Asians Were Skinny On Rice For 1000s Of Years - Then Things Went Terribly Wrong - Doctor Explains

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  @drekberg · 6 years ago (edited) · pinned

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  @JanGeeY · 3 years ago

  I&apos;m Asian. My grandparents were very healthy and lived very long. Their lifestyle was very different so we cannot consider <br>Rice eating only. &nbsp;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 &nbsp;herbal teas every evening with honey or juggary, and never used &nbsp;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 &nbsp;8hr sleep. So it is not just the rice they ate made them.healthy, it is the whole lifestyle.

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• PL

  @plutoburn · 5 years ago

  Poor people were doing involuntary intermittent fasting their whole life.

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• TH

  @theaidemocracy · 6 years ago

  Or it could be that we are putting up McDonald’s on every corner and mall in Asia

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  @nidiashalabi2036 · 3 years ago

  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.

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  @maude9191 · 5 years ago

  As an Asian from a developing country, I can easily explain the reason why.<br>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. <br>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

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• RF

  @rfshields1 · 6 years ago

  I have said for many years, that the United States is the best in the world at processing food. &nbsp;I didn’t realize until recently that this a curse not a blessing.

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  @Momo-kq9hd · 5 years ago

  My grandfather lived till 97. He ate white rice three times a day. But he walked a lot everyday. He was very active. &nbsp;He was slim and healthy. I was a chubby kid. Because I loved coke and orange juice.

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• BO

  @bookofjapanese · 3 years ago

  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.

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• MR

  @MrLuigiFercotti · 3 years ago (edited)

  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&apos;s fine, and that being that skinny was the norm back then. Reality check.

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• GU

  @gula_rata · 6 years ago (edited)

  I am Japanese, from Okinawa, which is one of World&apos;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.

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  @ryanbuenviaje5809 · 5 years ago

  I still think it’s the increase in junk food, all the sugary drinks and the invention of TV.

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