/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>7863022
>Asians eat eggs almost in every meal and they have the highest longevity rates. explain that..
Traditional Asian diets, including those of China, Japan, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Korea, are extremely high-carb low-fat diets and most certainly do not involve eating eggs daily, let alone in every meal. The image to the left shows some dietary data we have from 1957. As you can see, Japan and Ceylon are listed as deriving 2-3% of their energy from animal fat. That's 5 to 8 grams of animal fat for a 2500 calorie diet. 2 large eggs provide 11 grams of animal fat, therefore twice as much as an average Asian would have consumed in an entire day 60 years ago.

Modern Asian diets incorporate a lot more animal products and fat, including eggs, while reducing carb intake, and we're seeing an almost 1-to-1 rise in obesity and diabetes rates.
So modern Asians are not healthy, in fact over 25% of the Chinese population is now overweight. Their carb intake has dropped from 80% in the 50s to 70% in the 80s to 60% in the 2000s.

>>7708017
Because they eat high-carb diets with limited animal products

I agree with you that whole grains aren't that big a deal when it comes to obesity and diabetes. Whole grains are nutritionally superior because of their much higher micronutrient content and fiber content, the latter of which is known to have a protective effect.

As an example, the lack of thiamine in white rice has in past centuries caused many cases of beriberi, and there are beriberi cases to this day resulting from white rice consumption in the context of an inadequate diet.

So it doesn't help much if you're getting crippling nutritional deficiencies from refining your grains. In the context of an otherwise adequate diet, white rice is fine, but its nutritional profile is still piss-poor. If the higher palatability of refined grains can get people to drop the butter and ketostix, that would be a good first step, but it hasn't happened so far.

>>7706891
Sorry I didn't type out a textbook on /ck/