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

Still don't understand America's school busing. Kids can walk at least 2 miles per day. I walked probably 2.5 to 3 miles/day for 6 days week for school during grammar school. It didn't kill me. Still had a plenty of energy to play soccer.

How do you know? Felt up a lot of shirtless Asian boys?

Yep. In Asian culture fat = lazy, binging = greed, sitting idle = waste, driving to walkable places = uselessness. Most American norms would be despised by Asians. Most Asians are racists from the American viewpoint.

Emotional pain can exacerbate overeating but is not the primary cause, rather people overeat fundamentally because

1) their leptin/ghrelin hormonal balance is a bit off, by even just a few tens of calories per day, which makes them no longer capable of recognizing hunger and satiety signals accurately;

2) of the abundant availability of cheap calories and minimal caloric expenditure, which was never the case through most of history and is also why you never see even non-morbidly obese people in videos of hunter gatherer tribes, not even a single one, coz they have to work hard just to eat enough for survival.

Asians in Asia on average are just as susceptible to #1 but far less so to #2, and in fact #1 may be in good part caused by #2.

Most places in the US are not pedestrian friendly. Many streets don't have any side walks, and many intersections don't have traffic signals. And drivers are rude, obnoxious and merciless. Kids cannot walk safely to and from schools.

Here is the problem with the argument over processed foods: There is only one nation more obese than the US - Mexico. They are not nearly as heavily dependent on processed foods. It is all about volume. Now, the fact that processed foods are not nutritionally dense adds to the problem, but it is still all about volume.

“Processed foods” is a bogeyman yes, but Mexico does drink an ungodly amount of soda. One could argue Coke owes them reparations.

This is where evil US corporations screw them. I saw something on Youtube where they drink a ton of soda. I mean gallons of it per week. I forget something about it's 'safer' than drinking their unsanitary water. Just imagine all that sugar in the body. Diabetes.

I avoided this thread because I sensed that it would not answer any questions and when I skimmed most of the responses I was vindicated regarding my preconception. There are quite a few uneducated guesses, a few educated guesses, a few with grains of truth in them, but nothing which definitely answers the question. As with almost everything else, it is going to come down to genetics and environment, with both playing some role. Genetics are not so much within our sphere of control, environment maybe somewhat in our control, but not as much as we sometimes think. We do not have all the answers as we are largely groping in the dark. We should always strive to remain open to learning though.

Mexico is getting better with soda consumption once word got out you shouldn't drink it like water, and now there's a soda tax.

The most diabetic country in the world is actually China. Asians have a higher rate of diabetes at a smaller waist size/BMI. So eating white rice with a traditional varied diet of vegetables, fish and small amounts of pork/beef is fine, but once you add in KFC with fries one day of the week and ice cream and soda, then you have diabetes.

It is actually pretty tough to eat enough to become obese on a traditional Japanese diet. Their diet is hugely rice based, and the volume of rice is almost always greater than whatever is included in the rest of the meal. While rice is very starchy, it doesn't actually contain all that many calories (it's largely water), and it would be very difficult to eat 1500+ calories of it in a single sitting.

Something I have noticed about food and travel in more general terms is that in most parts of the world, people view food as sustenance and have little tendency to overeat. Having a giant feast or eating a huge amount in one sitting is never a goal or something that ever crosses anyone's mind. Whereas in the US, it's very common for people to eat enormous portions, even of extremely rich foods (think of many of the deserts at restaurants). Eating something like a 12oz steak, mashed potatoes with butter, veggies, a drink, then ending it with a 1000+ calorie desert is something that literally never happens ever in most places outside the US.

This is false. The most obese countries on Earth are the island nations of the Pacific. Want to see the people with the highest average BMIs ? Go to Tonga, Nauru, Samoa.

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Why the Pacific Islands are the Most Obese Nations in the World

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Regardless of what type of food one eats, ultimately we have to match the caloric quantity to the quantity of calories burned by activity. Some people, and some cultures, do this better than others.

“In non-Western cultures, where traditional diets predominantly consist of unprocessed foods and are low in sugar, it takes only one generation of people eating a more typical Western diet, high in sugar and refined flour, to become predisposed to obesity and develop diabetes,” she added."

The Western diet for Asians is a slower version of blankets riddled with smallpox.

Because they have camps like this?

This forum must be full of bored middle aged men with tubby bellies.

Who told you that? China is just over 10% and about the same as the US and is ranked 57th here. I don’t know where this seemingly common myth of “but India and China have very high rates of diabetes” comes from. They are both lower than the US.

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Diabetes Rates by Country 2023 - Wisevoter

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Diabetes rates vary greatly around the world. Pakistan has the highest diabetes rate at 30.8%, followed by Kuwait at 24.9%, and Nauru, New Caledonia, and the Northern Mariana Islands, all at 23.4%. On the other hand, countrie...

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Meanwhile in Somalia, parents of the means send their kids to Fat Camp to fatten them up like their Chinese counterparts; wonder if there’s a fat redistribution business model in here.

1. Our diets revolve around meat and fast food.

2. There's not "food culture" in America (besides meat and fast food)

3. Google "Hara Hachi Bu" it the Japanese concept of eating until 80% full.