If carbs & grains are so fattening why are asians slimmer than western people?

Don't bring the rest of the west in to the obesity issues of the US

Never been to Asia? What are you talking about? That photo was taken in New York, not Asia.

Simple. Because Asians just eat carbs, and Americans eat lots of sweets in addition to carbs.

Carbs plus every day eating:

1 Frappuccino

1 Soda

1 Donut

1 Cookie

Equals fat.

The scientific consensus on LR is that pigs and Asians are highly intelligent creatures with family values.

England has the highest rate of obesity in Europe, at around 33% of the population. That's not much lower than in the U.S.

And in Japan, at least, low-intensity physical activity is built into people's daily lives. The cities and towns are structured so that nearly all daily necessities -- and train stations -- are within walking or biking distance of most people's homes.

Nearly every day, young Japanese mothers fly by me on electric-assist bikes with 2 small kids and groceries on board.

Americans, by contrast, are wholly dependent on the automobile.

And although Japanese do like their sweets, those sweets aren't nearly as laden with sugar as the sweets that Americans eat. I much prefer Japanese chocolate to the sickeningly sweet crap available in the U.S.

Absolutely true. The servings in Japan are much smaller than in the U.S. That's especially true of desserts.

Yes indeed.

People pick things they don't like an blame them for whatever the problem may be.

they are either eating far less than you think or exercising far more

the ectomorph endomorph stuff is BS

Cool 4chan/fit thread.

Ok then look at Japan. 3% Obesity rate vs 35% obesity rate for the USA. Yet they have the same rate for the beetus. So go ahead and eat your 1800 calories of rice and 200 calories of gutter trout like the typical asian and enjoy your beetus and beri beri on top of that.

I've done a fair bit of traveling around Asia (Japan, China, Korea and SE Asia) for work and married into an Asian family. Most Asian cultures are absolutely brutal to fat people. In many places people are openly hostile to overweight people. For most Asians fat = lazy, especially the older generations, and that's fair game to call someone out on. I've been in business meetings and they will literally call an overweight individual the "fat guy" in front of everyone with the individual in the room. Then the "fat guy" will apologize to everyone in the room! Asian mothers would be considered down right abusive by western standards on the way they talk to their kids about being fat, especially their daughters. You hear Asian mothers constantly reprimanding their daughters about what and how much they eat or they're going to get fat, like it's the most shameful thing that could possibly happen to their family.

The point being is there is a lot of societal pressure in Asia for people not to get fat, despite what you might see in public many Asians are very careful about how much they eat. Having said this there are more fat people in Asia now too, it's definitely becoming more common. The modern diet and lifestyle comes for everyone eventually.

Asia is a very big part of the world and diets in different Asian countries, as well as obesity rates are very different. Assuming you mean East Asia though, even then it's hard to answer. They probably eat less calories than the typical "western" diet, eat more fruits and vegetables, more fermented foods, drink less alcohol, less dairy, and probably many other reasons.

Anti-grain discourse is a cope by Americans to justify the sheer amount of low-grade meat they consume on a daily basis because they would rather be r*tards than admit they were wrong. People will reply to this comment twisting themselves into pretzels trying to explain how eating a ridiculous amount of meats loaded with fats, nitrites, sodium, and more protein than any athlete would reasonably need somehow makes you healthy even though every single blue zone is dominated by plant-based diets.

Thinking hard burns a lot of calories

People around the world eat lots of carbs and have no problem with their weight. Between breakfast, lunch and dinner, French people eat about an entire baguette every day. Italians eat piles of pasta. Rice is a staple across Asia. Ethiopians have injera with most meals and Kenyans love their ugali, both are high in carbs.

The standard American diet is unique almost every other countries' diet in that we have managed to turn almost every meal from simple meals and manageable calories (corn flakes for breakfast, sandwich and an apple for lunch, "meat and three" for dinner) to massive calorie bombs of fat and sugars. When I was a little kid in the 1970s, most everyone was normal weight. If you worked at it, you could get fat. But most everyone drank soda, ate burgers and fries, ice cream, etc. and were still a normal weight. But back then, there were no Chipotle giant burritos, no Starbucks venti frappacinos with whip cream and caramel sauce and so on. American food portions got enormous and packed with sugars and fats in order to make people happy when they eat. That is because people in the US work all the time and have no time for anything else (especially if you have kids). So, food has become our sole source of pleasure. Meals are your reward for getting through your morning drudgery at work and for finish up at work and dealing with taking the kids to sports, etc. Even your morning coffee now has as much calories as people used to have for dinner. When the Standard American Diet was introduced to American Samoa, the locals almost immediately because obese. And Samoans were very found of their carbs with a lot of taro in their diets.

I'm Vietnamese and I think Asians tend to be slimmer because we eat less processed food, eat meals family style, so people share portions and have a strong fat shaming culture. Asians in Asia don't like to eat out often and prefer home-cooked meals because it is much cheaper. We also prefer to eat fish because it is very accessible. It keeps a lot of us slim compared to eating a mostly beef/chicken diet. We do have plenty of fat people, but they are more of the older and middle-aged generation. The young, fat people get body shamed severely, so they are pressured to lose weight and diet. Body positivity is not really a thing in Asia. If you're obese or overweight then you're seen as lazy loser who will not amount to anything and end up living with their parents forever.

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