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white rice? Anonymous
I, being a poor asainfag, eats white rice for almost all his meals.

I know its not the most nutritious of things, but is it really that "bad"?

How would a shit load of white rice in my diet affect my ability to cut, and my ability to bulk?
>> Anonymous
rice is just carbs
>> Anonymous
but isnt calories used to sustain muscle mass? muscles do need calories!

im not JUST eating rice, i just eat alot of it.
>> Anonymous
>>318254

its just extra carbs for u fatty
>> Anonymous
>>318254
YOU ARE FUCKING RETARDED
YOU ARE A TROLL

CALORIES HAVE DIFFERENT SOURCES.

I CAN GIVE YOU A FEW CALORIES RIGHT NOW.
WITH MY FUCKING LIGHTER.

YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST EAT SUGAR INSTEAD OF WHITE RICE.
>> Anonymous
and carbs = energy and calories, amirite?

then it must mean that eating alot of rice = gud?

i can use the energy to execise, and whatever muscle i gain can be sustained by the calories i get.
>> Anonymous
>>318250
You are retarded. Even with the availability of more nutritious food, asians in general haven't grown much taller on average than they used to be. At most there a 2 inch difference.

>>318265
Might as well eat sugar instead of pasta then. After all it's just 'empty calories'.

White rice and pasta are slow release carbs. They convert to sugars, thus energy, slowly in the body allowing you to sustain a work load for longer.

As long as you aren't eating huge meals you should be fine. In fact it'll probably help you by giving you the energy you need for long workouts.
>> Anonymous
>>318250
Indeed, your statement is completely untrue--height has *everything* to do with genetics, and you would know this if you took a basic evolutionary anthropology class. Japanese, for example, have a diet consisting of mostly meat and vegetables, but are generally shorter than your average American.

To answer your question OP, white rice is bad for you in that the nutritional parts of the rice, its husk and bran, have been removed, leaving a bundle of simple carbohydrates with no nutritional value and a sweetened taste. It's the historically stereotyped food of the poor Asian in Asiatic countries, as white bread is the poor Westerner's. Both=processed junk food.
>> Anonymous
>>318270
No. Simple carbohydrates are more readily turned into glucose/glycogen and then fat. Phelps gets away with it because of the extreme amount of exercising he does and a genetically powerful metabolism. Not possible for people who are not training daily to excel at a cardio sport in the Olympics.
>> Anonymous
so white rice isnt exactly good, but it isnt exactly bad either?

we know shit like McDicks is bad, but people talk smack bout carbs, rice, white bread/rice all the time.

hell, isnt carbs like one of the bigger sources for energy?
>> Anonymous
>>318339
Rice = empty calories, unless you eat whole rice, that's another story.
>> Anonymous
>>318339
No, it's not good for you at all. But it's something you can have in moderation and not feel guilty about (like a couple times a week, sushi-sized amounts).

Carbs are a big source of energy and impossible to cut out out of your diet without being a detriment to your health. What healthy eating is about is removing the simple carbs for complex carbs, because complex carbs require your body to expend more energy to digest, and some parts cannot be digested (ie, fiber), so what you are doing is giving your body complex/long-lasting fuel (salad greens OM NOM NOM) instead of something it would rather turn into fat (white rice/flour = eventual fat).
>> Anonymous
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>> Anonymous
>>318370
I bought a box of all bran last week, shit this morning oh my god it was a monster. I'll keep eating it for that reason alone
>> Anonymous
I suggest you try cutting it out of your diet for a couple of weeks to see what happens. I know that bread is a widely eating product across the globe so you could opt for a high fiber low calorie bread to substitute the rice at meals. And I am only suggesting like a slice or two with some fake butter spray. This is becuase your body will feel tired if you don't get enough carbs and eating whole grain bread with fiber is filling and has more nurtition in it than rice. Usually these products have add vitamins. Good luck. Skip the rice.
>> Anonymous
>>318328
Actually, brown rice has always been for the peasants over white.
>> Anonymous
>>318366
>What healthy eating is about is removing the simple carbs for complex carbs

examples of this?
>> Anonymous
Since you're poor:
1. Switch to Brown Rice
2. Add Lentils
3. Add Frozen Vegetables
4. ?????
5. PROFIT
>> Anonymous
>>318963
FUCK YEAH LIVING FOREVER.
>> Anonymous
>>318366
But rice is a complex carb.

White rice isn't bad as long as it isn't making you fat and you are eating tons of micronutrient-rich foods as well.
>> Anonymous
It's just energy. If you're doing lots of things, you eat more rice. Else, not. End of story.
>> Anonymous
Lol. Everyone in this thread is a fucking paranoid dumbass with no education of nutrition.

God, if you're dumb enough to follow /fat/'s advice, you're going to be eating nothing but plain tuna and water for the rest of your life.
>> Anonymous
This thread is retarded. Practically nobody on this boards nutrition requirements are so specific they need to be worrying about brown vs white rice. When most people are chugging down McDonalds or candy I don't white rice will kill you or hurt your goals. Jesus stop trying to give everyone eating disorders.

To OP: Decide how many calories a day you need, decide how many of those calories a day should be carbs, fat and protein and then stick to that.
>> Anonymous
I'd fuck the bejeezus out of padma

I read on the internets that rice is easier for asians to metabolize than honkeys. Don't eat honkeys.
>> Anonymous
In Asia where polished white rice was the common staple food of the middle class, beriberi resulting from lack of vitamin B was endemic. In 1884, Takaki Kanehiro, a British-trained Japanese medical doctor of the Japanese Navy observed that beriberi was endemic among low ranking crew who often ate nothing but rice but not among crews of Western navies and officers who were entitled to a Western-style diet. Kanehiro initially believed that lack of protein was the chief cause of beriberi. With the support of Japanese navy, he experimented using crews of two battleships, one crew was fed only white rice, while the other was fed a diet of meat, fish, barley, rice, and beans. The group that ate only white rice documented 161 crew with beriberi and 25 deaths, while the latter group had only 14 cases of beriberi and no deaths. This convinced Kanehiro and the Japanese Navy that diet was the cause of beriberi. This was confirmed in 1897, when Christiaan Eijkman discovered that feeding unpolished rice instead of the polished variety to chickens helped to prevent beriberi in the chickens. The following year, Frederick Hopkins postulated that some foods contained "accessory factors"—in addition to proteins, carbohydrates, fats, et cetera—that were necessary for the functions of the human body.[2]