice is best for you? Talking Point breaks down the nutritional content and uncovers a shocking discovery about white rice!
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My grandparents ate white rice all their life and they lived long without any diseases. Eat less processed/junk/fastfood/canned foods and you can still enjoy your white rice.
Amen on that.
Combine high GI white rice with low GI food. Problem solved. Few eat white rice in isolation.
White rice and unrefined oil is fine but 2 generations later, today we have refined oils with refined rice. Refined carbs combining with refined oil is extremely detrimental to the heart and the body.
Delilah, no offense but that is a poor argument.. I can say the same thing, my great grand father lived to 92 and smoked.. Reality, he may have lived to 110 if he didn't smoke. What science shows us, you are less likely to get stomach cancer on the whole grain rice than the white rice. Science shows us that white rice has a negative effect on your health while brown rice has a positive effect. The choice is yours.
Indeed. Just eat in moderation and exercise regularly.
I'm from Philippines, I experienced eating brown rice 12 years ago in Iligan city. Fast forward, and we are mixing brown, black and white rice in our daily meal. Although the brown and black are a bit expensive, the health benefits outweigh the expense. At 1st its hard to switch from white to mix rice, but as time goes by my family enjoyed eating mix rice.
Hi Anthony I’ll take your advice.....
Magkano po ba ang brown rice?
@@kooliit448 55/ kilo
I like wild rice blend
Recently I been eating brown rice but I like your idea mixing different types.
Soak your brown/black rice overnight is the key to decent rice texture.
Thanks this was helpful
Black rice is softer than brown rice. So, black rice no need to soak
Yes
cooking the rice in a pressure cooker like the Instant Pot makes a great texture too and saves time.
@David Watkins I thought parboiled was good for those with diabetes
There is a major concern with whole grain rice that they didn't mention. That issue is the bran of the rice can absorb the arsenic that is present in the water in many asian countries. The arsenic is in its toxic inorganic form and can be detrimental to the health of the people (mainly those who aren't actively consuming the contaminated water, those living in those areas have bigger issues with arsenic from water than rice).
Also, its crazy that brown rice is more expensive than white rice. Brown rice is the less processed form of rice, meaning that the production time and cost of it should be lower than that of white rice. But, the healthly foods industry is artificially inflating the cost of the rice because the smaller amount of people who'd buy it are willing to pay more for "more healthy" food.
That's an interesting perspective 🤔,never really thought about it that way
Not sure that's accurate... Suspect the reason is that they can sell the bran etc separately for more
Actualy rice with bran is easier to spoil and has less shelf life, meaning it is more expensive to keep on the shelf.
@@maddog8807 yea that's the thing. shelf life is important. demand is more for brown rice. prices are high. although brown rice doesnt need processing. still the overall cost is too significant.
Re arsenic, true but it can be greatly reduced. I read a study where scientists trialed various ways to reduce the arsenic in rice while retaining as much of its nutrients as possible. They found it most effective to rinse the rice thoroughly, boil it for 5 minutes, dump that water, and then cook normally. For added assurance since I’m gluten free and eat brown rice regularly, I also soak overnight and dump that water (after the rinsing step, before the boiling step).
I love that steering wheel design. As a young boy i used to ride in a MORRIS Oxford that had one with a similar design. Bring back the old design!
We now know that those old car designs, especially the steering wheel, were highly legal. After learning from crash testing, we know strong/heavy/metal design is bad for surviving a crash. Plastics that break apart on impact become a cushion, and combined with air bags, save you. The old steeling wheel posts would destroy the lungs in a crash and collapse the rib cage into the heart, then you would slide over the steering wheel over the dash and into the windshield, which would snap your neck as it twisted backwards and your full body weight is placed on it.
I love brown rice with wild rice and it's really the best staple food ever. I tried purple, red and red berry rice, it's okay but the best is brown rice with wild rice. To me it depends on your taste. ASIANS LOVE RICE.
yeah, Asians love rice. meal is incomplete without it❤️
Where do you get wild rice? I can't seem to find it. Where is it available in Singapore?
ALEC 6804, IT'S IN EVERY GROCERY STORES CALIFORNIA.
Wild rice blend is my favorite too.
Good video. One thing they did not talk about is shelf life. White rice has a longer shelf life than brown rice.
This is the kind of videos that make UA-cam great for home school. Will be showing the kids in 'class' tomorrow, and we'll cook the rices and try them. Thank you.
Its not about what we eat only. Its also the way we live....both is important
Woww... such an informative video. I always used to think that brown rice is healthier than white rice because it has lesser calories, never thought about the concept of glycemic index. So there are quite different varieties of rice brown rice, white rice, black rice, red rice, riceberry rice.
I never give up my white rice cuz I mixed it with red and black rice, and sometimes purple rice.
Great video! I consume a lot of "Nishiki Seven Grains Mix" (medium grain brown rice, brown sweet rice, red rice, buckwheat groats, quinoa, black rice, millet). I cook it in my rice cooker, set to "brown rice", comes out GREAT, every time. BUT...I am addicted to jook, and the only rice I have gotten to work is, guess what, white rice. (However, the last jook I made--yesterday morning!--I added some of the seven grains mix that I had prepared the night before...not too much, just enough to have a different color and texture; it worked out great. BUT...I think I could eat an iPhone if it were in jook, especially with enough spring onions...)
It must be great, to have a job where you get paid to eat! :D Thanks again.
Just found your channel. Great video! But one issue not mentioned. Brown rice has one of the highest concentrations inorganic arsenic of any food.
I eat brown or black, few spoons of it, I feel full already. Thus preventing me from overeating and won't trigger overweight in me.
High fibre high protein white polished rice available now a days . Thanks to lattest scientific development
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I like this show about the rice ! I tried tell my daughters not to eat white bread and white rice . But black rice . We are California and I do love black rice a lot !
At the grand scale of things rice is just an element to take into account but there are many other things that are much worse. I cut sugary drinks and don't even put sugar on my coffee. I also work out and walk everywhere. Still, this video was very informative, especially the lab results. I think what most people should take away from this it's not that they are saying rice is bad but to know the are differences and what fiber does to a diet. A healthy sustainable diet isn't to cut things out completely or feel hungry and miserable but to be able to make smart choices.
If you eat fibrous food WITH white rice, you're getting the fiber you need with white rice. Do not eat white rice alone. Or do like the Korean's and use a grain mix that have other nations and black rice to make it a purple in colour.
My white rice is mixed with black and red rice, and sometimes purple rice.
exactly! rice is commonly paired with fiber-rich beans in many cultures and it makes a significant difference
This video is amazing, first one I watch from this channel, I'm subscribed!
I really love your videos - a great mix of information and humour. My problem with whole grain rice is the cooking time. I have a busy schedule and white rice is faster and easier to cook.
There is a way of increasing the resistant starch (which acts as a fiber) content of cooked rice, pasta and potatoes and that is to refrigerate it for 24h before consuming. Even if you reheat it, the resistant starch that has already been formed remains.
And how it helps ? Can I freeze it for longer time? Can I use it few days after took it out from the freezer?
Black rice is good, cook it with garlic, salt and sesame oil on rice cooker, after soaking it first 1-3hrs before cooking. It taste like risotto. :) texture is great.
Red rice is good, cook it with garlic, salt and sesame oil on rice cooker, after soaking it first 1-3hrs before cooking. It taste like risotto. :) texture is great.
I wil try this, thank you!
For me i loved brown rice way more than white rice... it just has more flavrour, it needs to be crunched a little bit more...it's more satisfiyng to eat. So yeah for me is better in every way than white rice.
It's not always about calorie relation to weight. It's how a food affects our hormones, especially insulin...
Thank you so much for sharing this video in this indept research and intuitive analysis of varities of rice. After watching this, I scratch my head. I feel no longer wanting to eat white rice because of high in G.I and not healthy. I grew up eating white rice 3 times daily as part of our diet because it is common and affordable and as part of asian tradition. Yes, white rice has more flavor and texture hands down moreso than those colored whole grain rice. But I am getting older not as active than I have been in my younger days that I can easily burn those sugar into energy. Managing weight is a challenge, always in check our sugar intake and other aspects of health. All the remaining days of my life my goal is to have a better, longer, more energy and healthy life together with my family. Again, thank you and more power to your channel.
Great program. Thanks for researching!
I won’t mind eating mix rice variety as long as it’s served by this beautiful nutritionist
Good to be informed about rice. I didn't know PM referred rice as sugar. The mixed grain nasi lemak might throw many ppl off, though I don't mind trying.
If you want a healthier life, convert as much of your energy intake from carbs to unrefined medium chain fats, not long chain. Not carbs and long chain fats.
I been eating white rice since birth. My great grandparent ate rice for the rest of their life without illness
Exactly my grandfather smoked cigar till 99 years 😂
Simple
Eat food when its hot. Cook the rice properly. And important please don't throw the water with which the rice is washed. Results in amazing skin and hair.
Yeah mixing it with other grains is an easy way for the taste buds. Helps keeps the cost down too.
If unpolished, less processing cost right? Why more expensive?
Cuz demand
Because healthier choices cost more, just for the name.like LV. In those days, brown rice was cheaper.😂
Because white rice is easier to preserve than brown rice. It's just like refined and unrefined oil. The longer the shelf life, the cheaper
The actual fact it is priced higher bcoz it has no demand. When demand is high it will be cheaper to get more sales. Brown rice scientifically is not healthier.
White rice is less expensive because farmer produce a lot and good harvest from it.
While brown rice can only give a few grain per plant and is not easy to grow them.
And the cost for fertilizer and insect spray just for them to strive is very expensive.
So that's why farmer like to plant white rice than the brown rice. And that's why there's less brown rice being sold
I prefer white basmati rice because there is less bad stuff in there. I serve it together with plant fibre like vegetables.
I don't care whether it is white, or black, I need fiber.
The more fiber, the best.
In this context, oat is the best.
Try it. it also has calcium.
wow. Oatmeal. I love you.
Yes, I like oats, either steel cut or coarse oatmeal. I gave up rice years ago, first switched to barley, later (and still on) spelt grain. Anything you make with rice, you can make with spelt.
what are u? some oats salesman?
@@jayfong7 haha chill
Brown /whole grain rice still the best. ❤️
that nutritionist's accent is switching between American, British and Aussie accent while describing different types of rice grain lol
I eat a bowl of half a cup of white rice, a bowl of miso soup with some vegetables (usually spring onion, tofu and sometimes shiitake), a tiny bit of kombu tsukudani and a littlebit of picklet grated carrots, few pickles slices and either tofu/simmered dashi or tamagoyaki served with it. Ihave an active job and do between 20.000-30.000 steps each day so I can use all the energy I can get lol.
One pertinent point not covered - recommended to presoak brown,red, black rice (preferably overnight) as pre soaking grains helps to remove some of the naturally-occurring phytic acid in the grain, which helps improve digestibility and speed cook time.
This episode is very thorough
Just exercise. All the cooking they did on the black rice will make it like the white rice again, overcooking will turn it back into the same GI
Bad advice. Just exercising won't prevent your blood sugar level from spiking after eating rice. The only way to prevent it is to stop eating rice. If you're talking about losing weight, just exercising isn't enough. Why? A plate of rice has approximately 300 calories. To burn off this number of calories, you would have to climb stairs at a slow pace for 1 hour! Nobody eats plain white rice for their meal. If your meal is 600 calories, you would have to exercise for 2 hours. Who has time for that?
I was measured after every meal in hospitalised during December 2020. The small Chinese bowl of white rice will cause my blood sugar to rise up in alarm high; over shot the ok range.
So I ate half of it to remain in the range. So nowadays, I only take very few white rice due to blood sugar sake.
Viewer from Malaysia. Love these informative series from CNA. Keep it up!
I want all of the rice, apart from cold rice pudding. If I have to cook rice at home, I'll have brown rice, but when with family, I don't have a choice, so it's white rice.
Sandy, Victoria, BC, Canada. Totally enjoyed this episode very informative. Loved the presenter. Please do more.
The nutritionist is so beautiful😍😍😍
My grandparents were rice farmers, brown rice is rice seed after the hull removed. The hull texture is similar to sandpaper.
This show is full of nutrition........
I love short grain brown rice..but if I feel like having white rice, I choose basmati for its lower glycemic index...or I mix lentils in with the white rice which also ups the fiber.
Thank you for the vital information. I don't eat white rice any more for six years now. Instead I eat brown rice once in a week or so. Is this ok for a diabetes type 2?. Will appreciate you responses and comments
I am more and more realizing that I am actually a health nut after watching some episodes here.
Been mixing my different rices eversince I moved out of my parents house.
Why I did this I don't know probably because I didn't had enough rice in the house.
Liked/Loved it so much that I've kept doing it.
My grown-up kids do the same and for the grandkiddies its the normal.
My understanding...Brown basmati.. more fibre, lower gi index.
I've been eating riceberry mixed with brown rice and now I'm thinner so yes it is good since 2016
Brown Rice Actually Contains 80% More Arsenic Than White Rice (Arsenic Is a Type Of Carcinogen That Can Cause Cancer In The Skin Lungs Bladder Or Kidney)
So It Is Not Good.
I've been eating white rice all my life and now i have a girlfriend so yes it is good since beginning of time! Gangster logic!
@@chengchiu957 White Rice Also Contains Arsenic
And If You Read My Reply Carefully You Can See That I Said 80% More Arsenic Than White Rice
Meaning There Is Still Arsenic In It
@@frankie.s___ and brown rice has on av 80% more arsenic than white rice, in face when removed it becomes white rice! Good to know facts
Combining white rice with fibrous vegetables and fats will slow down digestion which won't spike your blood glucose level as if you were to eat white rice by itself. So don't force yourself to switch up rice variations, just add in more vegetables/good fats to your diet!
Good point. Who really sits down and has just a bowl of plain rice?
But doing that way isn't healthy because you don't want a slow digestion system because that will amount up backed up
food waste in your system and leads to
Constipation because your system is filled up with too much waste because the theory
is for us to eat healthy foods and the healthy nutrients from the foods should nourish our cells with their nourishment
And move through our digestive system
then we secrete it as bowel movements
with our urination process because by it
being slowed in the digestive system too
Long that leads to sugar from the foods
To keep going into our blood streams
longer than necessary and salt too
This will lead to diabetes hypertension
high cholesterol serious problems
Also white and red potatoes when
digested turns into refined sugars in
Our bodies just like regular sugars
We use to sweeten foodstuff....
I'm going to start eating black rice so I can feel like an emperor
HIMALAYAN BROWN RICE ARE ALSO MAJESTIC
so.. already 1 month.. good? is it delicious? how do you feel
2:54 "... like you and I" here should be "... like you and Me" because the context in this sentence is the OBJECT.
The conclusion tells it all. Mix whole grain rice with white rice to get both traditional taste and nutritious benefits.
good. more white rice for me. Jasmine thai rice.
everything in moderation. that's all
Absolutely
Exactly!!
That is the crux of the matter. Chinese people are not fat and yet they eat white rice. But they use a variety of vegetables, eat from small bowls and drink from small cups.
The problem in countries where obesity has become a medical burden, is that there is not balance with the non nutritional foods and drinks that are the source of the obesity. The chicken, chips, hamburgers, pizzas, fatty bacon, fatty pork sausages, etc, are not supplemented with vegetables. People eating in at fast food restaurants do not ask for vegetable salads to go with burgers, fried chicken, chips, pizzas and whatever else. And while people wait at home for such things to arrive, they don't make a salad. In addition, the portions, particularly in America, are extremely large or the number of food items people decide to consume are too many.
Dragon fruit
Right
I always buy basmati rice , only use white rice for stuffings. Basmati rice is the most fluffiest , fragrant and delicious rice there is.
If you want to eat white rice just pair it with something that has more fiber.
2 leaf bai cai makes up for fiber, adds nutrition, who eats rice by itself really
This is so informative. I love it.
watching this while eating rice. yumz
Me too (white rice😂)
I always mix wild rice, brown basmati,black rice, white basmati rice with cauliflower rice together and it is delicious and reduces my G.I index than eating white rice
Amazing Info! Thank you! For your excellent research a
That berry rice sounds and looks good af. I hope I can look for some since I kinda disliked rice in general as I got older from the bland taste.
Basmati is also much lower GI than Jasmine. It's not just the polishing that's so bad in white rice. Also it's not about calories but what they do to your blood sugar. Pure fat is less fattening than raw sugar.
Why am IO watching this? Montpellier, France...great show
Basmati rice ( can use white ) more Nutritious. Add washed chick peas, green peas, ( May carrots 🥕, green beans ) little salt, 5,6,whole cloves, small 2,3 pieces of cinnamon. Add, 1 tsp Ghee, cook in slow flame 🔥. . Tasty n Healthy. Eat with Lental soup 🍜.special method how to wash n cook. Soak rice 🍚 in luke warm water 💦 for around 3,4 minutes, add more water 💦, rub with both palms very gently, throw dirty water 💦 . Take only rice 🍛 put in the bowl, in pan take a olive 🫒 oil , put some cumin seeds, when seeds pop up put rice, cloves, cinnamon,in it sauté it around 4 minutes then add ( cold water warm it in microwave ) add water 💦 in it , then add veggies in it . Enjoy
Very informative. Thanks.
very good stuff to know. Nice to learn how GI can be lowered.
rich people thinking about differences between several rice varieties while poor people struggle to buy a kilo of white rice and is more concerned about its ricing market price. i like mixing white rice and red rice though.
Well, middle-class people are also thinking that way. Only the poor lower class people struggle to buy white rice. Sad but true.
@@wpyoga well said.
Don't know what the fuss is all about. Switched to brown rice pretty much overnight and now I prefer brown rice if I can get it outside. If cooking at home its brown rice all the way.
I like whole grain rice because it's additional taste and aroma. It's also easier to be washed than white rice.
Brown rice is definitely whole grain, but many packaged red and black rice are actually polished and no longer whole grain.
For those 2, you need to see the grain closer. Whole grain ones should still have groove textures.
If it's smooth, that means it's polished. Don't buy this one.
Good tip! I wouldn't have known how to tell the difference otherwise! thanks!
And you can eat sprouted rice very good
Really informative
I AGREE EVERY THING IN MODERATION IS SAFE.
I always thought how can Red/Brown rice have less calories when its essentially white rice with more "stuff" left on. Glad I am not crazy.
i still prefer white rice.
Ms Ros, your mention of CHOCOLATE RICE sounds familiar yet funny...🍚
There is chocolate rice it's called champorado
I think it is crazy wonderful that I can buy rice that is sealed in nitrogen gas so it does not start oxidizing until I open the bag.
Love brown rice
In the old days, the time of my grandparents, white rice is a luxury, "Kintomen" red rice, "Balatinao" black rice, "Tinawon" one year brown rice, and "Diket" glutenus rice, it was commonly grown in the Philippines Cordillera till the introduction of imported white rice varieties, my grandparents and even my parents younger years use to pound rice to remove the husk using mortar and pestel evermorning, just to prepare and cook rice for the whole day's needs,when there's a low harvest of rice, it is supplemented with sweet potatoes,cassava,plantains,taro roots,wild yams, as substitute with rice,but when threshing mashines and the introduction of highyealding white rice, all of the native rice loses its value, everybody don't need to work hard for preparing rice, all you need to do is buy from the market and cook it using electric rice cooker.
Be it white or brown, you'll still grow fat with overeating and lack of exercise.
Chris W 😂😂😂😂
Fact
Correct
Indeed right.
Jeff Cloud absolutely right, I know a lot of my friends going to the GYM not seen much results.
no. put some vegetables in white rice.
Like potatoes there is a simple way to lower their GI. Cook them, cool them in the fridge and they change from being easily turned into blood suger into a resistant starch. It remains like that even when you re heat it.
When I rinse white rice, the white starch comes out. When I rinse brown rice, nothing comes out. Is that rice nutritionist Miss Singapore?
Short answer:yes
24 min answer:yes
I’ve only had riceberry as a dessert cooked in coconut milk and egg custard on top.
I’ve never had it
260 calories per what? 100g? No that's 350 kcal. What unit of measurement do you even use?
+1 for investigative journalism
great video! I love and thank you for make me become more healter
I myself like BROWN RICE!!! A friend of mine told me if I cook the BROWN RICE in COCONUT OIL it will become softer!!!
@São João do mundo that's not true and that's your opinion!!!
Do you cook that with oil in a rice cooker? For us, we cook our rice by adding a little vinegar (in a rice cooker) and it lasts much longer without spoiling. 😄
@@weneedmoreconsideratepeopl4006 I cook my rice I'm a regular pot and it turns out great!!! Thanks for asking!!! I didn't know that vinegar helps to preserve the rice!!! TFS!!!
I don't even eat rice anymore but this series is so interesting
Brown rice has more nutrients than white rice. But it also is highest in arsenic
It depends on the place it's from.
That nutritionist is beauty af
This dude is a good presenter
Outstanding
But poor in fact presentation, many false equivalences and misrepresentation of scientific data even for mass consumption
I'm too lazy to cook rice everyday so what I did is cook a big batch of it and put it in a freezer and reheat it in a microwave once I need to eat one. The big difference is white rice when you re-heat it's like a plastic while brown rice when you re-heat just stays the same. So always opt for brown rice and It helps with my diabetes.
I'm using red rice.. I actually mixed it with white rice... but still we need to control our carbs intake..
brown rice is harder to digest for many people with stomach related issues such as IBS, IBD which pretty much includes millions of people.
In South India rice has two varieties i.e.Boiled Rice or Raw Rice Do you know about this ? Paddy is boiled with husk andafter drying the husk is removed. Then it is Boiled rice
Rice is bad? LOL. LIES! MARKETING LIES
My grandparents on both sides, rice and fruit farmers, ate 6-12 cups of rice/day and lived to their late 80s and early 90s with no cancer, hypertension or any serious disease.
My aunts and uncles are in their 70s are all rice eaters. The only ones who got diabetes or cancer, 4 of them out of 14, are the ones who drinks soda pop and statins daily.
My wife and I are in our 40s eating 4-10 cups white rice daily since we remember. No diabetes, hypertension or cancer. Id much rather avoid or eat minimally anything with refined sugar or high fructose corn syrup and any bread
Right, instead of nitpicking what type of rice best to eat. Might as well focus on what sugary food should be eliminated from diet. There is no use eating these rice while drinking bubble milk tea all the time, just eat fresh food and cut out processed food/drinks. Balanced diet is everything.
Well, your grandpa and ma, doing everything almost manually.
While we are now? Click that click this and voila.
No grain, no pain
No mention is made of the fact that rice, like all grains, is not freely given by the plant for people to eat. It's the next generation of the rice plant, and it tightly locks away the nutrients that are found in the bran and germ, tightly binding them to phytic acid so that they cannot be easily digested by humans who lack the phytase enzyme. So all of those precious vitamins and minerals simply pass through your body unabsorbed.
Also, the reason that rice was made into white rice in the first place had to do with the fact that the fats found in it (rice bran oil) is highly polyunsaturated, so tremendously vulnerable to oxidization. Storing it in its whole form for any reasonable length of time, say, from the time it is harvested to the time it makes it to your house, makes those fats rancid and toxic in their own right.
Honestly, grains are a lose-lose either way. Not only do they turn to sugar once you eat them, they bear a heavy burden of digestive woes and metabolic problems.
White rice has lower level of anti-nutrients and arsenic and is generally lower toxicity calories. If you combine it with other whole food plant based calories it is not that bad. You do not need more fiber if all your other calories provide more than 70 gr of fiber per day. It is even better to limit fiber, and other minerals because some of them can be more than 300% like iron copper and manganese. But of course if your grain part is white rice your other parts can be legumes, vegetables, fruits and other grain like oats.
brown or white rice (or any carb for that matters) doesn't really matter one bit, even eaten alone. the problem comes from what you eat with the rice. if white rice was a major factor in developing obesity, most countries in asia where rice has been the staple food would have been populated by overweight people for centuries.
the most important thing about a diet is to not mix carbs and fats at the same time. it's no coincidence that the only diets repeatedly tested to work for weight loss and control were either wholefood plant-based (high carb, very low fat diet) and ketogenic (very low carb, very high fat diet).
the reason behind this is that when having a meal mixing both carbs and fats, the insulin (made in response to the rise in blood glycemia) will cause both sugars and fats to enter into body cells, which then lowers the glycemia to a normal level as sugars leave the bloodstream. the main problem in this is that too much accumulating fat in body cells will cause them to become insulin resistant (if not immune in the case of a type2 diabetes). this won't happen after a single meal of course, but it certainly will after hundreds, and thousands of rich meals.
low fat diets work, as the very little fat that enter body cells is insufficient to disturb the insulin receptors (and a little fat is needed for normal body functions anyways), while a low carb, high fat diet works as it doesn't trigger any insulin spike (thus fat don't get into body cells in the first place).
GI is important to prevent spikes in blood glycemia (which will usually be followed by hypoglycemia unless you have diabetes), but that's it.