Re: dry fried rice ???

[Guest guest]

> " Dry Fried Rice : Rice normally should be avoided if you need to lower

> your insulin levels. However clinically it appears that if one fries the

> rice until golden brown with NO oil, the rice structure changes. It can

> then be cooked normally and this form of cooking will release the rice

> sugar more slowly into the blood and will not cause as much of a

> challenge to insulin control. "

I read this too and wasn't impressed. First of all, I get the impression

that he's talking about white rice. In that case, soaking it wouldn't

matter much because all of the minerals (phytate bound or not) have been

milled away. If you were to try it with brown rice, you'd have to soak it,

dry it, and then dry fry it. Otherwise the frying would destroy the enzymes

that soaking uses to eliminate the phytates.

However, what didn't impress me about it is that (since I think he's talking

about white rice) all it does is slow down the absorption of empty calories.

I could make hard candies from sugar and get the same effect by only sucking

on them, a nice slow release of sugar. The fact remains, however, that they

are empty calories. I suppose if rice is a major comfort food for you, you

might not want to cut it out entirely. If that were the case, this might

work to ameliorate some of the effects. Otherwise, I think you're better

off soaking your brown rice and getting some nutrition, or simply not eating

rice at all...

[Guest guest]

At 10:15 AM 4/22/2002 -0500, you wrote:

> > " Dry Fried Rice : Rice normally should be avoided if you need to lower

> > your insulin levels. However clinically it appears that if one fries the

> > rice until golden brown with NO oil, the rice structure changes. It can

> > then be cooked normally and this form of cooking will release the rice

> > sugar more slowly into the blood and will not cause as much of a

> > challenge to insulin control. "

>

>I read this too and wasn't impressed. First of all, I get the impression

>that he's talking about white rice.

You didn't read far enough. Dr. Mercola does not recommend white rice. This

is a quote just a few paragraphs past the part about dry frying rice:

" WARNING!

" This diet will cause you to lose weight. If you do not want or need to

lose weight you can increase the following foods: beans, carrots, squash,

fruits, nuts, brown (not white) rice, millet and yams. Stop the rice and

yams if your original symptoms worsen. You can also add shredded coconut

and avocados to some of your meals to add calories. "

[Guest guest]

> You didn't read far enough. Dr. Mercola does not recommend white

> rice. This is a quote just a few paragraphs past the part about dry

> frying rice:

> ...

Ahh, but then the second part of my criticism still stands. If he

is, in fact, talking about brown rice, heating the rice like that

makes phytate reduction impossible by destroying the phytase enzyme.

Not to mention that a double heating (especially using high

temperatures) is going to destroy more of the B vitamins, EFA and

Vitamin E content. All just to lower the glycemic index of a

food...?

It just seems somewhat wrong-headed to focus more on slowing the

digestion of the food than on maximizing the nutrition of the food.

If we're so convinced that our food is poison that we spend all our

energy eliminating those poisons, how on earth are we going to have

enough energy and money left over to focus on providing ourselves

with adequate nutrition? ...and providing ourselves with adequate

nutrition is virtually the entire premise of WAP and NT.