Does eating a lot of white rice make you fat?
White rice is an indispensable food in every family's meal, so does eating a lot of white rice make you fat?
Does eating a lot of white rice make you fat?
Lao Dong newspaper quoted Dr. Do Thi Phuong Ha from the National Institute of Nutrition as saying that most Vietnamese people have the habit of eating a lot of rice. Eating rice helps you feel full for a long time and has enough energy to function all day.
However, most people do not know that rice contains a lot of sugar. Therefore, eating a lot of rice can cause high blood sugar levels. This is also the main cause of dangerous complications, affecting health as well as quality of life.
According to information from the Institute of Food Safety, although white rice is one of the foods containing many nutritional values, eating too much can affect your health.
According to Dr. Ha, eating too much rice is also a cause of obesity. A diet containing too much white rice is proven to increase the risk of obesity. White rice is a refined grain that is absorbed faster when entering the body. This makes you feel hungry faster and crave more food, thereby causing excess energy that puts you at risk of gaining weight.
How many bowls of rice a day is enough?
Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Xuan Ninh - Vietnam Institute of Applied Medicine said that on average, Vietnamese people eat about 4 bowls of rice per day. The amount of rice eaten in a day by Vietnamese people is equal to the starch portion in a week of European people. This is also the reason why diabetes in Asian countries and Vietnam is much higher than in European countries.
According to a study by the Harvard School of Public Health (USA), eating white rice increases the risk of diabetes, even more than carbonated drinks. The results of this study show that consuming 1 bowl of white rice per day will increase the risk of diabetes by 11%.
Eating too much rice will increase the risk of heart-related diseases. Therefore, you should not eat more than 3 bowls a day, practice the habit of reducing the amount of white rice in each meal, instead diversify the accompanying dishes./.