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Diet Foods with an Ethnic Slant

My observation regarding cultural diet foods. My grandfather used to drive a small Datsun car that we used to call ‘the rice rocket’. And many times I’ve been to Asia without ever understanding what that expression really meant with respects to diet foods. Then I chanced upon a poignant fact about how rice is a very good diet food.

Take a walk around any western city and look at the rearview of the people you pass. It could be New York, London, Toronto or Dallas. Honestly, there are a lot of really fat people. Seemingly the fast food is not a good diet food. I’m trying not to be offensive but stating a blatantly obvious and fairly well publicized fact. A lot of western people are obese. Are we eating the best diet foods?

Then look at a typical street scene in an Asian city like Bangkok, Tokyo or Singapore. There are some overweight Asian people but the obesity percentage is much less. Why would that be? Do the fast food chains serve better diet foods there?

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We called my grandfather’s Datsun the rice rocket because oriental people were sometimes referred to as ‘rice-burners’ because rice is the staple grain in an Asian diet. (I suppose that might be deemed as derogatory and if it is an ethnic slur then I’m sorry. I just wanted to show how my thinking reached an AHA moment in terms of diet foods.) Anyways, if Oriental people are predominantly ‘rice-burners’ then Occidentals are wheat-burners, barley-burners or oats-burners because those grains are the food staple in the western diet. And people in Africa would be millet-burners because millet is the staple grain in Africa – let’s not leave anyone out in this diet foods post.

People in Asia and Africa are generally leaner than those in the west and guess what? Rice and millet are very good diet foods that encourage the body to burn fat, but wheat, oats and barley are poor diet foods that do the reverse. Could this be a partial cause of the western obesity epidemic?

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Why don’t we notice things like this? God forbid that our esteemed established western media should ever mention this when cereal companies are big money advertisers.

Anyways, do watch this informative diet foods video.

<<—<< Click the ‘After’ Picture to See the ‘Before’ and to learn more about rice as an amazing fat-burning diet food.

And think about what you want to be eating.

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