In Japan they also eat truckloads of white rice, and they are generally quite healthy. I do not thing that being a dietician gives you much authority to commen

In Japan they also eat truckloads of white rice, and they are generally quite healthy. I do not thing that being a dietician gives you much authority to comment on the cross-cultural socioeconomics of nutrition, sorry. The claim that the Chinese are fat and unhealthy because they are force-fed empty calories remains unproven.