Reply #42: Too much white rice & noodles and too few vegetables has spiked Asian diabetes rates in recent years

[El Pinko]

I obviously don't think processed starches are the same as candy, but too much processed white starches can be problematic, even without obesity.

Beriberi was a common disease little over a century ago because so many Asians were subsisting on vitamin-depleted white rice without the variety of foods needed for adequate thiamine intake... (If only they had know that eating brown rice instead would have prevented beriberi, too...