Do you really think rice cakes are healthy?
IFlover90
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They have almost no nutritional value. Are they even good? I don't think so.
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No but they taste nice with vegemite on them0
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Or almond butter
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Or even whipped peanut butter (curse you Kraft)0
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For me - NO!!!
I am allergic to rice and they would make me incredibly sick :P0 -
How do you term healthy? I buy organic honey ones that I love! For a crunchy snack they are much better then some processed junk. Don't you malign my rice cakes! 0
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No rice!
Rice is not good for health0 -
No rice!
Rice is not good for health
Indeed, look at all those Asians wasting away, they'll be extinct soon.0 -
they're a good alternative to other things. I think they are a good thing to snack on0
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No rice!
Rice is not good for health
Care to explain why. Seriously, I am very interested. I am sceptic about many health claims online though so care to explain via some linked peer-reviewed studies why rice is not good for your health?0 -
Healthy is a matter of perspective. Low calorie and lacking in nutritional value is an improvement to people on a high calorie no nutritional value diet. And perhaps a downgrade for people snacking on fruits and veggies, who are in that small percentage. A lot of folks would do well to eat more rice cakes. The calories are minimal, if you like them, eat them.0
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Really?! I wonder what the Chinese have been doing for centuries....No rice!
Rice is not good for health0 -
@OP: If you don't like the taste, then don't eat it. If you don't find it nutritious and worth the calories, then don't eat it or if you do eat it because of nothing else available and/or you find it yummy, then budget the calories in.
To me personally, everyfood is a nutrition vs. taste thing. I eat veggies, lean meats etc for nutrition. I eat ice cream daily because of taste. To me spending 200 calories daily for something I can easily budget in my calories AND something that keeps me sane and away from binging is worth 200 calories a day. Figure out where rice cakes fit for you!0 -
Plus they taste nice with peanut butter on them.0
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Really?! I wonder what the Chinese have been doing for centuries....No rice!
Rice is not good for health
With a name like Abhishek I am assuming he's Indian so he already knows about rice eating culture. Unfortunately, the internets brocscience got to him too
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For me...........it is healthier and safer than a bar of chocolate, as I can stop at one :laugh:
Chocolate chip ones taste awesome when broken up and added to greek yoghurt.0 -
Love my rice cakes ! The caramel minis from Aldi's (70 calories in 8) and topped with 1 Tbs of Nutuella (100 calories) is a super fix for my Chocolate Candy fix. Love the other flavored as well. cheese and ranch.
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WHAT?! I PUT PEANUT BUTTER ALL OVER THAT STUFF IT'S GOOD WHY WOULD YOU EVEN SAY THAT OMG0
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For me...........it is healthier and safer than a bar of chocolate, as I can stop at one :laugh:
Chocolate chip ones taste awesome when broken up and added to greek yoghurt.
Actually melt some dark chocolate & add some sriracha sauce into it, then dip the rick cakes into it & let it go hard. Chilli-chocolate rice cakes....... yummmmmmm0 -
I get wholegrain cheese flavoured ones, top with cream cheese and smoked ham. A little slow release carbs, fat and protein to keep me going so I think they are a good snack!
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Really?! I wonder what the Chinese have been doing for centuries....No rice!
Rice is not good for health
With a name like Abhishek I am assuming he's Indian so he already knows about rice eating culture. Unfortunately, the internets brocscience got to him too
If it was coming from an American/English/australian I'd be calling 'ignorance'. I'm from Aus and living in Japan and can say YES they eat their rice but they don't eat anywhere near the junk that we do in the West. It's awesome.
Bread is the evil stuff, right?0 -
No rice!
Rice is not good for health
Care to explain why. Seriously, I am very interested. I am sceptic about many health claims online though so care to explain via some linked peer-reviewed studies why rice is not good for your health?
See, i have a been there done that experiences and i am telling from my own experience and not making up...
Rice contains a lot of carbs, these carbs when digested into the system is converted into fats and you know what happens when a lot of fat is accumulated in the body...
Rice is good for people who work very very hard like farmers and peasants of developing country and not for people in USA.
My weight loss was slow initially but became rapid when i completely abandoned rice!0 -
Really?! I wonder what the Chinese have been doing for centuries....No rice!
Rice is not good for health
With a name like Abhishek I am assuming he's Indian so he already knows about rice eating culture. Unfortunately, the internets brocscience got to him too
If it was coming from an American/English/australian I'd be calling 'ignorance'. I'm from Aus and living in Japan and can say YES they eat their rice but they don't eat anywhere near the junk that we do in the West. It's awesome.
Bread is the evil stuff, right?
You look at most (if not all) cultures and you will find high amounts of carbs usage. Indians have bread/rice. Japanese have noodles/rice. I don't eat alot of chinese but see rice as a staple product. Arabs are big on bread and rice too. Africans eat alot of bread/rice. Italians are big on pasta and bread. Most of the european countries consume high amounts of breads. US is high amounts of breads and pasta too.
Eating carbs is good and has served us well for many millenias but it was declared recently as an evil (I think dr. Atkins started the trend?). Carbs was and still is the main source of nutrition and calories for human race because of ease of availability and cost0 -
No rice!
Rice is not good for health
Care to explain why. Seriously, I am very interested. I am sceptic about many health claims online though so care to explain via some linked peer-reviewed studies why rice is not good for your health?
See, i have a been there done that experiences and i am telling from my own experience and not making up...
Rice contains a lot of carbs, these carbs when digested into the system is converted into fats and you know what happens when a lot of fat is accumulated in the body...
Rice is good for people who work very very hard like farmers and peasants of developing country and not for people in USA.
My weight loss was slow initially but became rapid when i completely abandoned rice!
when i lived in Japan I ate rice daily and was the thinnest I've ever been, and I sure as hell wasn't farming or being a peasant.
People don't eat it right is all. The correct one-serve of rice for you is about the size of your clenched fist, not the whole plateful. Rice is fine for you if you eat it right.0 -
i use it as a bread replacement and calories wise its WAY better. plus i enjoy the taste 0
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also, go for lower GI rice like basmati, koshi-hikari or brown. i love the basmine rice (jasmine basmati hybrid)0
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No rice!
Rice is not good for health
Care to explain why. Seriously, I am very interested. I am sceptic about many health claims online though so care to explain via some linked peer-reviewed studies why rice is not good for your health?
See, i have a been there done that experiences and i am telling from my own experience and not making up...
Rice contains a lot of carbs, these carbs when digested into the system is converted into fats and you know what happens when a lot of fat is accumulated in the body...
Rice is good for people who work very very hard like farmers and peasants of developing country and not for people in USA.
My weight loss was slow initially but became rapid when i completely abandoned rice!
So you cannot provide a scientific reason. Gotcha.
BTW, what you're talking about is weight loss. See, many people tend to eat alot more calories easily when consuming carbs. Carbs can be very high in calories so its no surprise. However, weightloss doesn't always mean health. You talked about rice as if its NaOH and will kill your flesh and bones after contact. You got your weight loss by decreasing your calories and hard work. I have done my weight loss via hard work and eating everything in moderation. Mine is slow. Sure. But it is fine because I am MUCH healthier than folks who have done the fast track of weight loss. I eat everything. I don't binge anymore because there really isn't anything to binge... I eat everything as it is!
Don't deprive yourself of food in the name of health. You can be healthy and eat rice cakes0 -
They are tasty with vegemite and cheese on and low in cals. Thats all I need to know.0
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No rice!
Rice is not good for health
Care to explain why. Seriously, I am very interested. I am sceptic about many health claims online though so care to explain via some linked peer-reviewed studies why rice is not good for your health?
See, i have a been there done that experiences and i am telling from my own experience and not making up...
Rice contains a lot of carbs, these carbs when digested into the system is converted into fats and you know what happens when a lot of fat is accumulated in the body...
Rice is good for people who work very very hard like farmers and peasants of developing country and not for people in USA.
My weight loss was slow initially but became rapid when i completely abandoned rice!
So you cannot provide a scientific reason. Gotcha.
BTW, what you're talking about is weight loss. See, many people tend to eat alot more calories easily when consuming carbs. Carbs can be very high in calories so its no surprise. However, weightloss doesn't always mean health. You talked about rice as if its NaOH and will kill your flesh and bones after contact. You got your weight loss by decreasing your calories and hard work. I have done my weight loss via hard work and eating everything in moderation. Mine is slow. Sure. But it is fine because I am MUCH healthier than folks who have done the fast track of weight loss. I eat everything. I don't binge anymore because there really isn't anything to binge... I eat everything as it is!
Don't deprive yourself of food in the name of health. You can be healthy and eat rice cakes
You should read health magazines and papers to know more about effects of eating rice....
See since i am an indian and not caucasian,My body structure and build up is vastly different.Rice is known to be a leading cause of obesity and diabetics amongst asians and specifically south Asians..
I became obese during my teenage years precisely because of my consumption of rice and other items like mango,banana.Even in those days i was not a junk eater...
During my initial days of weight loss program My weight loss was very slow.So i went to see a nutritionist who told me to abandon eating rice completely and now 1 year later i am 94 lbs down and still loosing 2 lbs every week.0 -
And by the way...by rice i was referring to white rice and not others
here is what researchers say about consumption of white rice
" A team of researchers led by Qi Sun, MD, at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, found eating white rice on daily basis could boost high risk for developing type 2 diabetes and also causing obesity. Dr. Sun and the team of researchers at Harvard applied data from four different studies to determine their findings across the Pacific Ocean countries. The study is being published in the journal BMJ.
The first two studies were taken from Asian countries include China and Japan. The second set of two studies were taken from Western countries include America and Australia. All samples on those four studies were diabetes-free when the studies started.
Overall, researchers analyzed 13,284 incident cases of type 2 diabetes. Total samples include 352,384 participants. Researchers had conducted follow-up periods that range from 4 years to 22 years.
Researchers found individuals in Asian countries consumed about three to four servings of white rice per day. Compared to people in Western countries, they only consumed about one to two servings per week. Researchers believe by increase the amount of servings of white rice per person per day will also increase the diabetes risk by 10%.
Researchers advised Chinese and Japanese and other Asian populations to consider eating less white rice. Aside of white rice, researchers also warned other type of white color carbohydrates could also have side effects for developing type 2 diabetes. Those “white color” foods include white bread, white pasta, rice noodles, ramen, and white potatoes."0 -
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You should read health magazines and papers to know more about effects of eating rice....
See since i am an indian and not caucasian,My body structure and build up is vastly different.Rice is known to be a leading cause of obesity and diabetics amongst asians and specifically south Asians..
I became obese during my teenage years precisely because of my consumption of rice and other items like mango,banana.Even in those days i was not a junk eater...
During my initial days of weight loss program My weight loss was very slow.So i went to see a nutritionist who told me to abandon eating rice completely and now 1 year later i am 94 lbs down and still loosing 2 lbs every week.
First off, health magazines are NOT a good source of info. They give you the latest fads and diet pills sponsored by the sellers. Which is why I asked for Peer-Reviewed research which isn't funded by said companies.
Second, I AM Asian also. We're not unique species. Rice doesn't just magically make us fat and not make white people fat. Rice isn't racist.
Eat the damn rice cake. Just eat it in moderation! I eat fruits, carbs and everything and I, along with many others, are losing weight.0
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