New solution to obesity?

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This blog is one component of my efforts where I review recent media reports related to weight loss and try to clarify the confusing, contradictory and inaccurate information that’s so prevalent on this topic. My goal if for you to understand the fundamental and unchanging truths about weight management so you can stop feeling guilty and start losing weight.
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For years we’ve been told by one faction of the weight loss industry (the low-carb promoters) to stay away from white starches. The assumption is that these foods get absorbed too quickly into the blood stream which causes all kinds of nasty things to happen with the body’s biochemistry (never mind that the Chinese and Japanese eat tons of white rice and have a far less obesity problem than we have in the U.S.).

Well, now there’s an alternative for all those people who love rice but who are convinced the anti-carb “experts” are right.

It’s called Sorna Pearl Nutri Rice (who came up with that name?) and is manufactured by Health Plus FoodStuff. The company’s chairman, Abdol Qadir Memari, is quoted as saying, “We have worked hard to develop a rice chock-full of nutrition without chemical or genetic modification.”

What makes this rice so special? — it has a Glycemic Index (GI) of only 44. Now I’m not sure what the GI is of regular rice but I’d assume it is higher than 44.

Here’s the problem. Attempting to eat foods with a lower Glycemic Index doesn’t have any practical application.

See, the GI for a food assumes the food is eaten all by itself — which almost never happens. So the GI of Sorna Pearl Nutri Rice might be 44 if that’s all you eat (yuk!), but that measurement goes out the window when the rice is mixed with, say, stir-fry meat and vegetables or a piece of fish.

Oh well — another food invention that’s probably not the cure for obesity.

Allen Oelschlaeger
Author of The “Never Struggle With Your Weight Ever Again” Weight Loss Course