switched to brown rice, cut back granulated sugar, increased vegetable (even raw) intake
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stronger, leaner, feel great, digestion good, better overall
I am eating minimum 500g vegetable a day, more like 800g, mix between raw and cooked.
everything is better especially muscle function (mind muscle connection, flexibility, relaxation, suppleness)
btw whatever carbs I reduced from lowering sugar I replaced with starches (brown rice, not-orange sweet potato , potatoes, oatmeal, some bread)
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@sunsunsun are you thriving, getting better tho?
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are you getting your daily carrot in?
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@sunsunsun
Does brown rice have more b1 then normal jasmine/bismati/white rice???
Although I heard brown rice is harder to digest then white rice which would be a no go for a sibo boy like me -
@engineer no
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@alfredoolivas yes
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@gg12 brown rice seems perfectly fine if cooked more . the package says 35 min, I do 50 min. 35 min it's still gritty. 50min it is soft and fluffy and sort of smells like popcorn. I also experimented with soaking overnight , vinegar in soak water, etc, none of it really matters, now I just soak it when I wake up and cook it later in the day, soaking time doesn't matter much.
brown rice has more vitamins and minerals and eating 500g carbs from mostly starches a day it makes significant difference in vitamin and minerals
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@gg12 if you're gonna stick with white rice , parboiled rice is the in between of white rice and brown rice.it is white rice but before being dehusked, it is soaked in steaming water then dried, then processed as white rice. this makes nutrients go into the rice grain. the rice stays firm and doesn't get gummy. notice that parboiled rice is sold in normal rice packages as well and takes just as long if not longer than white rice to cook (25 min on package vs 15 min for plain jasmine) , don't get it confused with those partially cooked converted/parboiled rices that come in those microwaveable packets. those are gross.
I get all jasmine rices btw for white , parboiled, and brown
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also posting here, someone on rpf posted about embryo rice, this is something I am looking into, apparently, and im not sure, it is usually brown rice , and in the package they will also put in the embryo from the processing of other rice into white rice to boost the nutrients. I might be wrong, it might also be brown rice that is only partially processed so that it removes something but retains the embryo, im not sure, it's sold at asian supermarkets and I haven't tried it yet.
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@sunsunsun said in switched to brown rice, cut back granulated sugar, increased vegetable (even raw) intake:
stronger, leaner, feel great, digestion good, better overall
Same here. After years of avoiding veggies due to SIBO, I’ve been averaging roughly a kilo of baby potatoes daily since December of last year and like you, I’m leaner, my digestion, appetite, temp, pulse rate, energy level, mood, cycle and hair volume improved and the most surprising thing is their positive effect on my PTSD. From the moment I reintroduced them, I haven’t had a single PTSD attack, something that had been a daily occurrence since my mum’s tragic passing almost 4 years prior. Just as surprising was waking the following morning, and every morning since, with my midsection noticeably leaner—my jeans are much looser in the waist now—which seemed wild to me because not only did starch used to bloat me to the point of looking pregnant, I’m having far more calories.
