Eating Rice every day

United States
August 17, 2012 9:50pm CST
Since I was young, my parents made me eat rice every day if not every other day in my meals. Is that good? I know it's a grain and grain is great for your body, but I'm worried that too much of one thing is never great. Should i diversify the grains I eat everyday such as eating noodles once in a while?
14 responses
@redtesha (1773)
• Indonesia
18 Aug 12
white rice is good, in my country, white rice is staple food and everyone love white rice so much. White rice has good taste, better another staple food, but everything you take TOO much can be not good again .. every single a plate of white rice you eat, you already get 242 calories and you can get diabetes because white rice has a lot of sugar inside. so sometimes i change my white rice with another meals, for example change with red rice, noodles, wheat, corn, bread, cassava, or potatoes. maybe the taste is not good as rice but they are healthy and a lot of carbohydrates, same as white rice. specially for corn, i love corn so much, i can eat a lot of corn and can feel full too with it, so i choose corn for my second option for my staple food.
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• Israel
18 Sep 12
I love red rice. It's nice and healthy. The fiber is good for you. Red rice is also rally good reheated. Red rice is a version of long grain Thai rice. I'm not fond of Thai rice. It's better than many other types of white rice, but not my favorite. For white long grain, I prefer Persian rice. Now of course I need sushi rice and risotto rice and... and... Each dish needs a special rice. In Israel we have a huge selection of rices.
• United States
18 Aug 12
I've never heard of red rice before. What is that?
@elivna04 (51)
• Philippines
18 Aug 12
Here in Philippines, we always eat rice. Breakfast, Lunch and dinner. Our meal will not be complete without eating rice.
• United States
18 Aug 12
Have you ever gone a day without eating rice?
• Philippines
20 Aug 12
I did. But the feeling is different. It's like I'm always tired and I feel very weak.
@AKRao24 (27424)
• India
18 Aug 12
Dear Lastbrother, first of all welcome to Mylot! You have posted an interesting discussion, in the sense that now a days most of the people have this question in their minds and they often discuss this with their friends or relatives. Before see if rice is god for health or not, let us see what a balanced diet should have. One should consume food containing Carbohydrates, Proteins and fats together with required trace minerals required by the body. Vitamins completes the balanced diet. Here Carbohydrates are acting as main source of energy that is required by our body. If eaten in excess this may converted into fats and stored in the body. the examples of Carbohydrates are Sugars and starchy substances. Wheat, rice, Oats and Maize etc are main sources of carbohydrates. Proteins are building units of body and they are available in meat,eggs, fish, soybean, pulses etc. This is utilised by the body in building its structures ;like muscles and other organs. If eaten in excess this thing also gets converted into fat through different process in the body. Fats are direct source of energy and they are stored in the body as reserves to utilise them in case of emergency. They are important to act as vehicle for fat soluble Vitamins like Vitamin ADE and K. Oils, Ghee and Fats from animal sources are good sources of Fats. Nuts often have good amount of fats. Trace minerals and vitamins are required by the body to perform its metabolism properly. they don't have any caloric value. Now coming to your discussion,Rice! Rice is a source of carbohydrate. This is eaten as staple food in many parts of the World. In India all the coastal areas are rich in production of rice and they have rice as their staple food. Similarly most of the southern states and eastern states have rice as their staple food. There is no harm having rice as source of energy in the form of carbohydrate. Eating excess of carbohydrates in any form.may it be as rice or wheat you are going to have them accumulated them in the body as fat! Thus in conclusion I would like to tell you that rice is a very natural source of carbohydrate and you can have it on regularly without any problem so long you are not over eating it! Thanks for the nice discussion ! I liked participating in it!
• United States
18 Aug 12
I like your post! It is great and helps me understand a lot more about this. I'll try not to overeat my rice. I'll aim to have a balanced diet.
@lampar (7584)
• United States
18 Aug 12
Eating rice every day is fine as long as you are eating other type of food too at the same time, for example like apart from eating rice, you also eat meat, vegetable, soup etc...in your meal. But you feel tire of doing that, you can eat noodle, spaghetti, macoroni, etc to replace rice once a while to enrich your appetite. But if your parent only allow you to eat rice alone in everty meal, then it will be bad for your health. So far i never heard that parent will force their children to eat rice only in every meal they served, that probably will never happen.
• United States
18 Aug 12
I'm hoping I never have to eat rice by itself. It sounds bland.
@Canellita (12029)
• United States
5 Nov 12
Until recently I would have said sure it's okay to eat rice every day. People in Asia have been doing it for centuries. Now that some of the rice grown in the world presents a problem with arsenic I am not so sure that eating it often is a good thing.
@kulisap (70)
21 Aug 12
I think if you substitute it with rice, it's practically going to be the same thing. Rice is good for the body, but that is as long as you eat it in moderation. Like eating a 3 cups of rice a day, for me is normal. What's not is eating twice the amount of that. If you are really concerned about the health benefits of rice, you try substituting white rice with brown or red rice. Those are healthier options.
21 Aug 12
*Sorry, I meant if substitute it with noodles.
@indahfth (11161)
• Indonesia
18 Aug 12
Every day, I used to eat rice. For Indonesia, rice is the staple food. Indonesia people, do not feel satisfied, if not eating, using the rice. But, eating lots of rice, it is not recommended for diabetics. Because rice contains a lot of sugar.
@mermaidivy (15395)
• United States
19 Aug 12
I almost eat rice everyday too and i feed my son the same way. I like rice and my son ist loves rice as much as i do. I don't think it's a big deal to eat rice evveryday but i do like something for dinner sometimes so i make noodle in soup or stired fried noodle with meat and vegetables.
@natliegleb (5175)
• India
19 Aug 12
For a scientific fact let me tell you that rice is not good for health if you keep eating it for long time and its best to get some tiffins or some natural breakfast ,so try to avoid it at times,i also get bored with rice,it makes me fatigue and feel tired after eating it
@ardoy0731 (7308)
• Philippines
18 Aug 12
I think it would okay to eat rice everyday unless not too much. We used to have rice in our every meal here.Rice is always part of our daily life here.I do eat rice everyday which give energy somehow.
@prashu228 (37524)
• India
18 Aug 12
no problem at all, untill and unless, doctors advice you , to stop or eat less, rice is the main food in our country too, no meal is complete without it.
• India
18 Aug 12
Don't worry we eat rice every day through out our life time here. Eating noodles on alternative days may be bad. Rice/ wheat is good for you. So don't worry.
• India
23 Aug 12
Rice is also a staple food of our country.But taking rice in every meal is not advisable. If u take rice in lunch, skip rice for dinner. U can eat noodles, or soups with lots of veggies and chicken which would make a complete meal.
• India
30 Oct 12
Yes ofcourse, eating rice everyday that too during lunch, keeps our body with good stamina. Indians mostly like to add rice in their lunch. south indian peoples eat variety rices like tomato rice, lemon rice, tamarind rice and so on. So its must to take rice in our daily meals and its yummy tooo