Can eating brown rice help you lose weight and stay healthy? If you have this physical problem, it is better to eat white rice

With the rise of health awareness in modern times, you may often encounter waiters in restaurants asking, "Would you like brown rice or white rice?" First of all, if it were me, I would definitely choose "white rice".

Don't think of fiber foods as a constipation savior

Brown rice and oatmeal contain more fiber, and it is not without reason that they are considered to aid digestion and bowel movements. This is because fiber can indeed promote intestinal peristalsis, absorb water, and make people feel fuller. However, after being exaggerated, many people regard fiber foods as a savior for constipation. Eating too much fiber foods may turn into diarrhea or even aggravate constipation.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, because fiber is difficult to digest, it requires more qi and blood to help. Naturally, it stays in the digestive system longer, which makes you feel fuller. Therefore, many people think that eating brown rice can make them feel full and is suitable for weight loss. In fact, it is because it is difficult to digest and takes a longer time to digest, so you won’t feel hungry so quickly and will feel full. Simply put, the more filling something is, the harder it is to digest.

White rice is easier to digest than brown rice

Food that is difficult to digest will cause a burden on the body for people with poor spleen and stomach digestion ability and weak spleen and stomach qi and blood. As mentioned before, a person has a fixed amount of Qi and blood, especially for people with a weak constitution. A normal and healthy person has ten units of Qi and blood in the body, while a person with a weak constitution has less, perhaps only seven units of Qi and blood. On the premise that white rice is easier to digest than brown rice, if white rice requires one unit of qi and blood to help digestion, then brown rice requires two units of qi and blood. Can you imagine that if a person with a weak constitution eats brown rice, would the qi and blood in his body be more insufficient than if a healthy person eats white rice?

If we look at the digestion time, if white rice can be digested in half an hour and brown rice takes an hour, then half an hour after the white rice is digested, the Qi and blood (energy) no longer need to be used for digestion, but can be used by other parts of the body, such as working, thinking, exercising, keeping warm, and resisting external evil (resistance and immunity also require Qi and blood energy).

Don’t over-expend your body

A major focus of health preservation is not to let the body consume too much qi and blood. Only when there is enough qi and blood can the immunity and resistance be good! If energy can be conserved and not over-consumed, the whole person will look full of energy. The spleen and stomach are the foundation of acquired constitution. If the spleen and stomach are full of energy, the army against evil will be stronger. At this time, if external evil virus invades, people with weak spleen and stomach qi and blood will be more susceptible to illness or infection than those with sufficient qi and blood.

Unless you have a constitution with excess energy, that is, an empirical constitution. They have excessive qi and blood (that is, ten units more than normal). Fiber foods are very suitable for people with a positive constitution and constipation. However, if you easily get diarrhea after eating sensitive foods, or have constipation problems, bloating, poor appetite, etc., you should choose white rice which is easier to digest. Of course, in addition to choosing white rice on a regular basis, the fundamental problem lies in physical weakness, which cannot be cured by paying attention to diet. You still need to find a way or see a doctor to adjust the spleen and stomach problems back to normal. On the contrary, if the spleen, stomach and body have excess Qi and blood, not only will the immunity and ability to resist evil be enhanced, but the body's basic metabolic capacity will also be better. When working, because the brain is the sea of ​​marrow and the marrow is transformed from Qi and blood, the mind will be more alert when working.

(box)Diet maintenance is based on the principle of good digestion

So how do you judge whether it is easy to digest? The principle is very simple: your stomach won't feel uncomfortable after eating.

There is no burden, which means it is easy to digest and naturally does not require the body to use too much qi and blood energy.

This article is from Sancai Culture "What Chinese Medicine Practitioners Are Quietly Doing to Maintain Health through Subtraction: Treating illness and maintaining health is not about desperately replenishing, the balance of yin and yang is the best medicine for the human body! 》