White or Brown Rice

White or Brown Rice 

Rice 

I’d like to write a blog-post on rice. Why would you ask. It’s just nutrition. With the difference that bodybuilders eat a lot of rice. White rice and brown rice. We use it to manipulate our body-composition, not only to eat for energy. We manipulate our endogenous insulin with white rice, so we don’t need to inject (exogenous) insulin. The most important difference between brown and white rice is its effect on insulin output. This is called the Glycemic index.  I don’t want to confuse you with all aspects of insulin usage and nutrition. The timing, counting, cycling. That’s why we will use this blog-post to explain the nutritional value of rice.

Foods are used by strength athletes in the first place as a source of energy, to perform heavy work-outs. The most important source of energy for the strength athletes body are carbohydrates (especially glycogen) and fat. In a heavy work-out the body will first choose to burn carbohydrates. If the depots of glycogen are getting empty, the body switches to the combustion of body-fat and proteins. Body-fat as a combustible needs 10 percent more oxygen to produce the same amount of energy. Proteins are even more unproductive because they can only produce around 50 percent of the maximum energy. These problems can be prevented, by eating a carbohydrates rich meal before a heavy work-out to fill the glycogen depots and if you train very long or perform aerobics after your work-out you can eat during or between work-out sessions.