Oh, PLEASE.
The brain trust who came up with this idea has clearly never seen real chopstick users eat with them. Oh, yeah, it's easy enough to give chopsticks to amateurs and watch them muddle along. But the whole "chopstick diet" idea is predicated almost entirely on technical expertise with the apparatus -- i.e., the lack of it.
People who really know how to use chopsticks (and I'm not saying Asians only -- I mean anybody, and I've seen this happen) can shovel as much food as people using other utensils. Whoever came up with the "chopstick diet" idea has never seen me eat with chopsticks.
As for those amateurs? The better they get at using chopsticks, the less effective this preposterous "diet" will be.
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This works if you try eating that unsticky rice (long grain?) with chopsticks.
Nobody I know in Taiwan ever does this! If the rice is unsticky, you put it in a bowl, tip the bowl to your face, and use the chopsticks to shovel it in. Goodness knows nobody tries to pick up the stuff a few grains at a time.
Oh, well.
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