One Weird Trick for Weight Loss if you like Rice and Have a Kitchen and Big Pots and Good Water Filtration

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Alright, I’ve been meaning to write this up for a while. I hurt my neck a while back, and while I was recovering, I couldn’t exercise as much as I used to. So, if I wanted to stay relatively thin, I had to explore changes to my diet.

There’s science to the below: When we eat larger molecules, they take longer to get digested and to break down, and they’re absorbed more slowly. Because of all of this, especially for carbohydrates, large carbohydrate (e.g. starch) molecules, cause less of an insulin spike, promote the opposite of insulin resistance, and also give us more stable energy between meals.

But, it’s actually hard to get more long carbohydrate chains and less shorter chains (not to mention sugars). One thing to do is to eat only unprocessed whole grains, beans, tubers, such as rolled oats, whole grain rice, beans, sweet potatoes, white potatoes, and whole grain wheat (and to avoid flour and sugar).

[Side note: I actually recommend against eating white potatoes, even fresh peeled potatoes, because some people, like me, are extremely sensitive to even small amounts of solanine, which is naturally found in potatoes. It can cause respiratory depression and brain fog, and it can build up over weeks in the body.]

Ok, but we can do even better than that list of unprocessed foods above! And that’s what we’re going to do.

What we’re going to do is (relatively conveniently) process white rice in a way that increases the ratio of long chain starch even more than normal. It makes cooking just a little bit more complicated, but the resulting impact is very large, in terms of its metabolic effects.

[Side note: This will also substantially decrease any residual arsenic that’s in the rice, too. [...]"