White Rice Linked to Diabetes Risk

Sidesteal

My neighbor is Japanese and she eats rice every day of her life and she 64 I'll yell her to cut it down to every other day

LOL How did I miss this reply?

Can you please report back to us and let us know how this exchange goes?

Sidesteal

Sooo the millions of Asian across the globe that don't have diabetes from eating white rice....

Are living alongside the millions of Asians who DO have diabetes.....


"India is the country with the most people with diabetes, with a current figure of 50.8 million, followed by China with 43.2 million. Behind them the United States (26.8 million); the Russian Federation (9.6 million); Brazil (7.6 million); Germany (7.5 million); Pakistan (7.1 million); Japan (7.1 million); Indonesia (7 million) and Mexico (6.8 million). "
http://www.idf.org/latest-diabetes-figures-paint-grim-global-picture

Curious how these figures map out in terms of percentage of the population. I'm not educated on global populations but my assumption is that India and China have a crapload of people, so one would expect that they would have more diabetics. But, if the percentages are way off, maybe that'd be a better indicator?

I should probably check the above link.

Yes the figures do look different when you take into account population size:

Diabetics Population* %
India 50,800,000 1,210,193,422 4.2%
China 43,200,000 1,347,350,000 3.2%
US 26,800,000 313,195,000 8.6%
Russia 9,600,000 143,030,106 6.7%
Brazil 7,600,000 192,376,496 4.0%
Germany 7,500,000 81,796,000 9.2%
Pakistan 7,100,000 179,018,000 4.0%
Japan 7,100,000 127,770,000 5.6%
Indonesia 7,000,000 237,641,326 2.9%
Mexico 6,800,000 112,336,538 6.1%

From this it's clear that Germany and the US still have the highest proportion of diabetics in their population despite eating so much less white rice than the asian counties.

*population figures from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population

^ Thanks!

ninerbuff

Curious how these figures map out in terms of percentage of the population. I'm not educated on global populations but my assumption is that India and China have a crapload of people, so one would expect that they would have more diabetics. But, if the percentages are way off, maybe that'd be a better indicator?

I should probably check the above link.

Ding ding! I believe that in the Asian countries, about 2%-3% have diabetic issues, while in the US it's like 8%.


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ninerbuff

Sooo the millions of Asian across the globe that don't have diabetes from eating white rice....

Are living alongside the millions of Asians who DO have diabetes.....


"India is the country with the most people with diabetes, with a current figure of 50.8 million, followed by China with 43.2 million. Behind them the United States (26.8 million); the Russian Federation (9.6 million); Brazil (7.6 million); Germany (7.5 million); Pakistan (7.1 million); Japan (7.1 million); Indonesia (7 million) and Mexico (6.8 million). "
http://www.idf.org/latest-diabetes-figures-paint-grim-global-picture

Curious how these figures map out in terms of percentage of the population. I'm not educated on global populations but my assumption is that India and China have a crapload of people, so one would expect that they would have more diabetics. But, if the percentages are way off, maybe that'd be a better indicator?

I should probably check the above link.

Yes the figures do look different when you take into account population size:

Diabetics Population* %
India 50,800,000 1,210,193,422 4.2%
China 43,200,000 1,347,350,000 3.2%
US 26,800,000 313,195,000 8.6%
Russia 9,600,000 143,030,106 6.7%
Brazil 7,600,000 192,376,496 4.0%
Germany 7,500,000 81,796,000 9.2%
Pakistan 7,100,000 179,018,000 4.0%
Japan 7,100,000 127,770,000 5.6%
Indonesia 7,000,000 237,641,326 2.9%
Mexico 6,800,000 112,336,538 6.1%

From this it's clear that Germany and the US still have the highest proportion of diabetics in their population despite eating so much less white rice than the asian counties.

*population figures from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population

See how numbers can skew actual truth when some to discredit a staple of food..................................white rice baby!!


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Sidesteal

I'm going to fill my rice cooker today in honor of this thread

Firefighter_Jay

I bought a 1lbs bag of Cadbury MiniEggs yesterday in a moment of weakness. I bet I'll have diabetes by the end of today.

Sidesteal

I bought a 1lbs bag of Cadbury MiniEggs yesterday in a moment of weakness. I bet I'll have diabetes by the end of today.

You became pre-diabetic the moment you purchased them.

Firefighter_Jay

I bought a 1lbs bag of Cadbury MiniEggs yesterday in a moment of weakness. I bet I'll have diabetes by the end of today.

You became pre-diabetic the moment you purchased them.

Agreed

suziecue66

Link to full study, for those interested.

http://www.bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e1454

There's nothing wrong with observational studies. They are simply meant to be hypothesis generating rather than conclusive. (Would you pay for a multi-million dollar randomized controlled trial with no prior, population based evidence? If so, I have a RCT I'd like you to fund...)

Which is to say, the result is interesting. But doesn't really (or shouldn't really) say much about what any of us should be eating every day. Except, perhaps, not to eat too much (?).

Exactly - don't eat too much.