I once met a famous old Chinese medicine doctor. He's not only in his 90s but also very healthy. So, people asked him what is your secret for health. He said: there is no secret. If you want to know what I eat, I only eat white rice, white noodle, Bok Choy, and sweet potato.
The secret here is getting your body acclimated to the same foods. Like a car taking premium from one gas station or a car taking any gas from multiple stations.
Eat The Plant Love rice as well, basmati is my fav. and I like jasmine. Glad to hear you are losing on white rice. I like brown rice but love white. I just found out I have Multiple Sclerosis and I'm going to do the McDougall diet instead of the harsh medications. Blessings, Deborah
Each time I felt my tummy starts to be Delhi belly, I turn to rice, boil it and eat it hot. My stomach right away is healed! I cannot abandon rice because of dictators
I tried to convince a friend in Cambodia to switch to brown rice, wow, she looked at me like I had just suggested eating dirt. When I am in Asia, I just eat white rice and veggies (a modified version of the local diet without the meat/fat) at home it's back to brown rice/potatoes and veggies/beans, either way I have lost about 40 pld, not much left to lose, and I eat as much as I want. the trick for me was losing the fat in a vegan diet, as soon as I dropped the fats I dropped the weight...
My grandmother was a Type 2 brittle diabetic. She spent most of her life gaining tons of weight and eating meat and bowls of ice cream. She grew up in the Great Depression, no rich foods then, and when it was over, she gorged. She asked me what to do. I got her on rice of all kinds, NO meat, NO dairy, very little oil if any, oat meal for breakfast, vegetables and fruit WITHOUT sugar, along with cinnamon in her coffee. It helped her a lot. She lived a lot longer and her blood sugars stabilized. She had a lot less "HIGH" readings on her test meter and less fainting spells from being LOW. In short, starch gave her a better life!
I AGREE with the good DR...let's not split hairs....eat the rice be it brown or white..WITH veggies...any kind of veggies...even if it is just frozen peas & carrots & corn...what have you...GREAT message here!
It's very helpful (and traditional) to soak rice (and most other grains) before cooking them. This helps with their digestibility and shortens cooking time. I do this now and my rice comes out perfect:) Good luck!
back in the philippines my friend father 90+years old and still working in the mountain farming doing his thing , one day my friend's father visit in our barrio in cebu city and hangout with my friends father and my friend told me to challenge his dad to hands wrestling and i start hands wrestling his dad and i cant believe i couldn't move his hands his freaking strong and were 5 people challenge his dad and we couldn't beat his 90+years old dad lmao . were guilty on that time lol ..
Not unusual in farmers. They make great armwrestlers. Lookup Cleve Dean. I doubt his grandfather is vegan though. I'm Filipino myself and I've yet to see one turn down fish, pork or shrimp.
I love you Dr. Mcdougall! I live here in Hawaii and rice is at every potluck I ever go to. I want to eat more healthy it saddens me to think of giving up white rice. I'm not saying I never will but at least I can ease into it. Thanks so much for this video!
White rice has helped me a lot, but now I'll try out brown rice. I'm also on starches now and it works great. Thank you so much for all the useful info and for sharing your knowledge.
@@shauntelgill9384 To see how the bowel will react - wheat and some other cereals with insoluble fibers have always been a problem. I think whole rice has also insoluble fibers, but maybe not so agressive. Only bowel will tell. Didn't try as yet because i'm eating potatoes a hundred diffrerent ways now.
Nice vid John and you're 100% right that it's about the overall goal and direction. White rice is still a low fat plant food staple. Had a white roll today and no longer feel like a crack addict lol.
I like what he said, my daughter refuses to eat brown rice and whole wheat bread, so we do the white stuff, I am limiting meat and dairy, and also oil when I can.
Well I have been eating white rice since childhood everyday! I mean in parts of the place where I come from (Bhutan) people eat always rice-rice in breakfast, lunch and dinner (with curries of course). If there is no rice, it sure looks weird and unusual. People used to eat maize, wheat, millet instead of rice if they did not have wealth in the olden days, but they have now cash to buy white rice everytime. Bottomline-can't live without rice! :D
@@jayteean I am really sorry. Just saw your comment. Somehow, I have missed the notification from TH-cam or it didn't email me a notification. Yes, I am from Bhutan, but I currently live outside of Bhutan. Let me know what you would like to know. I will try to provide you some answer if I know them . Apologies again for the late response.
@@Primetime_dads I had meant curry as in cooked vegetables - I guess the closest familiarity in Western audience would be stir fries. But they would be just any vegetables or combination of vegetables cooked with a few spices, herbs, oil and salt. This could be with or without soup or gravy in it. Somehow I have come to know that when someone mentions curry, to a Western mind, it would usually mean cooked vegetables in a watery soup or gravy base. This as I mentioned earlier isn't the case with what I described as 'curry'. Perhaps I have termed the cooked item incorrectly or in a wrong way.
I love brown rice and it has done wonders to my health. I am partiayl Asian by ancestry and don't gain weight eating white rice that is commonly eaten in south east asia. The white rice that makes me fat is Japanese rice. It is different and starchier. White bread, japanese noodles, italian white pasta makes me fat. Interestingly chinese noodles doesn't make me fat. I guess each one of us reacts differently to foods we consume.
Sylvanas Windrunner I haven't tried curry with brown rice, so I don't know for sure, but I imagine that I wouldn't like it more. I grew up eating white rice. None of my encounters with brown rice have been favorable compared to white rice.
When you switch to brown rice, do it slowly because it is high in fiber. Try 1/8 of a cup (of uncooked) and cook it with white rice, then slowly switch over to brown rice. The fiber helps you feel full longer and slows down the absorption of the starches so the glycemic load is much lower. I read that brown rice can lower the risk of type II diabetes by 12% or more.
Brown rice is a lot more filling to me, but since I've been McDougalling I honestly can't finish a meal because everything I eat is so hearty. My husband is Filipino so it's hard to get him to eat brown rice. He still eats meat so I usually just cook whatever I'm eating, plus I make a meat portion on the side, so it's easier just to have white rice. Good to know that it doesn't make a huge difference. I'm almost ready to stop food journalling and just trust that it's almost impossible to overeat while McDougalling.
great to hear doc says no to meat and dairy with the rice
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Vegetables or beans with white rice neglects any negative effects of white rice. White rice is a natural, whole food. Yes its been processed a little, but much less than all that artificial crap. White rice doesn't make people fat, eating an excess of calories makes people fat.
Refined grains are actually healthier, because there are a ton of antinutrients in the husks. You're eating the grains for energy, not for their micronutritional content; that's what you have vegetables for.
I eat a diet based on white-rice and white-flour among other starchy-foods. People are always telling me how thin and handsome I am and ask me how I keep in shape. I tell them I eat a diet consisting of starches, to which they respond flabbergasted!
I'm so glad I can eat white rice. I really don't like the taste of brown rice. I've seasoned the heck out of it and the next day you'd never know I'd given it any spices at all! It's the flavor black hole of rice! I just read "The Starch Solution" today and am curious to give it a try. It's very hard for me to think I can eat pasta and potatoes without gaining weight but I love pasta so I'm willing to give it a shot. I guess I'm fortunate that I've been making a very slow transition to vegan over the past year. (Going kicking and screaming but still inch by inch getting there) So I'm going to do a 7 day challenge and see how it goes!
So I've been on it for one day. I've only eaten tacos since I wanted to eat foods gentle on my stomach. I ate VERY VERY fatty foods last week: Coconut milk, chia seeds, flax seeds, walnuts, cashews, and full fat greek yogurt. By Friday from eating all that, I started throwing up. I couldn't even keep down water. I was going to wait until Monday to do the McDougal diet but since I felt so sick, I made the switch the next day. I've only been eating white rice, black beans, corn tortillas (since wheat has oil), a little tomato, spinach, corn, and sala. All fat and oil free. I tried not to limit myself but I didn't want to completely gorge myself either. In one day, I've lost a pound and a half. That could be a fluke, of course, but I'm honestly SHOCKED about that. Beans made me gain weight last year when I added them to my diet, but I was also eating a lot of fat then. I'm curious to see how the rest of the week will go.
I'm a newly minted plant-based person and from Spain. Sure people in my country live long lives but they live with chronic disease due to their intakes of high fat foods. My grandmother lived until 95 but had heart disease, chronic inflammation, could barely walk, did not have a great quality of life. Diabetes is running rampant throughout the culture. Cancer is huge. Lots of health issues that don't get reported in the media.
For me it is a taste and texture thing. I love white rice, but brown rice tends to be chewy to me. Maybe I'm not cooking the rice correctly, but I have followed the directions. Oh well, like the message in this video.
I used to do do half and half, but since acquiring the taste I make 3/4 cups brown rice and 1/4 white just do give it the taste and texture a little. People can play with the proportions and get the best of both worlds :9
McDougall's key words for those who do not know him - McDougall "WANTS TO PICK HIS BATTLES CAREFULLY" in order to save the most people - Note - He Says BROWN IS BETTER - it is so difficult for most people to give up the dairy, meat and processed crap he does not want to tell them to give up white rice at the same time - those who understand his message will also eventually realize brown is better - I have organic brown rice at home and occassionally have white at a reastaurant because restaurants make dry crappy brown usually
I am a Filipino and I eat rice 3 times a day. One thing I notice is that RICE is great as long as you combine it with fruits and vegetables. The problem is the meat diet combined with lots of rice. Lots of diabetics here in our country are rice eaters but at the same time meat-eaters. It has been in our culture since we are an archipelagic country where there is an abundance of fish, hogs (pork), beef or cows, goat recipes, etc! We even eat exotic foods made from snakes and reptiles such as frogs, etc. Even dogs are butchered here! Whew! Meat is truly an enemy of human health since we arent designed to eat meat ( th-cam.com/video/sXj76A9hI-o/w-d-xo.html ). For so many years of being meat eaters, chronic illnesses are rampant here. My dad died from aneurysm, my uncles died from hear attack, etc. I did have symptoms of a nasal tumor (nasopharyngeal mass) and thank God when I decided to stop eating meat but continue my rice, veges and fruits, all symptoms are slowly fading away. It's the MEAT, it's the DAIRY and EGGS are poisoning us. If you have chronic symptoms, stop eating those foods and thank me later!!
In Traditional Chinese Medicine it is the main food used to increase nutrient absorption (as it is easy for the body to assimilate). It's the most common food TCM recommends for treating the sick, in the form of soup or congee (traditional Asian porridge). After the person begins to recover, more nutrient dense foods such as beans, mushrooms, seaweed, etc. may be added to the congee. It's also recommended that even after full recovery, people continue eating this to sustain their health.
My vet always tells me to feed my dog white rice and boiled chicken after he has vomited. I once said “I only have brown rice.” Her response???? “Go buy white rice. It is easier on the stomach. Don’t feed your dog brown rice on the bland diet.” So I always have white rice in my house for feeding my dog a bland diet after he gets sick. White rice is a perfectly harmless food for dogs AND people. I actually eat more white rice than brown rice now; I used to only eat brown or wild rice.
***** I used to eat white rice but because of this video i bought brown rice, i ate it yesterday and for the first time in years i had a head ache and now the next day my head feels terrible. I'll stick with white rice.
@@shauntelgill9384 that's a comment from 7 years ago, i have eaten only brown rice for as long as i remember. probably since shortly after this comment. haven't had any headaches since either.
Far eastern Asians had their rice custom-milled to lesser or greater retention of the outer coating of the grain. Nothing wrong with white rice. It is the total diet you have to pay attention to. Some folks can't even digest brown rice (as we know it here) because of serious intestinal/digestive issues.
I prefer white rice due to it's better shelf life and lower cost. I started a starch based diet recently. White rice hasn't been an issue. I lost 4.1 pounds this week. So I see no good reason to ditch white rice.
+Chacha5678 probably because it is less popular and they use what they removed to make white rice in other foods and products, and people are usually ready to pay more for healthier foods...but yeah its bullshit and i think it should be cheaper too.
What do you eat with your rice? Can u give me an example of a typical day? I am looking for just simple meals. Like my fav is rice and Splenda and rice milk or almond milk! I could eat it all day! And I will eat rice with beans and then I get stuck with what else to do
If you eat WFPB you already get more than enough fiber, protein, vitamins and minerals. White rice is then perfect to fill in energy. Besides, white rice has arginine to lysine ratio of 2:1 which offsets high lysine content of some other foods.
@@erastvandoren You are the person commenting about how to midigate the lysine. I'm just saying your approach isn't the best. If you are concerned about it don't eat it. But eating white rice is not an antidote.
I have been eating white rice,mashed potato with salt added with some lentils and salad...As per starch solution advised. But still I am not loosing my weight..
Rice is full of resistant starch, whether it’s brown rice or white rice. If you cool your rice after cooking it and then heat it again it increases the levels of resistant starch. Resistant starch is just as important for your gut bacteria as fiber is.
If i ever do eat wheat its always whole grain which i keep in the freezer and sprout or grind myself if need be however i don't get on with brown rice so eat fragrant white but my fave is buckwheat!!
I'm pre-diabetic Type II trying to lose weight via the potato, rice, vegetables diet of Dr. M. I've been vegetarian for 28 yrs but need to lose 100lbs. I lost 10 lbs since 7-23-18 and it is now 9-12-18. I read that athletes eat white rice before working out going for the high glycemic value of it for quick fuel pre/post workout. How does it according to Dr. M lower your glycemic index? I've been eating white rice and wondering if my weight loss is a healthy weight loss and concerned about my blood sugar levels. I eat raw vegetables via my blender, so it's probably fine nutrition wise and rice/potatoes satisfy my hunger. I read Brown rice has phytic acid and allergy issues and binds with essential minerals and also digestive issues too I guess, so white rice is the rare time a processed food is good. Does anyone know how it lowers the glycemic index where I read the opposite from another Dr and supported by the fact a lot of athletes eat white rice.
1. Rinse 1-2 cups rice in a strainer under cold running water for 30 seconds. Bring 12 cups water to a boil in a large pot with a tight-fitting lid over high heat. Add the rice, stir it once, and boil, uncovered, for 30 minutes. Pour the rice into a strainer over the sink. 2. Let the rice drain for 10 seconds, then return it to the pot, off the heat. Cover the pot and set it aside to allow the rice to steam for 10 minutes. Uncover the rice, fluff with a fork, and season with salt.
I once met a famous old Chinese medicine doctor. He's not only in his 90s but also very healthy. So, people asked him what is your secret for health. He said: there is no secret. If you want to know what I eat, I only eat white rice, white noodle, Bok Choy, and sweet potato.
Do you know what is his name?
Sweet potatoes are a key to longevity
@@mateuszpolkowski5185 Probably started with B and ended in T.
The sweet potato compensated for the bleached rice and flour. McDougall got it wrong.
The secret here is getting your body acclimated to the same foods. Like a car taking premium from one gas station or a car taking any gas from multiple stations.
I eat 2-3 cups of white rice a day(either jasmine or basmati) and I'm losing weight! I love rice!
Eat The Plant Love rice as well, basmati is my fav. and I like jasmine.
Glad to hear you are losing on white rice. I like brown rice but love white.
I just found out I have Multiple Sclerosis and I'm going to do the McDougall diet instead of the harsh medications.
Blessings, Deborah
Scyn bear im doing great!
Thanks for your helpful comment Jasmine!!!
how is your digesting?
@@DeborahBergenbeaderreader How are you doing now?
Still nothing like the pure fluffyness of perfectly steamed white rice tho.
Dear Dr John McDougall, I can't thanks enough for changing my life!
Dr McDougall is the best. Hope he makes more of these short videos
I believe GERMINATED organic brown rice is best. BTW, I became vegan in 1993 because of you Dr. McDougall and I've never looked back-Thanks!
Eating a plate of rice, fava beans and broccoli as I watch this. Feeling great and full of energy!
White or brown?
ENERGY ENERGY ENERGY!!!!
I keep forgetting I got fava beans in my freezer!!
But what about the white wire is getting converted into sugar?
Each time I felt my tummy starts to be Delhi belly, I turn to rice, boil it and eat it hot. My stomach right away is healed! I cannot abandon rice because of dictators
Dr. John McDougall is awesome!!!
When I lived in China, most Chinese people I observed ate white rice, and the people who stuck to traditional Chinese diet were skinny.
I tried to convince a friend in Cambodia to switch to brown rice, wow, she looked at me like I had just suggested eating dirt. When I am in Asia, I just eat white rice and veggies (a modified version of the local diet without the meat/fat) at home it's back to brown rice/potatoes and veggies/beans, either way I have lost about 40 pld, not much left to lose, and I eat as much as I want. the trick for me was losing the fat in a vegan diet, as soon as I dropped the fats I dropped the weight...
My grandmother was a Type 2 brittle diabetic. She spent most of her life gaining tons of weight and eating meat and bowls of ice cream. She grew up in the Great Depression, no rich foods then, and when it was over, she gorged. She asked me what to do. I got her on rice of all kinds, NO meat, NO dairy, very little oil if any, oat meal for breakfast, vegetables and fruit WITHOUT sugar, along with cinnamon in her coffee. It helped her a lot. She lived a lot longer and her blood sugars stabilized. She had a lot less "HIGH" readings on her test meter and less fainting spells from being LOW. In short, starch gave her a better life!
How wonderful that you were able to get your grandmother on board. I wish I had the same success with my family.
@@rogueDukakis Example is the best teacher. When they see you are getting older and nobody knows it, they will want that for themselves.
I AGREE with the good DR...let's not split hairs....eat the rice be it brown or white..WITH veggies...any kind of veggies...even if it is just frozen peas & carrots & corn...what have you...GREAT message here!
I cook half brown rice and half white rice on my rice cooker and love it!
this seems the best solution
doesnt the white rice cook way faster than the brown?
a2isha - soak or start the brown rice first to make it all work out.
Idiot
when I eat white rice I feel so much better.
I really appreciate the flexibility with this lifestyle it's so effortless and amazing
I love an effortless lifestyle!!!!! I l love an amazing lifestyle!!!!
White rice is actually healthier than brown rice
I just love that man!!! :)
Dimi G Agree. The guy is great. He doesn't mince his words. He just says it like it is.
@Dimi, Yes, I try to kiss him every day.
It's very helpful (and traditional) to soak rice (and most other grains) before cooking them. This helps with their digestibility and shortens cooking time. I do this now and my rice comes out perfect:) Good luck!
how much time soaking?
Wise counsel from a physician with clinical experience.
A classic McDougall moment.
White rice is great comfort food! It has no flavor but something about is just very comforting to eat!
It’s the starch! Our brains and our gut bacteria crave starch so it makes us feel good to eat it
I love these little bits of wisdon in your videos!!
His handsomeness is from within and represents he is a responsible, kind-hearted person. If he was a Paleo ambassador, no one would say that.
You’re awesome Dr. Mc Dougall!!!!
I love white rice 💜 basmati my favorite with beans and a salad with avocado🥑😋
But brown rice is sooo delish. Love it.
back in the philippines my friend father 90+years old and still working in the mountain farming doing his thing , one day my friend's father visit in our barrio in cebu city and hangout with my friends father and my friend told me to challenge his dad to hands wrestling and i start hands wrestling his dad and i cant believe i couldn't move his hands his freaking strong and were 5 people challenge his dad and we couldn't beat his 90+years old dad lmao . were guilty on that time lol ..
Not unusual in farmers. They make great armwrestlers. Lookup Cleve Dean. I doubt his grandfather is vegan though. I'm Filipino myself and I've yet to see one turn down fish, pork or shrimp.
I love you Dr. Mcdougall! I live here in Hawaii and rice is at every potluck I ever go to. I want to eat more healthy it saddens me to think of giving up white rice. I'm not saying I never will but at least I can ease into it. Thanks so much for this video!
White rice has helped me a lot, but now I'll try out brown rice. I'm also on starches now and it works great. Thank you so much for all the useful info and for sharing your knowledge.
why do you want to try it.
@@shauntelgill9384 To see how the bowel will react - wheat and some other cereals with insoluble fibers have always been a problem. I think whole rice has also insoluble fibers, but maybe not so agressive. Only bowel will tell. Didn't try as yet because i'm eating potatoes a hundred diffrerent ways now.
Nice vid John and you're 100% right that it's about the overall goal and direction. White rice is still a low fat plant food staple. Had a white roll today and no longer feel like a crack addict lol.
I like what he said, my daughter refuses to eat brown rice and whole wheat bread, so we do the white stuff, I am limiting meat and dairy, and also oil when I can.
Old but Gold
Well I have been eating white rice since childhood everyday! I mean in parts of the place where I come from (Bhutan) people eat always rice-rice in breakfast, lunch and dinner (with curries of course). If there is no rice, it sure looks weird and unusual. People used to eat maize, wheat, millet instead of rice if they did not have wealth in the olden days, but they have now cash to buy white rice everytime. Bottomline-can't live without rice! :D
You're from Bhutan? I've been wanting to know more about that country, the people, the culture and why they are so happy. Care to correspond? Yes?
White rice is actually healthier than brown rice
Do you mean curry paste, or what. What is curry exactly
@@jayteean I am really sorry. Just saw your comment. Somehow, I have missed the notification from TH-cam or it didn't email me a notification.
Yes, I am from Bhutan, but I currently live outside of Bhutan. Let me know what you would like to know. I will try to provide you some answer if I know them .
Apologies again for the late response.
@@Primetime_dads I had meant curry as in cooked vegetables - I guess the closest familiarity in Western audience would be stir fries. But they would be just any vegetables or combination of vegetables cooked with a few spices, herbs, oil and salt. This could be with or without soup or gravy in it. Somehow I have come to know that when someone mentions curry, to a Western mind, it would usually mean cooked vegetables in a watery soup or gravy base. This as I mentioned earlier isn't the case with what I described as 'curry'. Perhaps I have termed the cooked item incorrectly or in a wrong way.
I use a combination of Brown, red, black and quinoa
Use brown rice, cook slowly on moderate heat and add a vegetable stock cube. Delicious.
I love brown rice and it has done wonders to my health. I am partiayl Asian by ancestry and don't gain weight eating white rice that is commonly eaten in south east asia. The white rice that makes me fat is Japanese rice. It is different and starchier. White bread, japanese noodles, italian white pasta makes me fat. Interestingly chinese noodles doesn't make me fat. I guess each one of us reacts differently to foods we consume.
In Africa the average person eats 4-12 cups of rice a day and we are thriving.
Where in Africa is that? Since that is definitely not true for South Africa... lol
It's not just prejudice that's stopping people from switching from white rice to brown. It's that brown rice taste like shit.
Lol
aattitude What do you like about it?
+Doofus its not easy to cook either. Its so easy to mess up.
+Doofus You sure about that? I think it goes better with curry sauce than white rice personally. The fuller flavour really complements the sauce.
Sylvanas Windrunner I haven't tried curry with brown rice, so I don't know for sure, but I imagine that I wouldn't like it more. I grew up eating white rice. None of my encounters with brown rice have been favorable compared to white rice.
I eat both, but white is easier for me to chew. Dr. McDougall is my favorite Vegan doctor to listen to.
I love this guy!
When you switch to brown rice, do it slowly because it is high in fiber. Try 1/8 of a cup (of uncooked) and cook it with white rice, then slowly switch over to brown rice. The fiber helps you feel full longer and slows down the absorption of the starches so the glycemic load is much lower. I read that brown rice can lower the risk of type II diabetes by 12% or more.
Getting off meat & dairy onto a whole food, plant-based diet ends any concern about type II diabetes.
White rice ( raw) keeps for years if stored properly but Brown has a fairly short shelf life.
Well, that's good news!! Thanks for the videos!!
He is so good looking with great intentions of curing mankind
I just love this man
Doc you look good!!
Thank You Dr. McDougall
brown rice has a nutty taste and i actually prefer it to white rice although i was raised on white rice.
Brown rice is a lot more filling to me, but since I've been McDougalling I honestly can't finish a meal because everything I eat is so hearty. My husband is Filipino so it's hard to get him to eat brown rice. He still eats meat so I usually just cook whatever I'm eating, plus I make a meat portion on the side, so it's easier just to have white rice. Good to know that it doesn't make a huge difference.
I'm almost ready to stop food journalling and just trust that it's almost impossible to overeat while McDougalling.
Hubby's eating meat so which rice isn't the issue.
great to hear doc says no to meat and dairy with the rice
Vegetables or beans with white rice neglects any negative effects of white rice. White rice is a natural, whole food. Yes its been processed a little, but much less than all that artificial crap. White rice doesn't make people fat, eating an excess of calories makes people fat.
So True Agree 100%
Eating FAT makes people fat :)
I just put up a video "Is White Rice Healthy" which discusses this comment a bit.
Micheltn eating *too much* fat makes people fat. We all need fat.
A bit yes. A tiny tiny bit from some nuts or an avocado every few days. Not Animal fat like bacon.
Brown rice tastes bad and the texture is off-putting. That is the problem with it. White rice is delicate and delicious!
well if you chew brown rice enough it tastes sweet
i love it
also fills you up
I have the same problem with brown rice, can’t do it. I’ll eat white rice thankyouverymuch
Refined grains are actually healthier, because there are a ton of antinutrients in the husks. You're eating the grains for energy, not for their micronutritional content; that's what you have vegetables for.
Nonsense. "Refined" means depletion of nutrients. By law the government requires white rice to have vitamin additives. Insects won't even eat it.
I eat a diet based on white-rice and white-flour among other starchy-foods. People are always telling me how thin and handsome I am and ask me how I keep in shape. I tell them I eat a diet consisting of starches, to which they respond flabbergasted!
Excellent point!
I'm so glad I can eat white rice. I really don't like the taste of brown rice. I've seasoned the heck out of it and the next day you'd never know I'd given it any spices at all! It's the flavor black hole of rice! I just read "The Starch Solution" today and am curious to give it a try. It's very hard for me to think I can eat pasta and potatoes without gaining weight but I love pasta so I'm willing to give it a shot. I guess I'm fortunate that I've been making a very slow transition to vegan over the past year. (Going kicking and screaming but still inch by inch getting there) So I'm going to do a 7 day challenge and see how it goes!
So I've been on it for one day. I've only eaten tacos since I wanted to eat foods gentle on my stomach. I ate VERY VERY fatty foods last week: Coconut milk, chia seeds, flax seeds, walnuts, cashews, and full fat greek yogurt. By Friday from eating all that, I started throwing up. I couldn't even keep down water. I was going to wait until Monday to do the McDougal diet but since I felt so sick, I made the switch the next day. I've only been eating white rice, black beans, corn tortillas (since wheat has oil), a little tomato, spinach, corn, and sala. All fat and oil free. I tried not to limit myself but I didn't want to completely gorge myself either.
In one day, I've lost a pound and a half. That could be a fluke, of course, but I'm honestly SHOCKED about that. Beans made me gain weight last year when I added them to my diet, but I was also eating a lot of fat then. I'm curious to see how the rest of the week will go.
I'm on day 4 and I haven't lost any additional weight. I wonder if I'm doing something wrong.
i LOVE white rice.
I prefere white rice too, but when it comes to bread I love the dark breads. much more than the white ones.
I'm a newly minted plant-based person and from Spain. Sure people in my country live long lives but they live with chronic disease due to their intakes of high fat foods. My grandmother lived until 95 but had heart disease, chronic inflammation, could barely walk, did not have a great quality of life. Diabetes is running rampant throughout the culture. Cancer is huge. Lots of health issues that don't get reported in the media.
For me it is a taste and texture thing. I love white rice, but brown rice tends to be chewy to me. Maybe I'm not cooking the rice correctly, but I have followed the directions. Oh well, like the message in this video.
My wife is a Filipina. She eats half a plate of rice twice a day. She has weighed 97 lbs for the last 8 years. She does NOT eat fast food EVER.
Seems logical to what he says
Rice & a variety of veggies
No meat 🥩
No dairy 🥛 🧀
No oils
No sugar
And we’ll be ok 👍
I eat brown rice whenever possible, but if white rice is the only thing available, I won't turn it down.
i love watching this video about white rice :)) i looove white rice
Oh Good
I am going to have a white rice & pickle sandwich on white bread.yum
I used to do do half and half, but since acquiring the taste I make 3/4 cups brown rice and 1/4 white just do give it the taste and texture a little. People can play with the proportions and get the best of both worlds :9
For some people, white rice is easier to digest. Rice is always a way better choice than animal products!
McDougall's key words for those who do not know him - McDougall "WANTS TO PICK HIS BATTLES CAREFULLY" in order to save the most people - Note - He Says BROWN IS BETTER - it is so difficult for most people to give up the dairy, meat and processed crap he does not want to tell them to give up white rice at the same time - those who understand his message will also eventually realize brown is better - I have organic brown rice at home and occassionally have white at a reastaurant because restaurants make dry crappy brown usually
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@dabig (lower case) I hate dry crappy brown. I only eat free range rice.
I am a Filipino and I eat rice 3 times a day. One thing I notice is that RICE is great as long as you combine it with fruits and vegetables. The problem is the meat diet combined with lots of rice. Lots of diabetics here in our country are rice eaters but at the same time meat-eaters. It has been in our culture since we are an archipelagic country where there is an abundance of fish, hogs (pork), beef or cows, goat recipes, etc! We even eat exotic foods made from snakes and reptiles such as frogs, etc. Even dogs are butchered here! Whew! Meat is truly an enemy of human health since we arent designed to eat meat ( th-cam.com/video/sXj76A9hI-o/w-d-xo.html
). For so many years of being meat eaters, chronic illnesses are rampant here. My dad died from aneurysm, my uncles died from hear attack, etc. I did have symptoms of a nasal tumor (nasopharyngeal mass) and thank God when I decided to stop eating meat but continue my rice, veges and fruits, all symptoms are slowly fading away. It's the MEAT, it's the DAIRY and EGGS are poisoning us. If you have chronic symptoms, stop eating those foods and thank me later!!
In Traditional Chinese Medicine it is the main food used to increase nutrient absorption (as it is easy for the body to assimilate). It's the most common food TCM recommends for treating the sick, in the form of soup or congee (traditional Asian porridge). After the person begins to recover, more nutrient dense foods such as beans, mushrooms, seaweed, etc. may be added to the congee. It's also recommended that even after full recovery, people continue eating this to sustain their health.
My vet always tells me to feed my dog white rice and boiled chicken after he has vomited. I once said “I only have brown rice.” Her response???? “Go buy white rice. It is easier on the stomach. Don’t feed your dog brown rice on the bland diet.” So I always have white rice in my house for feeding my dog a bland diet after he gets sick. White rice is a perfectly harmless food for dogs AND people. I actually eat more white rice than brown rice now; I used to only eat brown or wild rice.
***** I used to eat white rice but because of this video i bought brown rice, i ate it yesterday and for the first time in years i had a head ache and now the next day my head feels terrible. I'll stick with white rice.
White rice is actually healthier than brown rice
@@shauntelgill9384 that's a comment from 7 years ago, i have eaten only brown rice for as long as i remember. probably since shortly after this comment.
haven't had any headaches since either.
Far eastern Asians had their rice custom-milled to lesser or greater retention of the outer coating of the grain. Nothing wrong with white rice. It is the total diet you have to pay attention to. Some folks can't even digest brown rice (as we know it here) because of serious intestinal/digestive issues.
So awesome I prefer white rice. It just tastes better to me. 🤗
I prefer white rice due to it's better shelf life and lower cost. I started a starch based diet recently. White rice hasn't been an issue. I lost 4.1 pounds this week. So I see no good reason to ditch white rice.
+Trans Feminist Autism And white rice digests faster
+Chacha5678 probably because it is less popular and they use what they removed to make white rice in other foods and products, and people are usually ready to pay more for healthier foods...but yeah its bullshit and i think it should be cheaper too.
You might want to ditch white rice because of the arsenic. Maybe just Google it and you can sleep yourself.
What do you eat with your rice? Can u give me an example of a typical day? I am looking for just simple meals. Like my fav is rice and Splenda and rice milk or almond milk! I could eat it all day! And I will eat rice with beans and then I get stuck with what else to do
My neighbor ditched all rice, eats no carbs. She lost weight and is healthier!!!!!
If you eat WFPB you already get more than enough fiber, protein, vitamins and minerals. White rice is then perfect to fill in energy. Besides, white rice has arginine to lysine ratio of 2:1 which offsets high lysine content of some other foods.
the only way to offset the high lysine content of any food is to eat less of it.
@@larrymaloney877 Plants don't have much lysine.
@@erastvandoren You are the person commenting about how to midigate the lysine. I'm just saying your approach isn't the best. If you are concerned about it don't eat it. But eating white rice is not an antidote.
@@larrymaloney877 It isn't like I'd be concerned about lysine ))
@@erastvandoren no reason to cause concern for others.
Brown rice contains lectin!! Since i changed to white rice, i do not have stomach problem anymore!!
This man is THE BOSS
You don’t need brown rice because you’ll get fiber and more nutrients in veggies 🥦
I have been eating white rice,mashed potato with salt added with some lentils and salad...As per starch solution advised. But still I am not loosing my weight..
He always recommends i think like under 20 grams of fat per day.
I turned vegan and he's the reason why. I watch him alot.
White rice for the win!
Thanks for understanding the culture surrounding brown rice. Only white pandan with healthy Vegetables for me haha :)
Man i loved your videos it is very nice to meet you.. you are THE man..
It’s true in Hawaii we all Eat White Rice
Thanks Doc 😊
Rice is full of resistant starch, whether it’s brown rice or white rice. If you cool your rice after cooking it and then heat it again it increases the levels of resistant starch.
Resistant starch is just as important for your gut bacteria as fiber is.
Thank you so much
Dr. John McDougall is so handsome! xoxo
I like Brown Heirloom Rice myself.
You're the man, John!
I'm a rice racist. I only like white rice
lmfao...silly
I loled.
Idiot
laughed alone in my room XD but yeah white rice is epic
@FreeRangeSoyFarmer Goyem No you're going to the ER on a low carb diet- just a matter of time.
Rice potato pasta oatmeal love it. Live on it. 61 lean and strong
This doctor looks VERY healthy.......I would be inclined to listen to his advice........brown rice though.
@Anton, ........brown rice though.
If i ever do eat wheat its always whole grain which i keep in the freezer and sprout or grind myself if need be however i don't get on with brown rice so eat fragrant white but my fave is buckwheat!!
Oooooh! Thank you so much! I love you.
I eat green rice. By the time i cook a bunch of greens with white rice it turns green.
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I'm pre-diabetic Type II trying to lose weight via the potato, rice, vegetables diet of Dr. M. I've been vegetarian for 28 yrs but need to lose 100lbs. I lost 10 lbs since 7-23-18 and it is now 9-12-18. I read that athletes eat white rice before working out going for the high glycemic value of it for quick fuel pre/post workout. How does it according to Dr. M lower your glycemic index? I've been eating white rice and wondering if my weight loss is a healthy weight loss and concerned about my blood sugar levels. I eat raw vegetables via my blender, so it's probably fine nutrition wise and rice/potatoes satisfy my hunger. I read Brown rice has phytic acid and allergy issues and binds with essential minerals and also digestive issues too I guess, so white rice is the rare time a processed food is good. Does anyone know how it lowers the glycemic index where I read the opposite from another Dr and supported by the fact a lot of athletes eat white rice.
Doctor you have done such a wonderful job advocating the starch diet especially the potato diet.....I have seen so many of your videos... God bless..!
1. Rinse 1-2 cups rice in a strainer under cold running water for 30 seconds. Bring 12 cups water to a boil in a large pot with a tight-fitting lid over high heat. Add the rice, stir it once, and boil, uncovered, for 30 minutes. Pour the rice into a strainer over the sink. 2. Let the rice drain for 10 seconds, then return it to the pot, off the heat. Cover the pot and set it aside to allow the rice to steam for 10 minutes. Uncover the rice, fluff with a fork, and season with salt.