Eat WHITE Rice

[WildVolley]

Originally Posted by LeeD

I lived for 3 months at Kaliehewai, Kaui, on brown rice, butter, cayenne pepper, salt, and pa****a.
NO meat, no chicken, no fish, cheese once a week.

Lee, you often brag about how you're a physical wreck. I'm not sure that your diet helped you, but it is amazing how some people can thrive on a diet of only simple carbs.

You need the vegetables and protein to help your joints heal.

[pvaudio]

I actually like short grain brown rice. These allegations are ridiculous much like drinking unfiltered coffee raises your cholesterol.

[kimbahpnam]

Originally Posted by Bartelby

Brown rice is a bit nutty and goes very well in salads but not much else.

http://youtu.be/NxD2VmZiLJ0

[El Diablo]

pvaudio
a number of studies, including one from Baylor about 5 years ago, and one from Belgium, demonstrate that drinking unfiltered coffee does indeed raise cholesterol, as much as 8 percent. Cafestrol, a potent elevator of cholesterol by virtue of a gastrointestinal mechanism, is removed from coffee by paper filters (along with some of the oils, unfortunately, that add some flavor).

[Fee]

Originally Posted by El Diablo

pvaudio
a number of studies, including one from Baylor about 5 years ago, and one from Belgium, demonstrate that drinking unfiltered coffee does indeed raise cholesterol, as much as 8 percent. Cafestrol, a potent elevator of cholesterol by virtue of a gastrointestinal mechanism, is removed from coffee by paper filters (along with some of the oils, unfortunately, that add some flavor).

so drinking coarse grind coffee made in a french press is bad for you?

[r2473]

Originally Posted by Fee

so drinking coarse grind coffee made in a french press is bad for you?

On a cost / taste / ease of use basis, the French Press is by far the best way to make coffee.

If this is all you have to worry about with your diet, I think you will be fine.

[sureshs]

There is so much contradicting advice. My doctor told me to treat rice like sugar and go for wheat instead. This is also the advice many of my relatives have gotten. Now I read somewhere that wheat puts a higher digestive load on the body causing insulin resistance and rice is better.

[r2473]

Originally Posted by sureshs

There is so much contradicting advice. My doctor told me to treat rice like sugar and go for wheat instead. This is also the advice many of my relatives have gotten. Now I read somewhere that wheat puts a higher digestive load on the body causing insulin resistance and rice is better.

The answers are coming soon:

http://nusi.org/

Hopefully in a few years, food will be stamped with a "NUSI APPROVED" symbol so we can take all of the crazy guesswork out of eating.

[Boricua]

Nothing better to eat in one plate: puertorrican red beans and white rice, sweet plantain (amarillitos) and avocado (aguacate). To drink, a nice, cold lemonade sweetened with brown sugar.
PS: You can bring on some tostones or mofongo too.

[Sentinel]

Originally Posted by sureshs

There is so much contradicting advice. My doctor told me to treat rice like sugar and go for wheat instead. This is also the advice many of my relatives have gotten. Now I read somewhere that wheat puts a higher digestive load on the body causing insulin resistance and rice is better.

Careful, you could be gluten-allergic. A lot of people here are, and the symptoms can be pretty indirect at times, so it's not evident. I am and wish I could move to rice and cut wheat altogether.

Or you could try other alternatives to wheat that are gluten-free.

[sureshs]

Originally Posted by Sentinel

Careful, you could be gluten-allergic. A lot of people here are, and the symptoms can be pretty indirect at times, so it's not evident. I am and wish I could move to rice and cut wheat altogether.

Or you could try other alternatives to wheat that are gluten-free.

I tolerate wheat and rice equally well, don't see any problems with wheat.

[SushiKing]

Originally Posted by Sentinel

Or you could try other alternatives to wheat that are gluten-free.

Is it healthier to eat gluten-free, even if you don't have a wheat intolerance?

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T. Howie
gaithers tour

[ollinger]

^^ no good evidence that it's healthier

[Fee]

Originally Posted by r2473

On a cost / taste / ease of use basis, the French Press is by far the best way to make coffee.

If this is all you have to worry about with your diet, I think you will be fine.

I don't drink coffee, but my cousin and her husband drink it daily, made in a French press not filtered in a drip pot. That's why I asked, I'd never seen that health concern about coffee before and I was pretty surprised.

[sureshs]

Originally Posted by sureshs

There is so much contradicting advice. My doctor told me to treat rice like sugar and go for wheat instead. This is also the advice many of my relatives have gotten. Now I read somewhere that wheat puts a higher digestive load on the body causing insulin resistance and rice is better.

I think I got that wrong. I believe the comparison was not between wheat and rice, but between wheat and gluten-free grains.

[r2473]

Originally Posted by sureshs

I think I got that wrong.

Saved for posterity

[Sentinel]

Originally Posted by SushiKing

Is it healthier to eat gluten-free, even if you don't have a wheat intolerance?

---
T. Howie
gaithers tour

I don't know for sure. However, you could be intolerant and be attributing some issues to other things, or not know why they are. My gluten intolerance only noticably affected me during running. I had severe breathing problems while running. I accidentally found it was gluten when i was eating rice for a month on vacation, and i had no breathing problem. Came back home and again the breathing issues began.

However, there may be other issues too that gluten could be causing that I will only know if I stay off gluten for a month or more. Since my family is basically wheat eating, that's not proving possible.

[pvaudio]

Originally Posted by El Diablo

pvaudio
a number of studies, including one from Baylor about 5 years ago, and one from Belgium, demonstrate that drinking unfiltered coffee does indeed raise cholesterol, as much as 8 percent. Cafestrol, a potent elevator of cholesterol by virtue of a gastrointestinal mechanism, is removed from coffee by paper filters (along with some of the oils, unfortunately, that add some flavor).

Originally Posted by r2473

On a cost / taste / ease of use basis, the French Press is by far the best way to make coffee.

If this is all you have to worry about with your diet, I think you will be fine.

This is exactly my point. I am admittedly a huge coffee snob, and alternate between brewing methods, two of which don't use a paper filter. I eat a balanced diet of fish, just about only whole grains (including brown rice), chicken, very little red meat and typically have a glass of red every night or two. My lipid levels are fantastic. The rise in cholesterol linked to the unfiltered coffee is even hugely shadowed by the effects of the caffeine from drinking that amount of coffee. Here is a quote from an article referencing a Johns Hopkins study

In 2001, Klag and his colleagues reviewed more than a dozen studies that looked at the relationship between coffee consumption and cholesterol levels. They found that drinking an average of six cups of coffee a day was associated with increased total cholesterol and LDL, the harmful type of cholesterol. Nearly all of the rise in cholesterol was linked to unfiltered coffee.

If you drink on average six cups of coffee a day, then cholesterol is the least of your worries. Coffee's benefits far outweigh this high-dose risk.

[pvaudio]

Originally Posted by SushiKing

Is it healthier to eat gluten-free, even if you don't have a wheat intolerance?

---
T. Howie
gaithers tour

Not in the slightest. If you have celiac, then concern yourself. Otherwise, load up your pasta bowl.

[sureshs]

Originally Posted by Sentinel

I don't know for sure. However, you could be intolerant and be attributing some issues to other things, or not know why they are. My gluten intolerance only noticably affected me during running. I had severe breathing problems while running. I accidentally found it was gluten when i was eating rice for a month on vacation, and i had no breathing problem. Came back home and again the breathing issues began.

However, there may be other issues too that gluten could be causing that I will only know if I stay off gluten for a month or more. Since my family is basically wheat eating, that's not proving possible.

Just switch them to biriyani and you will be fine