Can I eat rice to lose weight?

Rice is the traditional staple food of China people and the best food for side dishes. However, many people think that rice can make people fat. Many women are afraid to eat rice because of losing weight, or only eat a few mouthfuls of rice every day. Is rice a slimming product? Is it high in calories compared with other foods? How does eating rice help to lose weight?

Is rice a fattening food?

Rice raw material, namely rice, contains nearly 80% starch, but the fat content is extremely low. Every100g of uncooked rice contains about 330 kilocalories. This amount is basically equivalent to lean pork. But rice will not be eaten dry, and each serving of rice needs to be cooked with more than 1.5 times of water. Therefore, after cooked rice, the heat per100g of rice is reduced to about120kcal, which is only equivalent to the heat contained in one and a half apples. If rice is made into thick porridge, 5-6 times of water should be added to one serving of rice, with less calories.

In contrast, the calorie per100g of steamed bread is about 2 10 kcal, sweet bread is about 280 kcal, and biscuits are as high as 450 kcal. That is to say, in terms of starch content, the water content of rice with the same volume is higher, but the starch content is lower than that of steamed bread, bread and biscuits. It can be seen that unless oily ingredients such as fried rice are added to rice, rice is not a fattening food under normal food intake, and rice porridge is a low-energy food.

Many dieters care about rice porridge, but they often try bread, biscuits, cakes and pastries, but they don't know that they are really high-energy foods. In fact, in order to control their weight, women in some developed countries deliberately give up bread and live on rice.

The latest nutritional research also points out that it is difficult to maintain the weight loss effect of eating staple food for a long time, and because of the lack of carbohydrates, it is easy to lead to adverse reactions such as insufficient energy in the nervous system, decreased memory, insomnia, hypoglycemia, and even make people's temper worse. Protein in rice can also help prevent hair loss, dull skin and decreased resistance during weight loss. Even during weight control, you should eat150g staple food every day to maintain normal physiological function.