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The Effects of White Rice on Type 2 Diabetes

Asian populations tend to have more visceral fat at a given BMI yeah i think that's also true and i also think maybe it's sometimes the eating this diet of so much white rice was such a highly semi-cobohydrate even though when they start to gain weight their beta cells in their pancreas have been so kind of overworked for most of their life still functional. If you push that over the top you add the oils and the grease and the animal products and more refined carbohydrates more soda more honey then they're going to get full gets diabetes at a lower body weight than a person who's had a maybe a has gained weight in a different way.

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