The “Asian Paradox”: How Can Asians Eat So Much Rice and Not Gain Weight?

February 1, 2012

pimg class=”alignright” title=”Eating Rice” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA%202011/eatingrice.jpg” alt=”eatingrice” width=”319″ height=”281″ /How the Primal community loves the concept of a dietary paradox. How we eagerly point to its various manifestations as supportive evidence for our way of eating, living, and moving. You know the a title=”French Paradox” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_paradox” target=”_blank”French Paradox/a and how it confounds the experts. To mention all those smug a title=”Cheese-eating surrender monkeys” href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese-eating_surrender_monkeys” target=”_blank”surrender monkeys/a with their brie and their butter and their duck confit and their Gauloises and their seeming imperviousness to heart attacks is to make Dean Ornish binge on bran and pull out tuft after tuft of frizzy hair. And then there#8217;s the lesser-known a title=”Diet and disease–the Israeli paradox: possible dangers of a high omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid diet.” href=”http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8960090″ target=”_blank”Israeli Paradox/a, which attempts to answer why Israelis have skyrocketing rates of heart disease despite a skyrocketing intake of #8220;healthy#8221; omega-6 fatty acids. In its wake, Walter […]

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