Becca wrote:
>
> What puzzles me, are the stick thin people here in Louisiana, who eat
> rice and gravy, or beans and rice, every day without gaining weight.


Would you hear about thin people in the third world with a subsistence
diet of beans, rice and a few vegetables and conclude that their thin
figures were puzzling? You don't say how much beans and rice they eat.
If they're not getting too many calories, they're not going to gain
weight.


Every body is different. For some people, cutting down on carbs will
help them lose weight. For others, the only relevent factor is total
calories. That's calories in (food) and calories out (exercise).


There are more variables including metabolism, menopause, previous
history of weight gain and loss, hereditary body type. Only looking at
the components of the diet (beans and rice) without taking the other
factors into account is going to puzzling.


--Lia