Abstract
In this article, we would like to offer some arguments that white rice (WR) per se is the cause neither of diabetes mellitus (DM) nor of obesity. Japanese eat rice as their staple food. Although their per capita intake a day has been dropping from about 330 g in the mid-1960s to about 165 g in 2010, DM in Japan has been increasing from about 10 % in 2006 to about 13 % in 2013. The prevalence of adult obesity (BMI >30) in the last 40 years has increased in the USA from 15 to 33 %, in England from 7 to 25 %, but in Japan from 2 to 3.5 %. From this and other evidence, we concluded that WR can be a cause of DM but only when intake is very high and perhaps with small amount of other foods.
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