How does rice contribute to weight gain?

I heard from highly respectable sources in the scientific community that the only other way would be to rub a sumo wrestler's leg right after he eats 5 bowls of rice.

gcdn wrote: »

Guys,I need some help here.I was talking to my Aunty who lost a huge amount of weight (app 20-30kg).But anyway she told me she stopped eating rice,especially white rice and now resorted to a fist size portion of white basmati rice.She said once she starts eating rice,she'll grow horizontally.Bread doesn't cause the same effect tho. Well,this is new to me and I've searched all over google but couldn't find anything related to this.Personally,I too stopped eating rice but I don't grow horizontally like she does.Even after months of not eating rice,I can down one full plate of rice without any bad effects.Any ideas guys?

I eat rice almost daily and I am not growing in anyway. I think just eating at a calorie deficit is the answer to losing weight. Of course, there are many dietary alternations one can make. Choose the combinations that work best for you.

I just copied an article excerpt from the thread "good news for people who like to eat fat". It's a study done at Ohio state, and just published this week:

"looking at palmitoleic acid, however, the scientists found that it consistently decreased on the high-fat/low-carb diet in all participants. The fatty acid then showed a step-wise increase in concentration in the blood as carbs were progressively added to the diet. Elevated levels of palmitoleic acid in the blood have been linked to obesity and higher risk for inflammation, insulin resistance, impaired glucose tolerance, metabolic syndrome, type-2 diabetes, heart disease and prostate cancer.

The study does not address what happens to palmitoleic acid levels when high carbs are combined with a diet high in saturated fat. Instead, Volek hoped to identify the carb-intake point at which participants began to store fat.

“That turned out to be highly variable,” he said. “Everyone showed increased palmitoleic acid levels as carbs increased, but values varied widely between individuals, especially at the highest carb intake. This is consistent with the idea that people vary widely in their tolerance to carbohydrates.”

Participants’ existing health risks were not a factor in the study because everyone ate the exact same diet for 18 weeks. Their bodies’ responses to the food were the focus of the work."

http://news.osu.edu/news/2014/11/21/study-doubling-saturated-fat-in-the-diet-does-not-increase-saturated-fat-in-blood/

I really cant imagine rice being fattening, it is the easiest to digest grain. maybe white rice because it is more refined/ without its husk? I eat sweet-brown rice a lot and don't gain weight, but I cant eat bread very well.
peoples metabolisms and genetics are different though,

A lot of people think that if something works for them, it will work for everyone else.

Your aunt may have had a problem with rice. If eating rice caused her to want more and more rice, she may have eliminated it and found life to be much easier and weight much easier to lose. If she's one of those folks who think that everyone else is exactly like them, she may naturally assume that her solutions will work for everyone.

But everyone is different. You have to find what works for you.