there really is a rise. my parents have always sought after the chinese herbal solution as cures. on their last trip to china, they found out a huge array of new chinese herbal drugs suppositely helping cure diabetes or at least control it. Probably not as great at those "ling ji" mushroom cure alls out there, but there's quite a bit. diabetes in chinese is literally "sugar piss" and if u ask around, there are a lot more cases now more than ever.
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Originally Posted by kAzE-
I agree with everything you said but just had an issue with singling out rice. I believe the issue with diabetes is not that Chinese people eat rice, it's because we had developing bad eating habits and consuming all the processed foods that you had previously mentioned.
In my experience, I know very few chinese individuals with diabetes. I was taken a back when a there is a statement suggesting that diabetes is epidemic among the Chinese population.
What I noticed from all the posts is that everyone is in agreement that simple carbs are bad and complex carbs are good. Everyone is just repeating this message in a different way.
In my opinion, diets that recommend low carbs are easy for the lay person to understand because they do not need to analyze whether the food they are eating had been processed to hell; all they need to do is avoid most carbs. When you are trying to influence a mass amount of people, simple messages are generally the most effective.
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