This is probably the best time to discuss diet and nutrition related to the health of an individual. I have to admit this: Being Asian, I am a rice eater. In my youth I ate rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. It provided a lot of energy and it was easy to cook. All you need is take a scoop of it to your heart's content, fill it with some sauce or leave it plain, and, combined with some meat or fish, you would have your fill to last you till next meal. I guess it works up to a certain point. At a certain age, the body would find a hard time to break down our loads of carbohydrates and sugar in our system.
Carbohydrates and sugar require insulin to break down. Insulin is produced by pancreas. Sometimes the body, when forced to contend with too much carbs and sugar forces itself to produce more insulin that it becomes inefficient. Then the person has to introduce outside insulin to help it. That's what's called insulin-dependent diabetes and it's a very dangerous disease. Diabetes can lead to other medical problems: it can lead to blindness, numbness of legs, weakness, hypoglycemia and hyperglycemia, heart diseases, increase triglycerides and cholesterol, stroke, heart attack, and occasionally depression and the feeling of helplessness.
All these because of over-carbohydrat-ing oneself. The mechanics of how carbs (I am talking here of bad carbs BTW, not the good ones) lead to all these other complications is a topic I would like to discuss in my upcoming posts. There is indeed a new school of thought in proper nutrition throughout the world, and so far, especially in countries claiming rice to be a staple food, it seems this new thought isn't reaching their people yet. When countries panic because of lack of rice, they should also panic for the possible complications of over-indulgence in rice.
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