Fear Not Rice: It Built a Civilization

Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson · Sep 3, 2026 · 12m

If you spent time in the low-carb world, rice is about as welcome as a toxic waste dump. It is part of those dreaded whites: white flour, white sugar, and white rice. All a part of the reason we are fat, diabetic, and have every disease one can think of.

But then, if you get out and see the world, you will realize that people eat rice daily, are thin as a rail, relatively healthy, and have some of the longest lives on the planet.

Today, we will make sense of the madness of rice.

While people in the Mediterranean were mostly illiterate, in Asia, they had developed writing, laws, philosophy…