Online influencers claim the secret to low-calorie rice, pasta and potatoes may be as simple as chilling out.<\/p>\n
Are they right? Not quite. But a small yet solid body of science does suggest that chilling these carbohydrate-rich foods after cooking them still could help people slim down.<\/p>\n
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