Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that cuts the calories
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Re: Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that cuts the calories
#2If I'm going to eat rice, it's because of the carbs it has, so I'm fine with the amount of calories it has, but I see how it can be useful for certain people.
Re: Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that cuts the calories
#3There are people around the world starving because they don't have access to enough calories and we're trying to figure out how to reduce the caloric values of foods. At the same time we're coming up with stuff like Soylent because we're worried that we're using too much of our resources to produce foods. What a strange set of circumstances.
Perhaps a less revolutionary idea to reduce the calories in the rice you eat by 50%: eat 50% less rice.
Re: Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that cuts the calories
#4A lot of people still struggle with portion control and this method will give hope to many people. Calorie-dense foods psychologically bring us comfort so this will allow people to continue to eat them while still cutting calories. In the end, this translates to real weight loss assuming people don't pile on the calories elsewhere.
Re: Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that cuts the calories
#5There are people around the world starving because they don't have access to enough calories and we're trying to figure out how to reduce the caloric values of foods. At the same time we're coming up with stuff like Soylent because we're worried that we're using too much of our resources to produce foods. What a strange set of circumstances. Perhaps a less revolutionary idea to reduce the calories in the rice you eat…
While simply eating less works for most people I think this is a little dismissive of other factors at work in the obesity epidemic.
Re: Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that cuts the calories
#6There are people around the world starving because they don't have access to enough calories and we're trying to figure out how to reduce the caloric values of foods. At the same time we're coming up with stuff like Soylent because we're worried that we're using too much of our resources to produce foods. What a strange set of circumstances. Perhaps a less revolutionary idea to reduce the calories in the rice you eat…
While simply eating less works for most people I think this is a little dismissive of other factors at work in the obesity epidemic.
Such as food subsidies that make high calorie/low value foods cheaper than they otherwise would be? Or the over-availability to the most at-risk populations of these high calorie/low value foods? I'm not sure how lowering the caloric density of a food is going to lower the incentive to eating too much food. In fact, I could easily see it doing the opposite.
Re: Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that cuts the calories
#7There are people around the world starving because they don't have access to enough calories and we're trying to figure out how to reduce the caloric values of foods. At the same time we're coming up with stuff like Soylent because we're worried that we're using too much of our resources to produce foods. What a strange set of circumstances. Perhaps a less revolutionary idea to reduce the calories in the rice you eat…
While simply eating less works for most people I think this is a little dismissive of other factors at work in the obesity epidemic.
>eating less works for most people
Eating less actually works for all people, it's just hard to commit to. Restricting calories is uncomfortable.
Re: Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that cuts the calories
#8'Wait 12 hours' might sound simple, but it's not very practical...
Re: Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that cuts the calories
#9There are people around the world starving because they don't have access to enough calories and we're trying to figure out how to reduce the caloric values of foods. At the same time we're coming up with stuff like Soylent because we're worried that we're using too much of our resources to produce foods. What a strange set of circumstances. Perhaps a less revolutionary idea to reduce the calories in the rice you eat…
> There are people around the world starving because they don't have access to enough calories and we're trying to figure out how to reduce the caloric values of foods.
We're also trying to figure out how to increase the nutritional values of foods that tend to be available to areas where inadequate food supplies are problematic (e.g., cassava.) Different groups of people have different, and often opposite, problems, and research can be directed at more than one of them at a time.
> At the same time we're coming up with stuff like Soylent because we're worried that we're using too much of our resources to produce foods.
I've yet to see any coherent explanation of how a heavily processed food like Soylent can be anything but an increase in the resources to produce food. Might, optimistically, reduce the resource cost to deliver and store food compared to some other alternatives. Mostly, though, its seems to be an attempt to make money by selling convenience to people with who aren't particularly concerned for other features of food (other than perhaps a certain very broad nutritional profile.)
> Perhaps a less revolutionary idea to reduce the calories in the rice you eat by 50%: eat 50% less rice.
A number of people find it much easier to reduce calories first (by eating less calorie-dense foods, but with similar volumes) and then reduce volumes (potentially adding back more calorie-dense foods in the process, or perhaps further reducing calories in the process.)
You can address real people's problems more effectively when you deal with them being how they are rather than how you would wish them to be.
Re: Scientists have discovered a simple way to cook rice that cuts the calories
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
While simply eating less works for most people I think this is a little dismissive of other factors at work in the obesity epidemic.
>eating less works for most people Eating less actually works for all people, it's just hard to commit to. Restricting calories is uncomfortable.
> Eating less actually works for all people, it's just hard to commit to.
If people are less able to comply with a program than an alternative program, then the first program, in fact, works less well (if it can even be said to work at all) for them.
So the two halves of this statement are opposed.