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08/15/2023 10:37

Subject: Is sushi healthy

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Anonymous wrote:Neither healthy nor low calorie

It’s fish and rice. You’re a nut.

Take your blood sugar after eating the sugary rice. You’ll be horrified.

I make sushi rice at home - you are literally talking about 1 tablespoon of sugar for 2 cups of rice. I'd hardly call that sugary rice.

LOL. You actually said this?

Np. Two cups of rice would make a lot of sushi. So you'd be getting, what, a teaspoon of sugar if you ate a couple rolls? Big deal.

A normal person would eat about 10 or so pieces of sushi, maybe more. Throw in the salt from the soy sauce, and you can bet sushi can be unhealthy.

I always feel bloated after I eat sushi.

Right, like I said...a couple rolls which is 10-16 pieces of sushi. Would be maybe a teaspoon of sugar. Even the amount of carbs from rice in two rolls isn't crazy.

We need sodium. Unless you have high blood pressure there's no need to avoid sodium, we get the vast amount of sodium in our diet from processed foods, dipping sushi in soy sauce is not an issue.

You folks have really strange ideas of what makes something healthy or not.

? we need sodium, but not *that* much sodium. It's not like you are only eating that one bowl of miso soup the entire day. You are eating other things with salt. And let's not forget the soy sauce.

Same for carbs.

Omg. That tiny cup of miso they give you is MAYBE 3/4 of a cup.

You dip the sushi in the soy sauce. At most you're getting a couple of tablespoons! I've never used the whole tiny tray that you fill and dip into. Have you?

Is sushi salty, and is it a somewhat carb heavy meal? Yes. But that doesn't make it automatically unhealthy.

It's unhealthy for most people. Some people can deal with high salt and carb content than others, but most cannot. Hence the obesity and high blood pressure epidemic.

Miso paste has a lot of salt. Read the nutrition facts. Eating it once a week may not be a big deal, but that wasn't the question.

The question is "Is sushi healthy" - in and of itself, the fish is healthy but most people don't eat just the fish. They eat it with the rice (high carbs) and soy sauce (high salt). Throw in miso soup that's tasty, and there's even more salt.

My family loves sushi, but it's not the healthiest of meals unless you only eat the fish with very little rice and soy sauce (we use the less salty one but it's still has a fairly high salt content).

Obesity is not caused by carbs or rice, it is caused by the overconsumption of calories. Asian cultures live off rice and soy sauce and are some of the thinnest and healthiest people. Heck half the world lives off of rice. American's are obese because they create hyper palatable processed foods full of fat and sugar which leads to overconsumption. The reason people have too much sodium is also from all the processed food that is also full of sodium.

PP here.. you make these assertions in a vacuum.

The reason why Asians are thinner is because of genetics. They have a high incidence of visceral body fat. They also have a high incidence of diabetes and high blood pressure.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8353339/

Asians are said to accumulate more visceral fat than Caucasians, and that is a major challenge because visceral fat is very difficult to reduce and it also adds to the risk of other diseases

https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/library/spotlights/diabetes-asian-americans.html

as a person of Asian descent, you may have less muscle and more fat than other groups and can develop diabetes at a younger age and lower body weight. That extra body fat tends to be in your belly (visceral fat).

It's genetic and diet. Yes, too much rice.

BTW, I'm Asian American, and the above statements are very true for many of my Asian family and friends.

When I had gestational diabetes I had to cut out all rice. My sister who is of normal weight and my mom have high blood pressure and diabetes. They also have cut down on their rice consumption. I also have high blood pressure, and I'm not overweight.