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Rice

Rice is a staple food for a large part of the world's human population, especially in Asia. It is the agricultural commodity with the third-highest worldwide production. Rice is rich in carbohydrates and provides a good amount of energy. It also contains important nutrients, including vitamins B1 and B2, iron and calcium.

Category
Grain
Molecular Formula
N/A
Mechanism of Action
Provides energy and essential nutrients required for body function
Evidence Grade
A

Other Names

  • Oryza sativa

Primary Benefits

  • High in carbohydrates
  • Gluten free
  • Low in sodium
  • Source of energy

Recommended Dosage

Adults 3-6 servings per day
Children 2-4 servings per day

Side Effects

  • May increase blood sugar levels
  • Potential for arsenic contamination in some types

Precautions

  • People with diabetes should monitor intake due to high carbohydrate content

Interactions

  • May impact blood sugar control medications

Key References

  • https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/food-features/rice/
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“fixed the diabetes so they become metabolically healthy eating high amounts of carbohydrates including refined sugar and white rice things I would not recommend but definitely including fruit and fruit juice metabolically healthy and their diabetes continued to be improved continue to be sort of fixed even when they liberalize their diet”

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“and rice or like an Italian pasta and foli beans and pasta you get a whole protein all the amino acids so shelf stable cheap delicious uh uh um and and accessible that's where we need to start”

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Eric Topol Returns (on longevity) | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
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“I have a pretty low carbohydrate diet because I can't eat pasta or bread... But I'm not afraid of a potato or some rice but in general I have a pretty low carbohydrate diet.”

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This Is How Fat Loss Actually Works – Dr Mike Israetel
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“it just doesn't matter as long as you get a minimum of both if you're getting some fibrous veggies and maybe a few pieces of fruit per day but you're down to very low levels of carbs you eat no grains no breads no rice none of that but you eat plenty of healthy fats you're golden you're going to lose tons of fat and be super healthy”

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This Is How Fat Loss Actually Works – Dr Mike Israetel
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“couple examples creamy sauces to non-creamy sauces to dry rubs to Salt only when you're real miserable tons of rice and pasta and uh breads down to whole grain breads whole grain pasta brown rice”

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This Is How Fat Loss Actually Works – Dr Mike Israetel
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“on average boiled potatoes do really well in that regard mashed potatoes not as well they're tastier you can suck them down faster a bunch of different types of potato the more the more minimally processed the less processed the better do super well typically rice does okay but you can put away a lot of rice pasta generally doesn't do that great”

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“Subway, burrito places like Chipotle, you can make a bowl or a sandwich with mostly just meats and veggies and a little bit of rice and beans and you're [__] gold.”

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“butternut squash and kombucha we're not talking about uh you know tater tots and flour products and sugary things and all kinds of artificial processed crap type of whole foods okay so your fruits vegetables um non-glutenous grains we don't use glutinous grains at all we're using more like when we talk about grains we're talking about quinoa and millet and rice and you know like you'd kind of let's dip into a few things specifically that as somebody who's dabbled in sort of a plant first approach but never gone vegetarian or vegan um one i've always told people that fruit is nature's candy bar”

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“if you ate just 2,000 calories we'll just assume for a second that you were the average guy weren't working out didn't use your brain that much and you only needed 2,000 calories a day just which is the RDA average... if you ate two thousand calories of just say brown rice and broccoli that was it, your entire diet, you would get all the vitamins minerals, protein essential amino acids you get about 80 grams of protein out of that.”

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“not a fan of white rice because you eliminate the fiber, the micronutrients that are so beneficial to rice all you're doing is basically getting that carbohydrate.”

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“rice is one of those bio accumulator foods because of the ways it's grown so if you buy rice that's been raised on land that they raised cotton on they used arsenic pesticides on those cotton fields and there's still arsenic in those soils and it sucks up into rice more so than it might other people and so arsenic concentrations in rice particularly white rice grown on fields that were sprayed with arsenic pesticides can be a potential bioaccumulation threat.”

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“the worst foods to eat after you fast oh um I I would say you know just sitting down and eating a bunch of processed carbs like don't sit down and have a bowl of ice cream you know you're going to spike your blood sugar all right spike your insulin I would say the processed carbs um you know if you sat down and had some rice and had some chicken I mean that would be fine but I would say you know most of the processed foods because your appetite and satiety cues are not going to be clicked in”

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“white rice is a refined carbohydrate why do we have societies with high volumes of carbohydrates who are not putting on weights and who are not getting type 2 diabetes and that example use of china that's really interesting 300 grams of white rice a day you would think would spike insulin and would cause people to get sick but it wasn't.”

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“It Only Takes 12 Hours!” – Burn Stubborn Fat, Starve Disease & Stay Young | Dr. Jason Fung
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“so maybe you're saying then in china back then because they're not having much fructose, yeah almost zero but therefore they can actually the bodies can handle the 300 grams of white rice each day whereas on the background if a lot of fructose which which is of course how many of us live these days too much sugar too much fruit juice all these kind of things maybe with a background of that suddenly the white rice starts to become problematic.”

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“if you take away the sort of pleasure giving part of food then you're going to be able to control a lot of overweight obesity which is what the right rice was right it was monotonous it was just every single day was the same thing.”

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Understanding the Nuances of Diet, Nutrition, and Metabolic Health 1:05:01 0
“therefore carbs are good or you have the kempner rice diet from the 40s hey that proves that carbs aren't the enemy it's like no no no it's very complicated like you can't just simplify things into like this food is good and this food is bad.”

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“when you take sushi rice for example which is vinegared rice um when you take an acid or lemon juice with bread or vinegar with bread for example you can take say 100 grams of bread and you can measure how much your glycemic index goes up and when you take it with the acid it's like 50 60 of what it was without the acid.”

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“almost always if you're having some sort of starch rice potato whatever sits well with you quinoa if beans sit well with you great like what what are the natural more starchies um fruit is fine there's a actually there's a lot of research on kiwis kiwis are very effective for helping people fall asleep so um that's another great way to to fruit to try this could be your before bed snack kiwi could be a part of your dinner you could try it that way”

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“when you're shopping at the grocery store choose the perimeter you know all the fruits and vegetables nuts seeds legumes um whole grains like quinoa oats um brown rice or or even regular rice is fine um just choose organic because organic has less arsenic um pasture eggs uh pasture raised or grass-fed uh cheese I I do a lot of goat cheese uh that I love because goat cheese is just easier to digest”

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“I might have some kind of carbohydrate but usually um running around got to get the kids to school or whatever it is my my next meal might be some lean beef I'll definitely have carbs I'll have either rice or potato and some kind of greens and that will be another you know if I were to think about how much protein I'm a tiny person um maybe 110 lbs I might have 12 grams of protein a day and then the last meal is also between 30 and 50 gram of protein and probably close to 50 grams of carbs.”

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Dr. Robert Lustig: How Sugar & Processed Foods Impact Your Health
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“brown rice because of the fiber white rice polished you know number one all the vitamin B1 gone and of course a much larger glucose Excursion that glycemic index thing which of course I hate is it's glycemic load that matters and that is a very high glycemic load so brown rice”

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“so i used turkey broccoli and brown rice for like a year just to kind of calm my system down it didn't really help get rid of all my symptoms but it just helped them not be so bad”

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“I think eating the foods some of them I listed off before like Meat and Fish and eggs and vegetables and fruits and some I do like starches like you know rice oatmeal some pastas some sourdough Breads and things I love butter who doesn't love butter um of course none of that stuff in excess olive oil but if one looks at kind of that Buffet of options you realize you can get some high quality amino acids you can get some high quality lipids you probably want to get more of them from olive oil than from butter but you can get the micronutrients you need provided those food sources are healthy.”

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“I think people need to be cautious of overconsumption of carbohydrates and they're not aware of portion sizes really impacting them because they'll say, 'No, I had rice and pasta and I would say I have rice and pasta too every day, but like I probably don't eat as much as that person does.'”

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How Different Diets Impact Your Health | Dr. Christopher Gardner
Influence of Diets on Health: Insights, Challenges, and Recommendations 1:59:26 0
“for black beans, uh, two and a half cups would be 40 grams of protein. Uh, for soybeans, two cups would be 40 grams of protein. For rice, like 20 cups of rice would be 40 grams of protein.”

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“there are two that impact our blood sugar levels it's starches so that's bread, rice, pasta, potatoes, oats and sugars so anything sweet from an apple pie turn orange juice these two categories of foods they're literally made up of glucose molecules so when you eat them they break down into individual glucose molecules and the glucose molecules arrive into your blood”

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“starches like bread pasta rice potatoes oats those are starches those are literally millions of glucose molecules just attached hand to hand like this that's a starch it's just a long chain of glucose when you eat the starch poof it turns into individual glucose molecules raises your blood sugar even though it doesn't taste sweet.”

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“if that meal with let's say 50 grams of quality protein is combined with 50 grams of carbohydrate fruit some oatmeal pasta rice Etc does that change the utilization of the protein at all I know I asked this question earlier but one could imagine that the body wants to use different fuel sources differently um is there any selective use of one um macronutrient versus the other”

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What to Eat & When to Eat for Longevity | Lifespan with Dr. David Sinclair #2
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“For me, I was surprised that white rice, toast, grapes were really bad and potatoes weren't that bad. And so, now I've optimized my diet to not have these periods even after dinner where I feel crappy.”

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“You were on the Okinawan diet for quite some time, right? - Yeah, I was, the Wilcox brothers wrote a book in the 2000s that I loved. And it's mostly carbohydrate, so there's a fair amount of rice but probably could have done better with a bit of brown rice, white rice sends your glucose through the roof.”

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