Is brown rice healthy option

[jasminelandra]

Hi,

I am doing diet control and changing my habits so i am thinking to add brown rice as well. I don't know too much about it but my friend has suggested to take it as healthy option. DO you anyone have any recommendation about it?
Thanks

 

[RPD]

Rice is rice. There is no healthier type of rice, just watch how much of it you consume as it's high in carbs.

 

[Heartbreaker]

Brown rice is a whole grain. It has higher nutrients, and fiber, digest slower and creates lower blood sugar spike.

White rice is processed to remove the outer layers which contain much of the fiber and some nutrients. It's more of processed carbohydrate, that digest faster and creates bigger blood sugar spike.

Brown Rice is healthier, from micro/macro nutrient perspective.

 

[RPD]

Nobody is eating rice for micro/macro nutrients alone, the carbs are the over whelming reason to weigh/consider how much rice you eat in your diet. They are different.

Here’s a look at the nutrition facts of brown and white rice taken from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Nutrient Database:

Long Grain Brown Rice (1 cup cooked):

Calories: 248.
Total Fat: 1.96 g.
Protein: 5.54 g.
Total Carbohydrates: 51.7 g.
Fiber: 3.23 g.
Sugars: 0.485 g.

Long Grain White Rice (1 cup cooked):

Calories: 205.
Total Fat: 0.442 g.
Protein: 4.25 g.
Total Carbohydrates: 44.6 g.
Fiber: 0.632g.
Sugars: 0.079 g.

 

[Heartbreaker]

Nobody is eating rice for micro/macro nutrients alone, the carbs are the over whelming reason to weigh/consider how much rice you eat in your diet. They are different.

Carbs ARE a macro nutrient.

 

[RPD]

Carbs ARE a macro nutrient.

And what makes fat people fat?

 

[Heartbreaker]

And what makes fat people fat?

Eating significantly more calories than they burn.

 

[RPD]

Eating significantly more calories than they burn.

Keep dodging the ultimate answer, and ultimately where do said calories come from?

 

[igor_kavinski]

Brown rice is a nice source of arsenic

Which Rice Has the Least Arsenic? - Consumer Reports

Consumer Reports will tell you how much arsenic is in your rice. New data and guidelines are important for everyone but especially for gluten avoiders.

www.consumerreports.org

 

[Heartbreaker]

Keep dodging the ultimate answer, and ultimately where do said calories come from?

Dodging what answer. I get the impression you are one of anti-carbohydrate kooks.

People aren't getting fat eating brown rice, they are getting fat eating burgers/fries/pizza/cookies/cakes/etc.

Hyper-palatable, hyper-processed foods are the problem, and definitely not unprocessed whole grains like brown rice.

 

[mindless1]

Keep dodging the ultimate answer, and ultimately where do said calories come from?

When referring to the calories that get converted into fat, they come from faster digesting white rice, which spikes blood sugar causing more fat formation.

 

[RPD]

Dodging what answer. I get the impression you are one of anti-carbohydrate kooks.

People aren't getting fat eating brown rice, they are getting fat eating burgers/fries/pizza/cookies/cakes/etc.

Hyper-palatable, hyper-processed foods are the problem, and definitely not unprocessed whole grains like brown rice.

People get fat from eating waaaay too many carbs. Something all the foods you listed have. But ya I'm a kook apparently.

When referring to the calories that get converted into fat, they come from faster digesting white rice, which spikes blood sugar causing more fat formation.

Fat comes from eating too many carbs. Why do professional body builders all eat white rice (not brown) with their chicken and broccoli? By your statement they would be better served using brown, yet I basically never see or hear of them doing this.

If you have the exact same diet but swap out white rice for brown rice you aren't going to see any noticeable different except you'll probably hate yourself more eating rice that generally tastes worse.

 

[Heartbreaker]

People get fat from eating waaaay too many carbs.

No they don't. A Vegan diet pattern generally produces the lowest amount of body fat, and it's a higher carb pattern as well. The more vegetarian people get, the lighter they are:

It's not healthy, fiber rich carbohydrates, that contributes to obesity, but junk food.

People aren't getting fat eating rice/beans/veggies/fruit (70%+ calories from carbs and about 15% from fat)

They get fat from Junk food I listed get much of the calories from fat, so more like 40-50% carbs, and 30-40% from fat.

French Fries, over 40% of calories from fat.
Burgers over 40% from fat.
Pizza - varies but can also have 40-50% from fat.
Cookies 30-40%

Bottom line though is you can lose weight eating anything. It's just that with junk food it's so much harder to stop and it's so calorie dense (has more fat).

Try eating a whole food plant based diet, and you would have trouble NOT losing weight, because it has very low calorie density.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Both of you are partly right.

What makes a person fat depends on the condition of their liver and how much fried food they eat.

Fried food AND sugar, in the same meal, damages the liver. Fatty deposits form in the liver which cause scarring of the liver. The useful number of cells able to do their duties declines. Once the liver becomes sluggish, fat metabolism is badly affected. Body starts storing fat everywhere, even where it shouldn't, like organs and tissues. That visceral fat starts affecting the functioning of the organs, like the kidneys. It's a complete trainwreck and the only way to put a stop to it is to STOP EATING or drastically lowering the calorie count to 1200 or less per day.

So if a person is already obese, eating brown rice may just delay the inevitable.

 

[mindless1]

Fat comes from eating too many carbs. Why do professional body builders all eat white rice (not brown) with their chicken and broccoli? By your statement they would be better served using brown, yet I basically never see or hear of them doing this.

If you have the exact same diet but swap out white rice for brown rice you aren't going to see any noticeable different except you'll probably hate yourself more eating rice that generally tastes worse.

Pro body builders eat white rice because it digests faster, but they have the muscle mass (and exercise) to absorb and burn that, the opposite of the average person's needs.

I like the somewhat nutty taste of whole grains like rice. Plus, much less attention needed to not end up with a goopy mess cooking with it, and it is healthier to eat natural sources of vitamins than the synthetic ones added back. Some people are even intolerant of the synthetic versions.

 

[RPD]

No they don't. A Vegan diet pattern generally produces the lowest amount of body fat, and it's a higher carb pattern as well. The more vegetarian people get, the lighter they are:

It's not healthy, fiber rich carbohydrates, that contributes to obesity, but junk food.

People aren't getting fat eating rice/beans/veggies/fruit (70%+ calories from carbs and about 15% from fat)

They get fat from Junk food I listed get much of the calories from fat, so more like 40-50% carbs, and 30-40% from fat.

French Fries, over 40% of calories from fat.
Burgers over 40% from fat.
Pizza - varies but can also have 40-50% from fat.
Cookies 30-40%

Bottom line though is you can lose weight eating anything. It's just that with junk food it's so much harder to stop and it's so calorie dense (has more fat).

Try eating a whole food plant based diet, and you would have trouble NOT losing weight, because it has very low calorie density.

Buddy, Oreos are fucking vegan. Lots and lots of unhealthy food is "vegan". This post did nothing to address the quantity of carbs in most peoples diets that are over weight. Try again.

Pro body builders eat white rice because it digests faster, but they have the muscle mass (and exercise) to absorb and burn that, the opposite of the average person's needs.

I like the somewhat nutty taste of whole grains like rice. Plus, much less attention needed to not end up with a goopy mess cooking with it, and it is healthier to eat natural sources of vitamins than the synthetic ones added back. Some people are even intolerant of the synthetic versions.

Kinda but not really the main reason - https://www.verywellfit.com/lifters-still-choose-white-rice-over-brown-3121319

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Every discussion about nutrition eventually devolves into Bro Science (aka BS).

Control your portions, eat clean unprocessed foods often, work some days in for some deep fried shit, and be happy.

Accept that some weeks are going to be clean home cooked food all the way through, and some weeks will have two or three takeout days cause life gets ya by the balls sometimes.

Watching people min/max their diets is peak first world bullshit.

I.e eat white rice, but only serve yourself one cup cooked and more importantly make sure the rest of your meal isn't greasy crap.

 

[igor_kavinski]

By the way, the OP is probably a bot.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

By the way, the OP is probably a bot.

-When the bots spur more intelligent debate than the actual human generated OPs then we are truly lost.

 

[mike8675309]

Brown rice is better for you. You need to make sure you wash your rice to clean off the starch and also lead that can be on there. I highly recommend cooking the rice like pasta, where you put it in boiling water. That allows you to dump most of the contaminants down the drain.

 

[RPD]

It's healthier how exactly?

Long Grain Brown Rice (1 cup cooked):

Calories: 248.
Total Fat: 1.96 g.
Protein: 5.54 g.
Total Carbohydrates: 51.7 g.
Fiber: 3.23 g.
Sugars: 0.485 g.

Long Grain White Rice (1 cup cooked):

Calories: 205.
Total Fat: 0.442 g.
Protein: 4.25 g.
Total Carbohydrates: 44.6 g.
Fiber: 0.632g.
Sugars: 0.079 g.

Per unit basis it has more calories, fat, carbs and sugars. Only thing it has going for it is fiber and protein. If you want to bring up the other nutritional stuff like minerals or vitamins, are people just eating an all rice diet or getting that from other food sources? So far everyone saying brown rice is better has yet to provide any hard data of to why or just ignoring these nutritional facts. Unless we are talking about an all rice diet you aren't looking at a proper diet in its entirety.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Only thing it has going for it is fiber and protein.

Both VERY important for satiety.

People will get hungry much later, insulin will spike less and less insulin means less fat storage.

 

[RPD]

Yea I dunno about you but I eat any rice I'm not lacking in the satiety department.

 

[mindless1]

It's healthier how exactly?

Per unit basis it has more calories, fat, carbs and sugars. Only thing it has going for it is fiber and protein. If you want to bring up the other nutritional stuff like minerals or vitamins, are people just eating an all rice diet or getting that from other food sources? So far everyone saying brown rice is better has yet to provide any hard data of to why or just ignoring these nutritional facts. Unless we are talking about an all rice diet you aren't looking at a proper diet in its entirety.

Calories, especially spread out over a longer digestive period, are essential to a healthy diet. You want to try to pretend they are bad but they are only bad when rapidly absorbed faster than the body can use them. This is much easier to do with processed foods including grains like rice.

Fat, plant based fat is the best way to get the recommended daily allowance required to healthy. It is a virtue.

Sugars, too little to bother thinking about.

Yes fiber and protein instead of essentially a blood sugar spike, is the most important factor, second to more minerals and natural forms of vitamins which have different bioavailability than the cheapest forms of synthetics used to enrich processed grains. Processed rice is simply less nutritious and causes a deficit in a healthy diet.

Yes you should get much of your nutrition from other sources, then not eat anything that causes a deficit unless it's some kind of craving and frankly, rice isn't on my top 50 list of cravings.

You have zero evidence that processed white rice is actually better except this idea about bodybuilders wanting a faster glucose boost which as I've already stated, is exactly why it's worse nutrition for everyone else.

Want the best nutrition? Eat only the bran, and germ, the parts removed from processed white rice, not the remaining rice! Most people already consume excess carbs even if they are whole grains. Most people also come nowhere near their RDA of most nutrients by trying to get them from other sources so they were already at a deficit before doing without the nutrients in whole grains opposed to processed.

Thinking only in terms of calories or fat is absurd since anyone can just choose what size portion to eat.

 

[mindless1]

Yea I dunno about you but I eat any rice I'm not lacking in the satiety department.

Then it wasn't because of the rice unless you consumed an excessive amount, rather excess of something else that offset the effect of the fast digesting processed rice.