Scientists developed simple way to cook rice that cut calories absorbed by half

> "The team also will check out whether other oils besides coconut have this effect."

"In conclusion, cooling of cooked white rice increased resistant starch content. Cooked white rice cooled for 24 hours at 4°C then reheated lowered glycemic response compared with freshly cooked white rice."

it's the cooling, I don't understand why this isn't explained.

Well shit, I've got most of that at home. Fine Mr. Snarky Wizard, you win. You didn't have to be so mean about it.

Cool experiment. I grew up on that kind of material.

And as an aside, cold rice leads naturally to fried rice and cooking experiments there. Which is awesome.

Shit diet (cakes, bacon, fries etc.) -> heavy low carb rice diet

Shit diet -> Good diet (balanced, carbs, protein, fat, veggies)

I would say the second transition is easier. Perhaps more expensive though.

A lot of our problems with food begin and end with the idea that we need to eat ginormous quantities of it, when moderation would fuel us just as well.

A different kind of puffed rice with sugar added is known as the breakfast cereal Rice Krispies.

That is not what the GP said. The objection was about long term resource distribution...it's right there in the short post.

> co2/water/food insecurity battles we now face

The comment about individual consumption was incidental, not targeted. This selective outrage response, is woefully misplaced.

What is toxic is being offended at the very serious suggestion of eating less, especially when you flow it up with how bad being obese is for the rest of society.

You can feel bad for someone's plight without bending over backwards to pretend it's not curable by simply taking in less calories and moving more.

My sister had several miscarriages due to a thyroid medication she took. Once she stopped she carried to term, but gained weight.

She changed her diet and began working out, and has now been a certified personal trainer who specializes in obese clients for over 15 years.

One of her major stipulations for clients is mandatory caloric intake journals and meetings with nutritionists.

She despises above all else the coddling and mental gymnastics people will go through rather than make impactful changes.

We need to treat adults as such.

You say 'complex behavioral phenomenon', some say 'lack of willpower'.

Those last about a week before turning too yellow just hanging from a hook in the kitchen.

When I visited family in IL last summer it proved quite difficult and I was often visiting multiple stores on shopping trips just to find bananas remotely green. My quality of life jumps off a cliff every time I visit, this is part of why. The produce availability sucks there in general compared to CA.

If I'm particularly sick with the runs, the first thing I look for is a banana so green peeling requires a knife and tastes like eating chalk. It fixes me right up within the hour, and I've never had negative effects. But on the day to day it's not so green, just green enough to not be sweet.

BTW this isn't some trail I'm blazing here. Green bananas are well known as a dietary source of RS2, there's even green banana flour sold for its RS2 content. I first discovered use of green bananas for GI maladies when seeking out more natural alternatives to medicines like Immodium AD. They're included in myriad lists of natural remedies... I've found just starting every day with one that's at least slightly green preemptively nips any potential GI problem in the bud, enabling me to then eat basically anything fearlessly for the next ~30hrs.

Basically, do the opposite of Soylent.

Now something like butter or sugar, sure that makes sense. Calorie dense, and there are a lot of super tasty and addictive foods, that no one is eating as a meal, or to get full, that use a ton of of both of those ingredients.

surely not due to rice consumption, though?