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There's just one thing I don't get... Too much carbohydrates are supposed to be bad. Too much soy is supposed to be bad. But the Japanese live the longest, so o
by tomp 11y ago
There's just one thing I don't get... Too much carbohydrates are supposed to be bad. Too much soy is supposed to be bad. But the Japanese live the longest, so obviously they can't be that bad. So one of these assumptions must be false:
- Japanese eat a lot of rice and/or soy (or products made from them)
- Japanese have different genetics that allows them to avoid the negative effects of carbs/soy.
We could probably throw fish (mercury) in the mix as well.
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- dmm 11y agoHow much of the japanese diet is actually made up of soy? The numbers I've seen are <5%.
- lifeformed 11y agoIt seems like it'd be much more than the 100-200g/wk that they suggest. In China or Taiwan, every day you could drink a big bowl of soy milk for breakfast, and for lunch/dinner eat some mapo tofu, stir fried bean curd sticks, etc.
- ekianjo 11y agoI confirm it should be more than that. Miso soup is a daily dish in Japan for about one or 2 meals, and it usually contains 20g of Tofu at least. Then there's soy beans, used in many delicacies, soy sauce used for sushi, a number of dressing using soy as a base... 100-200g/week actually seem a rather low estimate in Japan.
- SolaceQuantum 11y agoActually the Japanese and also many Chinese are running into problems with health because of high salt and such. Soy not as much, and I don't really believe the breast cancer stuff or east asian countries would be the no.1 place for those kinds of cancers.
- jp555 11y agoYou think it's salt and not increasing obesity rates?
- noondip 11y ago> Too much carbohydrates are supposed to be bad. Carbohydrates are your body and brain's preferred energy source. What makes you think consuming too many is, "bad"? If derived from whole plant sources, carbs are fantastic and shouldn't be restricted.
- jp555 11y agoby the time it hits the bloodstream the carbs in an apple and those in a bowl of lucky charms are identical. it's all broken down into identical fructose and glucose molecules.
- noondip 11y agoThe processes by which the two "hit the bloodstream" are quite different. For example, an apple has fiber and phytonutrients which slow the absorption of glucose. Whole fruits are so unlike processed breakfast cereals, I think it's a stretch to say their metabolization is identical.
- jp555 11y agoyep, but 100i/h for 1h vs 10i/h for 10h is the same amount of energy in the end. I didn't mean to say the metabolization is the same at all, and absolutely fibre makes a huge difference, but that's a different macro nutrient from the sugar (fructose/glucose) content.