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Why are Asians so skinny? Anonymous
Don't they always eat rice, too? They must not process their rice as much as normal white rice is then.
>> Anonymous
it is called genetics, you cant escape it.
>> Anonymous
GENETICS DURR DURR DURR
>> Anonymous
Well if its only 3 bowls of rice a day, and one dried up fish...

What do you think their figure would be?


Also rice is full of cellulose. And most of that end up not being digested and comes out as poop.
>> Anonymous
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LOL WUT?
>> Anonymous
ITT: Stereotypes.
>> Anonymous
>>234661

Genetics? Sounds like an excuse for overweight Americans.
>> Anonymous
>>234683

Sounds like another uneducated underage euro troll.
>> Anonymous
>>234680
It's not a stereotype anymore if the vast majority fit it (slender and petite)
>> Anonymous
>>234685

The majority of Americans are overweight because of genetics?

Surely it's something else. Like eating habits.
>> Anonymous
>>234689
hey eurotrash, you're the one who brought up americans, everyone else is talking about asians
>> Anonymous
>They must not process their rice as much

Why are so many of you faggots obsessed with "processing?" Humans have been processing their food for thousands and thousands of years.

People aren't fatasses because our food is processed. We're fat because the best exercise we get is the walk from the couch to the refrigerator.
>> Anonymous
>>234689
No. Asians are just generally smaller. You don't magically get a SMALLER FRAME by eating fish and rice.
>> Anonymous
OP, you talking about racial asians or people living in asia? Big difference here...
>> Anonymous
>>234691

gets it
>> Anonymous
>>234694

People living in Asia.
>> Anonymous
>>234694
What, exactly, is a racial Asian? Are you saying that a plump, compact Korean is the same 'race' as a slender, wiry Thai?
>> Anonymous
>>234691

Because processed food has less nutritional content than unprocessed food.

White rice is not in the same league as brown rice. Regardless of how much an individual exercises.

Plus, people typically eat more processed food now rather than unprocessed, which is bad.
>> Anonymous
They don't eat dairy?
>> Anonymous
>>234700
first of all, the concept of "race" is highly flawed. Ethnicity is a much more accurate concept. I said race so that OP would understand it in layman's term. I assumed when Op said "race" he meant people who's genetics are closely related and originate from Asia. But Op clarified that he meant ppl living in asia, so ethnicity or race doesn't matter. As for OP, I would have to say culture and lifestyle reasons has to be the reason why asians are skinny, they're not really skinny, but they're much healthier than americans statistics wise.
>> Anonymous
WHY DO BLACK PEOPLE HAVE DARK SKIN?
>> Anonymous
>>234704
But what do you mean by 'processed'? Where rice is concerned, humans have a ~10,000 history of hulling, milling, grinding, washing, boiling, straining, frying, baking, and molding the stuff.

As a group, Westerners started becoming generally overweight about 70 years ago. As a group, Asians have been eating white rice since... well, since agriculture was invented. So it's obviously not the process of milling brown rice into white rice that magically causes people to become fat.

My main point, though, is that the blanket term 'processed' is used way too much around here. And it's frequently used with an implication that 'processing' is some sinister, recent technology foisted upon our poor helpless bodies by evil companies like Nabisco, Kraft, and ADM.

Are some additions to food bad? Yes. Are some of these companies evil? Yes. But 'processing' can mean anything from a caveman peeling an onion to McDonalds whipping water, milk solids and carrageenan into a delicious milkshake.
>> Anonymous
>>234725
>~10,000 YEAR history

fixed
>> Anonymous
>>234725

*applause*
>> Anonymous
Haaaaa. I'm asian, and I never liked rice-therefore, I never ate it.
All asians eatting rice and being skinny are all sterotypes. The majority of asians are skinny because being obese is scrutinized. If you are overweight, you face a greater chance of being unemployed because in oriental countries like Japan, image is everything.
It is funny though, I weigh 85 pounds (I am 5'2")-which my culture considers average, but in America doctor s are like, "YOU ARE TOO UNDERWEIGHT. You are too skinny according to the US's BMI standards because we are fatasses."
>> Anonymous
>>234725

Okay? Then you're just mad at the term being overly used (like "toning").

But white rice is still not as good as brown rice.

Potato chips are still not as good as potatoes.

etc.
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>>234741

>Haaaaa. I'm asian.
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i'm asian and not skinny :( i'm 5'8 205lbs.. weight lifter obviously but j/w am i considered fat? I'm above average in strength for a 19year old i believe.. 275lb 4x on bench 145lb 3x curl 315 4x squat..

pic related its me
>> Anonymous
>pic related its me

YOU'RE the best!
>> Anonymous
THEN WHO WAS BEST?
>> Anonymous
>>234761
I Ror'd
>> Anonymous
>>234753
It's not so much that it's overused, but that most fags here have no idea what they actually mean when they say that something is 'processed' and therefore bad.

>But white rice is still not as good as brown rice. Potato chips are still not as good as potatoes.

I don't disagree, but to illustrate my point: 1) Cooked (i.e. processed) potatoes are superior to uncooked potatoes because uncooked potatoes are inedible. 2) Brown rice is superior to unhulled (i.e. non-processed) rice because unhulled rice is nearly inedible.
>> Anonymous
>>234773
You fail.
Uncooked potatoes are edible and delicious.
GTFO.
>> Anonymous
>>234777

enjoy your nightshade poisoning
>> Anonymous
>>234773

Okay. Then people just need to be better educated on what "processed" means.

Since America doesn't have good health programs, I don't see it happening though.
>> Wanker
Skinny Asiam women make great lovers
>> Wanker
Lean Asian women make great lovers
>> Anonymous
>>234777
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1995, Tagliabue, et al
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/61/5/1070

Raw potato starch is 54% resistant starch, which is not absorbed as glucose in the small intestine.
>> Anonymous
Look at a second generation asian in america, they're taller, and generally fatter than their parents. It's not genetic in this case.

It's mostly social pressure, different foods, lower relative income, and better general education on the matter from what I've gathered so far.
>> Anonymous
asians genetically have the best carbohydrate tolerance due to thousands of years of eating rice

their diet culturally are less abundant in protein however, therefore then tend to carry less muscle on their frames
>> Anonymous
>>234779
Do you have any idea how difficult it is to poison yourself from potato skins? You have to eat a ton of the incredibly bitter green parts to get poisoned, especially with how well-engineered they are now.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato#Toxic_compounds_in_potatoes
>> Anonymous
I went to a local Asian market the other day on a mission to find nutrition. Aside from died up fish full the fuck with cholesterol, everything in there was fucking carbohydrates in every processed form possible. Loads of fat as well. And every Asian I know eats boatloads of food at every meal yet are still thin as rails.
>> Anonymous
>>234814
how about added fructose? I've always figured that that was far more of a problem than excess fat/cholesterol/carbohydrates in other forms ever since I read this one study where they found that rats that consume fructose-sweetened water actually consumed less calories overall, but still gained fat, whereas the control did not.