/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>12239104
Fat first worlders have the lowest carbohydrate intake out of any major group on the planet, and in human history for that matter.

Eat some motherfuckin carbs

>>8006208
No, stop believing all the momscience you read on the internet. Eating too much meat every day is going to be bad for you, eating too much saturated fat is going to be bad for you, and eating meat with carbs in a meal is going to be unhealthy compared to eating only the carbs. Most people in the developed world consume way too much fat, protein and animal products and not enough carbohydrates, hence the epidemic of fatness, heart disease and diabetes.

With that being said, rice contains significant amounts of inorganic arsenic and there is controversy about the degree to which this causes adverse health affects at typical rice intake levels. Brown rice contains much more inorganic arsenic than white. So one thing you can consider is having other starches for variety... corn, potatoes, millet, beans, lentils, wheat, buckwheat, lots of options. White rice also contains the fewest nutrients out the major carb staples, although this is less relevant if you have access to vegetables, fruits and legumes.

>>8006258
I'm pretty sure half of the world population isn't overweight. Obesity and diabetes occur when people drop the carbs and start eating a bunch of fat and animal products instead, usually as a result of affluence. Nobody ever got fat eating a bunch of rice every day

>>7835967
Mexico has a high fat diet due to American influence and is barely even third world. Anyway, who would've guessed that some guy had to cherry-pick the one society out of a thousand that follows a high-fat diet on a limited budget because it has a bunch of fatties sitting on its head who throw burgers, KFC and butter over the fence. Amazing

>>7834018
French fries and chips are HIGH FAT FOODS, not carbs. Please fucking stop. French fries and chips are 50% calories from fat, which is twice more than what your daily average should be at most. Nobody ever got fat eating roast potatoes WITHOUT ADDED FAT, the only problem is that people are apparently incapable of eating potatoes without drenching them in oil/butter, and then blaming the potato for making them fat.

>>7833993
If you want a simplistic answer, carbs keep you lean, fat makes you fat. Look at the people around the world who are not suffering from obesity and diabetes, what do they eat? Rice, potatoes, bread, corn, plantains, beans, lentils... carbs up the ass, because they can't afford burgers, KFC, olive oil. And are they fat? No. The potatoes are fat, the people are slim

Carbs keep you slim, carbs are fuel, fat makes you fat and gives you heart disease and diabetes. Obesity, heart disease and diabetes exist in first-world nations where people consume low-carb high-fat diets with lots of animal products. These problems don't exist where people can only afford rice, plantains, corn, potatoes, but as many calories of it as they want. These are undeniable facts that make people uncomfortable even half a century since we first started understanding it.