White Rice Linked to Diabetes Risk

This must be freak-out Friday. Relax people. The world is going to end this year anyway. So eat all the rice you want.

Seriously? Pretty sure Julius Caesar is proof that those Mayans are way off! If it weren't for him changing the calendar, we'd be in 2013 (or something like that) right now, past the date the Mayans set... research.

At first I laughed my butt off at Taso...and then I was like, what? Someone took him serious here and told him to research? So I had to laugh a little more. :bigsmile:

I don't have diabetes and I enjoy rice all the time. As ninerbuff said, you have to control your portions. Most people don't know what a real portion size of rice or pasta really is. They just dump a huge glob on their plate...

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

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

This is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this on the news last night...

I hate rice, but I'm not sure why.

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

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!

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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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.

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