Nah. I live in the south. Black folk eat a ton of rice with every dish down here. If you eat too much you'll get fat. Period.
It's hard to eat a lot of rice to the point it makes you fat, it fills you up fast. If eaten with vegetables, and proteins, you would be too full to eat a lot due to those foods lowering the glycemic index. That's probably a factor in this study.
What makes people fat is lack of movement, and eating a lot of protein, you won't hear that because the meat industry controls this country. You cut the protein, you cut the weight. Americans eat way too much protein. Rice is mostly carbs, that means if you are not sitting around all day, most of it will be burned as energy
