response to this Colpo quote?

[newtolowcarb]

I do not want to discuss Mr. Colpo personally just a response to this quote I found on his web site. Again, I am only interested in responses to his arguments. I could care less about his approach, demeanor etc...

Anthony Colpo writes:
:If carbohydrates and not calories were the final arbiters of weight gain, then why do the white rice-devouring Japanese enjoy lower rates of obesity than most Western countries, despite consuming a higher percentage of their calories as carbohydrate? It certainly ain’t the supercharged metabolism-boosting effect of soy sauce! No-one in the low-carb camp seems to want to address this uncomfortable contradiction to the anti-carb hypothesis. Out of sight, out of mind, I guess."

thoughts?

[Gaelen]

There are lots of "quotes" floating around the world and the 'net. There are also many reasons that the Japanese used to experience a lower rate of obesity than Westerners, although they consume a higher-than-lowcarb amount of rice. Those things include smaller portions, different eating customs, and consuming less fat with the carbohydrates. However, as soon as the Western diet began making inroads into Japan (the king, the clown and the colonel - Burger King, McD's and KFC), the obesity rate went up, right along with portion sizes, changes in eating customs and the consumption of fat-laced carbs.

That's my comment on this out-of-context quote.

[Roadstr]

A higher percentage of carbs will not make one obese as calories do have something to do with it... but there's more to it and those things are your metabolism, culture, time to prepare food, I'll stop there. Its the added fats and dishes that's the problem.You can eliminate any one or two of the macro nutrients, or let me say drastically reduce them... and reduced weight. You can eat rice and loose weight, I don't think anyone has said one could not. The issue is would you want to. Have you read "Protein Power" to understand the problem insulin causes?


I do not want to discuss Mr. Colpo personally just a response to this quote I found on his web site. Again, I am only interested in responses to his arguments. I could care less about his approach, demeanor etc...

Anthony Colpo writes:
:If carbohydrates and not calories were the final arbiters of weight gain, then why do the white rice-devouring Japanese enjoy lower rates of obesity than most Western countries, despite consuming a higher percentage of their calories as carbohydrate? It certainly ain’t the supercharged metabolism-boosting effect of soy sauce! No-one in the low-carb camp seems to want to address this uncomfortable contradiction to the anti-carb hypothesis. Out of sight, out of mind, I guess."

thoughts?

[mcsblues]

A higher percentage of carbs will not make one obese ..., I'll stop there.
Wish you had.

Have you read "Protein Power" to understand the problem insulin causes?
Have you?

[laughingW]

Anthony Colpo writes:
:If carbohydrates and not calories were the final arbiters of weight gain, then why do the white rice-devouring Japanese enjoy lower rates of obesity than most Western countries, despite consuming a higher percentage of their calories as carbohydrate? Colpo is being imprecise about measures. A higher percent of calories could still be lower carb than the US, if calories were low.

Eades talks about grams of carb per body condition and activity level, and if there are excess carbs, there will be trouble.

Colpo seems to be talking about percent of calories without saying how many calories and what activity level, thus you can't compare with Eades' discussion.

[johntheobald]

I lived in Hawaii for 30 years and observed the eating habits of many of the very thin Chinese and Japanese who ate prodigious amounts of rice frequently holding bowls next to their mouths and literal shoveling it in with chopsticks. I also wondered how they stayed so thin. It certainly was not portion control. Not questioning the healthfulness of low carb but this certainly is an anomaly.