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Lets say a third of your daily calorie intake was rice. The rest contains the nutrition you need. Your calories are maintenance levels. Is eating rice every day in that June or scenario potentially harmful to you?

Everyone says rice is bad for you but I wonder if that is actually true. People in Asia seem to eat rice all the time and be ok

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rice is carbs..what so bad about carbs?

CICO, eat sugar if you want as long as you burn it off

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known2FAIL posted...

People in Asia seem to eat rice all the time and be ok

and that is all you need to know whether or not it's bad for you.
then again, they supplement it with meat and tons of veggies.

also, i literally never heard of fucking butter on rice in all my asian years so maybe that's also a factor and all the ways (i'm assuming)non-asians seem to fuck up rice.

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brown rice is more nutritious for you but eating a reasonable amount of white rice every day is not going to be bad for you

carbs are good to keep your energy up unless you're doing keto or something. i've spent the last year and a half with chicken and rice as a central part of my diet and I've lost a good amount of weight while keeping energized through the day

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Slayerblade11 posted...

rice is carbs..what so bad about carbs?

No idea. Im not that knowledge on the subject

KiwiTerraRizing posted...

CICO, eat sugar if you want as long as you burn it off

Speaking of sugar, I heard someone say a while ago that rice turns into sugar when digested? Is this true? If so, is it true for brown rice too? Like I said, Im pretty ignorant on this stuff

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Everyone say a lot is bad for you. What tends to be true is that too much of anything is bad for you and not eating enough of the good stuff is bad for you. Eating the same shit every day is bad for you. Getting a balanced diet is good for you. balance meaning different nutrients sources and a balance of macros.

People in Asia eat a lot of rice but also eat a lot of whole, unprocessed lean foods in overall much smaller portion sizes. You can't point to a single part of their diet that explains why say Japanese people are so thing and healthy. You have to look at the picture as a whole.

This is why nutritional documentaries are such horseshit. You can paint any story you like if you single out a particular food type. This is why we bounce around from "fats are bad" to "carbs are bad" to "sugars are bad" so frequently.

To address the question, eating that much of the same thing every day might just mean you're not getting a balanced and sufficiently mixed diet. It also means you'd have a pretty high level of carbs, and getting in enough protein would be a bit challenging. But I'm sure it could be done.

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Thanks for the info

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Depending on where the rice is grown and how you cook it, there could be a fair amount of arsenic in it.

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Sir Will posted...

Depending on where the rice is grown and how you cook it, there could be a fair amount of arsenic in it.

I usually eat brown rice and I use a rice cooker. No idea where its grown from. I just buy random rice at the store

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White rice when accompanied with nutrient dense foods and respect for calorie intake isn't going to be a problem for most people. Same as with all demonized carbs, people throw 1000 calories of fried processed crap on 400 calories of white rice, then blame the rice for all that's wrong in life and that's where you'll go wrong. Have it with some legumes, leafy greens, nuts and seeds, and you're set.

There's a broader issue of arsenic contamination since it's a magnet for it, especially in rice grown in the Southern USA, and brown rice is worse in that regard but you can get rice from other places that have much lower levels (IIRC, California and Pakistan have lowest levels).

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Forgive my ignorance, but when I compare packages, Brown Rice and White Rice frankly don't seem to be all that nutritionally different. Brown is definitely better, but not by that much.

With bread and pasta, the whole wheat versions are night and day. My whole wheat spaghetti has huge amounts of fiber and protein and regular spaghetti has virtually none. Why doesn't there seem to be as much difference in rice?

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E_S_M_Z posted...

Forgive my ignorance, but when I compare packages, Brown Rice and White Rice frankly don't seem to be all that nutritionally different. Brown is definitely better, but not by that much.

With bread and pasta, the whole wheat versions are night and day. My whole wheat spaghetti has huge amounts of fiber and protein and regular spaghetti has virtually none. Why doesn't there seem to be as much difference in rice?

Ive wondered about this too

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E_S_M_Z posted...

Forgive my ignorance, but when I compare packages, Brown Rice and White Rice frankly don't seem to be all that nutritionally different. Brown is definitely better, but not by that much.

With bread and pasta, the whole wheat versions are night and day. My whole wheat spaghetti has huge amounts of fiber and protein and regular spaghetti has virtually none. Why doesn't there seem to be as much difference in rice?

brown rice has like twice as much nutrients for the same calories, talking vitamins and minerals here