> feel free to visit any SE Asian country where rice is well over 50% of meals by volume and obesity levels are low. Hello from a SE Asian country. Not much ob

> feel free to visit any SE Asian country where rice is well over 50% of meals by volume and obesity levels are low. Hello from a SE Asian country. Not much obesity here. Huge amount of diabetes though. I've heard it's genetic - European and African ancestry puts on fat externally, while Asians tend to store fat internally (visceral fat) which is invisible but just as dangerous.