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Why do bodybuilders eat so much rice? You’d think that rice isn’t very healthy for you.
White rice has a lot of carbohydrates. However, brown rice is a cheap, complex carbohydrate.
And it has a lot of fiber. And it doesn’t taste very good.
It does if you mix it with fruit, vegetables, meat and other flavors. No one should eat
brown rice by itself.
Though I’ve seen a lot of brown rice based granola bars and cereal bars.
Another reason is popular is because it is gluten free and safe for those allergic to
wheat.
Is rice easier to cook? Can even a body builder do it?
It’s easier to eat, since you don’t have to chew. Rice takes longer to cook than wheat
and pasta, but you can put it in a rice cooker and leave it to go train.
While you have to babysit spaghetti while it cooks.
And pasta is usually made from white flour, which has few materials. Conversely, brown
rice is loaded with nutrients and cheaper than white rice in most cases.
And white rice has a high glycemic index.
It’s worse than sugar in that regard, whereas brown rice fills you up. And body builders
don’t want to waste time cooking and eating when they can be training.
Yet sumo wrestlers load up on rice too. That’s not a model you want to follow.
Sumo wrestlers eat a lot and then immediately take a nap, while body builders eat and then
go burn some calories. And not all body builders eat rice.
They eat protein bars instead.
Many of which contain brown rice as one of their ingredients. So even guys who won’t
touch a rice dish end up eating some rice.
Along with soy isolate protein and peanut butter and other sources of protein.
And girls will put anything on their skin and hair in the name of beauty. In fact, they’ll
even put kiwi slices on their eyes, and douse themselves with shampoo containing ingredients,
best served in fruit salad in the quest for perfection.
Fine, I’ll stop bashing you for eating rice.