Is high carbs like in rice bad for you, will it make you fat? why or why not?

Answer 1

THE ANSWER IS IN YOUR OWN PERSONAL MIRROR AND IN YOUR PREVIOUS QUESTIONS.

Good Luck

Answer 2

It is what your body does with the carbs, not the carbs themselves that makes you fat. Rice is a high glycemic carb, which means it turns into blood glucose faster than the carbs called low glycemic carbs. Rice is not the highest glycemically speaking, and brown rice is lower glycemically that white rice. The lower glycemic values on the carbs you eat means the less chance of getting fat.

Glucose in the blood stream is monitored by the brain. Too much, and the brain yells for more insulin production. Insulin helps push the glucose in the cells. If the cells have enough for daily use, they convert the excess glucose into fat for storage.

www.hufa.org has info on a condition resulting from too much insulin in the blood stream and how that can make you fat.

Answer 3

well some carbohydrates like the sugar are fast and they fast go to FAT.but some carbs like potatoes get to fat very slow,so if u use them to power your muscles they won't be fat.And have u seen a fat man that eats a lot of rice.Eat rice.They are good for u.try wikipedia.

Answer 4

you should have everything in moderation so have a bit of rice not so much

Answer 5

if you eat more lots of carbohydrates or protein it will end up as fat.

Answer 6

Most sensible anti-carb diets are actually against 'refined' carbohydrates white flour, white sugar and white rice which just provide calories and no nutrition.

Rule 1- Don't get more than 30% of your calories from fat

This is the recommendation from the World Health Organisation*. The easiest way to do this is to not eat anything that contains more than 30% of calories in fat. Modern labelling makes this an easy calculation to do:

There are 9 calories in a gram of fat, (as opposed to 4 calories in a gram of protein or a gram of carbohydrates; that is why fat is fattening) So multiply the grams of fat in the food by 9 and divide by the total calories (actually kilo-calories, sometimes denoted as kcal) the result should be less than 0.3.

e.g. My sweetened rice cakes have 40 kcal per cake and contain 0.2 g fat.

0.2 x 9 = 1.8 calories from fat

1.8 / 40 = 0.045 which is < 0.3 They are very low in fat (but quite high in sugar see rule 2)

The quickest eating makeover in the world is to go through your cupboards with a calculator and get rid of (donate to your food bank) anything which is over the limit. Take your calculator on your next shopping trip and don't buy anything that is over the limit.

Rule 2- Watch out for sugar; low fat doesn't count if it is high in sugar

Sugar is a carbohydrate so it only has 4 calories per gram. The trouble with sugar is that it is everywhere. It is very easy to consume many grams of it without realising. Items to watch out for:

- Fruit juices: don't drink anything that isn't 100% fruit and unsweetened, and even those juices have quite a lot of sugar so don't go nuts on them

-Sweetened Drinks: Diluted beverages, fizzy pop, alco-pops, iced tea all have many grams of sugar

-Low Fat Treats: Many treats such as cookies and sweets that are marketed as 'low fat', like my rice cakes, are very high in sugar. That's how they make them taste nice. Don't be fooled.

Rule 3- Don't eat things which aren't food

Well maybe very occasionally as a treat, but certainly not everyday. Items which provide you with calories and no nutrition are not food. They are bundles of refined flour, sugar, food colouring, artificial ingredients and preservatives that taste nice. Not the same thing at all.

Almost all packaged snack food fits in this category, and many breakfast cereals, particularly for some twisted reason the ones they market at kids. I would include white bread in this category unless you've put something with more nutitional content than jam on it.

Rule 4- Drink water

Your body needs water. It needs it to clean away the byproducts of your metabolism, the residues of any alcohol you drank, to keep your blood chemistry right, to sweat out to keep you cool.... for many many reasons.

Some drinks increase the water content of your body (we'll do the science as to why in the next lesson) and some actually decrease it. Drinks that contain significant amounts of sugar, caffeine or alcohol actually decrease the water content of you body.

Drink lots of water.

Caffeine free teas are just as good in my book.

If you must, drink low-calorie softdrinks, though I'm sure some of the sweetners in those are osmotically active so if there is enough of them they will do the decreasing thing.


Carbohydrates

Carbs are your body's source of energy. You burn (metabolise) carbohydrates to generate the energy that moves you, warms you, heals you, makes your heart pump and your brain operate. If you eat more carbs than you burn, your body stores the excess as fat for use at a later date. Carbs are not fattening; as long as you don't eat more than you need. Carbohydrates should make up the largest proportion of the calories eaten by a healthy active human.

Carbohydrates are the main component (after water) of grains (wheat, rice, oats, barley,corn) and starchy vegetables (potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams). Vegetables and fruits also contain carbohydrates but in slightly different formats.

Special Carbohydrates:

Fibre: Fibre has no calories, your body can't digest it, but it plays an essential role in keeping the human digestive system functioning, so you need to eat it. Fibre is the cellular matter of plants: all un-refined plant based food contains some natural fibre. Refined foods; like white flour and white rice have this fibre removed, which makes them less 'good for you' than whole meal flour and brown rice. Fibre also helps your body adsorb vitamin C.

Sugar: Natural sugars are present in all fruit and vegetables. The reason that people go on about eating less refined sugar not just less sugar, is so that you won't stop eating carrots and apples and tomatoes which all have a lot of sugar in them but are all very good for you. Refined sugar (usually sucrose or fructose)* is sweeter than natural sugar (glucose) and is added in generous quantities to many food stuffs. It is mainly bad for you because you can eat a lot of it without realising but it also can play havoc with your insulin levels, your mood and put holes in your teeth.

Starch: Starch is really just a complex sugar. It isn't sweet, but your body breaks it down into sugars. Refined flour and rice and potatoes without their jackets are really little more than starch. Starch is the staple source of calories in our diets, but it doesn't offer anything additional in terms of nutrition so it is often considered to be a source of 'empty calories'