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A 33-year-old male asked:
Is rice cake is good to loose weights?
3 doctor answers • 8 doctors weighed in
Dr. Shari Schabowskianswered
Specializes in Emergency Medicine
Rice Cakes: If eaten plain, rice cakes transiently fill you up with very few calories consumed.
It is a carb and may trigger hunger once eaten and an unwanted insulin surge so that anything you eat on will be quickly stored as fat.
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Dr. Michael Yapanswered
Nephrology and Dialysis 15 years experience
Probably not: Rice cakes, though somewhat low in calories (35-50), have quite a high glycemic index. This means that it can bring your blood sugar up more than other foods. This is not good for weight loss.
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Dr. William Coutts iianswered
Family Medicine 27 years experience
More protein: Rice is a carbohydrate and stimulates insulin production. In the presence of excess carbohydrate, the body stores the excess carbohydrate calories as fat. Try to eat 1 gram of protein for every 3 grams of carbohydrate each time that you eat.
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Last updated Nov 27, 2017
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