I ate a lot of brown rice when I was macrobiotic. Later I went on the paleo diet, (which I still do with a little bit of cheating) So I stopped eating rice. I was surprised I don't miss the rice at all. I feel very indifferent to rice and all other grains.
I do miss dairy though. I have been experimenting with raw dairy. But I'm sorry to say that I think I do better without dairy.
--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 1:49 PM, barnabywalker <barnabywalker@...>wrote:
>
> >
> > I agree that rice added to a meal makes it very inexpensive. You have been
> > pushing rice a lot more than many of us following a low carb/high fat diet.
> > My concern is with all the carbohydrates in rice, I would gain fat when I
> > included it with an inexpensive meal with fish.
> >
> > Do you have to limit your portions of rice CARBS to a certain portion size,
> > instead of a very filling portion that I had been eating with salmon? How
> > many carbs do you eat? After all, one cup of cooked rice is 44 carbs and a
> > half cup wouldn't be filling.
> >
> > Barnaby
> >
>
> I wouldn't limit *any* macronutrient, is what I'm saying. I basically
> believe the brain knows what your body needs, and what your body needs
> changes according to your age, activities, and phase of the moon for all I
> know. Even "milk" changes according to the age of the baby animal, and each
> human baby drinks a different amount of milk from other baby humans. How can
> anyone know what another human being needs to eat?
>
> Looking at the health of Asians, they typically do quite well on a very high
> carb diet, even though rice is about the emptiest carb around. This does not
> jibe with the current thinking on carbs.
>
> But one of the points of Fast-5 is that it helps the "appestat" ... that
> conglomeration of hormones and gut brain and who knows what else ... and
> THEN you'll eat what you need. So my experiment is: I cook food. My family
> (and I) take the proportions of meat, vegies, and carb that seem right and
> yummy. My family has basically glommed on to rice big time, and not only
> "rice" ... it has to be a certain kind of rice, and cooked fresh each meal.
> Which is pretty much the routine my Asian friends have ("If there is no
> rice, it's not a meal!").
>
> I didn't start out pushing rice. Basically our only deal was "anything but
> wheat" at the beginning, and I was making a lot of non-wheat pizza, tacos,
> spaghetti, steak & potatoes, chili and cornbread, salads. Then I got into
> rice, and cooked it for ME ... but the rest of the family decided they liked
> what I was making better. So now every meal must have rice, "or it's not a
> meal".
>
> I have zero idea why this works. But ... good white rice sets differently
> and does different things in my stomach, than rice-based noodles do. Brown
> rice doesn't work at all. Yet if you believe in the concept that our brains
> at some level know what is good for us, then you have to ask yourself: WHY
> did several billion people all decide to make white rice the basis of their
> diet? Pretty much all the grains grow ok somewhere in Asia, and they have in
> fact had wheat and buckwheat, barley, rye, and millet for a long time, but
> still: rice is the staple.
>
> Another interesting thing is that red pepper was an American staple that did
> not come to Asia until 1700 or so. Yet they adopted it almost
> instantaneously. They didn't adopt a whole lot of OTHER American staples
> (like white potatoes or tomatoes or corn). But peppers became the central
> item in kimchi shortly after they got introduced. So what is it about red
> pepper?
>
> Eating one meal a day ... it's pretty easy to see the effects of that meal.
> Either it is satisfying, or it is not. Either it makes you feel queasy, or
> it does not. My goal is a meal that makes me sit back and think : "Ummm. Now
> THAT was a meal!". Lately I mostly succeed in that. But the things that work
> for me might not work for you!
>
>
> --
> Heather Twist
> http://eatingoffthefoodgrid.blogspot.com/
>
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