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Originally Posted by toastedsmoke
Take my mother's village for example, it's really rural, riverine, there are no fast food joints or anything. The diet is heavy on fish and even heavier on starches. Yams, starch flours, plantains, rice, potatoes etc in large quantities with a side of seafood. The people are fishermen and farmers. But when my mom was little, they had manual boats and canoes that they'd actually row into the ocean to fish (don't ask).
Yeah, I saw similar things in China. White noodles, white rice, white buns, fruit, sweetened foods, etc with a side of veggies/meat. Carbs, carbs, carbs yet everyone was skinny. You did see some chunky people in Beijing where they had started to adopt fast food restaurants and more westernized food. Even then though, it was only some slight chunkiness, not obesity. Also, one of my better weight loss weeks was when I was in China eating lots of rice, noodles and sweets as well. I was pretty amazed.