Brown Rice for better health

[Beau]

I'm on Day 3 right now of the brown rice fast. I'm feeling normal and am surprised that I really don't need to eat very much. I've been having the shake in the morning before work, eat a bowl mid-day and one in the evenings. I don't even have that much in each meal. For flavor I am mixing in ghee butter and a flax seed gamosia. We'll see how I feel after a few more days of it...

 

[abstract]

Thanks to Heimdalr and wanderer for filing us in on your progress. :)

 

[3DStudent]

I do a different variation that some of you might want to try as to variation to just steamed brown rice, to mix it up a bit.

Funny that you posted this, my family does something similar, just without the tomato sauce. My mom got the recipe from this nanny she knows, so we call it "nanny rice". It really gives the rice a better flavor and you cannot mistake the lovely aroma. :)

 

[kannas]

I'm not on a brown rice fast; however, I eat a lot of brown rice and love it as well as drink rice milk. I wanted to share something about what else I use brown rice for. I cook a huge pot of brown rice with turkey for my dogs (I have four dogs) once a week. They love brown rice! Sometimes it is beef instead of turkey, and I also throw in carrots. I've been doing this for several years for their health and nutrition. By the way, I haven't used a pressure cooker in years and after reading this thread, I may get a new one as I cook a lot of brown rice.

 

[wanderer]

A fast, as I understand it, can be any regimen where you severely restrict your caloric intake. I'm on day 2 of the brown rice fast now, and haven't experienced any of the usual symptoms, even though I'm kicking caffeine at the same time. I recommend it for a first time faster, and it might be all you ever need.

I'm on day three. The instructions I read were not so much focused on calorie restriction as just focusing on the single food to the exclusion of others. You sorta naturally eat less anyway though you aren't supposed to focus on that.

Yes, severely restricting your caloric intake is not quite right, although you would normally eat very little solid food on most fasts. One aspect of a fast is to give your digestive system a rest. Consuming only a single food, as you say, or a small group of foods is more accurate.

The main thing that fasting has taught me is that I feel so much better when I'm not eating, that food was causing so many problems.

For those of us with the infantile black/white program running it's so much easier to eat nothing at all than having to practice discernment and discipline in eating every day. I'm still working on that, though I've made a lot of progress.

The C's say not to focus on the body, Yogananda said it's what comes out of your mouth, not what goes into it that's most important. But I know from hard experience that it's impossible to think and behave rationally, much less grow spiritually, when your body is toxic.

 

[Mrs. Peel]

I'm not on a brown rice fast; however, I eat a lot of brown rice and love it as well as drink rice milk. I wanted to share something about what else I use brown rice for. I cook a huge pot of brown rice with turkey for my dogs (I have four dogs) once a week. They love brown rice! Sometimes it is beef instead of turkey, and I also throw in carrots. I've been doing this for several years for their health and nutrition. By the way, I haven't used a pressure cooker in years and after reading this thread, I may get a new one as I cook a lot of brown rice.

I've been checking out rice milk. Today I was at Trader Joe's and WholeFoods. Both carried products that were called Rice "Drink" or Rice "Beverage" and all had some kind of sun/safflower/canola oil and evaporated cane juice.

What is a good brand of rice "milk?" At least that one can find in the U.S.

 

[3DStudent]

I haven't really looked for a good brand of rice milk. The ones I've seen in the store always have something bad in them it seems so I've just made my own when I wanted it. This is the recent thread on how to make it:

http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=15332.0

Also you can check out an automatic milk maker here: _http://www.soymilkquick.com/index.php

 

[abstract]

The ones I've seen in the store always have something bad in them it seems so I've just made my own when I wanted it.

Hmmm, the brand of rice milk i get at the store i go to is called "rice dream" rice drink. It does have some canola/safflower oil in it, but other than that i didn't see anything.

Is the canola/safflower oil bad for you? I know to stay away from partially hydrogenated oils but im not sure about that.

 

[Vulcan59]

Hi abstract,

Do a Search for canola and safflower oil and you will see quite a few articles all of which suggest that both these oils should be avoided. Here is one to get you started. :)

 

[abstract]

There's always one more thing isn't there???!!! ;)

Thanks vulcan, i will give that a read.

 

[Oompaloompa]

This is great! Ive been thinking of doing some type of fasting Ive just not decided on which one. Reading through these posts has encouraged me to start out with just one day.

 

[Beau]

I buy the Ryza brand name rice milk. Doesn't have any of those evil oils in it. It is in the same place as regular milk in the grocery store.

 

[mkrnhr]

I don't cook, and the only thing I prepare for myself for months now is the following "recipe":
I heat water, put integral rice in it, then when close to be ready i put some garlic in. Then when I serve on a plate i add some olive oil. When I do it for a few days I feel great and energized.
It sounds weird but I tend to like its taste.
Can it be considered healthy enough for a beginning of a diet?

 

[shijing]

Just wanted to say that I started a brown rice fast yesterday -- I intended to start in the morning, but during dinner when I was cooking for the rest of my family, I forgot myself and tasted the broccoli to see if it was done or not, so I guess I have to technically list my start-point as yesterday evening. I have been putting rice milk over it in the morning, adding a bit of furikake during the other meals, and otherwise just take my Emergen-C with supplements in the morning.

Oh, and speaking of rice milk:

Do a Search for canola and safflower oil and you will see quite a few articles all of which suggest that both these oils should be avoided. Here is one to get you started. :)

There's always one more thing isn't there???!!! ;)

I just realized that I use the same rice milk that abstract described, and just checked the ingredients -- sure enough! I had the same reaction too -- just when I thought I had a completely safe product! I even bought it in bulk, so I will have to be patient while I get through this batch and then move to a brand that doesn't include those oils.

I buy the Ryza brand name rice milk. Doesn't have any of those evil oils in it. It is in the same place as regular milk in the grocery store.

Thanks for this advice, Heimdallr, and I will look for it.

 

[Laura]

Just a note that I found that eating nothing but brown rice wasn't what my body likes. My body likes vegetables and meat.