For healthy individuals - I agree 100%. Beef spikes insulin as much as rice? Well not for me (and I suspect most people). I can eat a steak without raising my

For healthy individuals - I agree 100%. Beef spikes insulin as much as rice? Well not for me (and I suspect most people). I can eat a steak without raising my blood glucose at all - one bowl of rice and it jumps 100mg/dl. There's not a lot of good data on glucose spikes. It's a discussion I've had with my endocrinologist a number of times. He suspects it's not bad for occasional incidents as long as A1C isn't affected but again it's not been studied yet. Sure, eat less. It's that easy - I guess the 90% of people overweight are just stupid. You last statement is very true however. People and doctors want to do the simple thing. For doctors it's meds and then when they don't work well enough it's insulin and then more and more insulin. That's a hamster wheel that people need to get off.