Please Don’t Worry, Eating White Rice is Fine

My changed perspective on refined carbohydrates

Illustrations by Kaki Okumura

“Why are there so few overweight Japanese people? They eat so much white rice!”

After several years of living in Japan, when I went back to the United States I was asked this by someone. It was kind of an awkward question, one that I didn’t even know how to approach, because I…