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Pros and cons of diets: rice diet
Last reviewed: 03.07.2025

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Rice or buckwheat diet?
The buckwheat diet is similar to the rice diet. Only here there is a mitigating circumstance: buckwheat can be washed down with a small amount of kefir. And the buckwheat diet is considered no less cleansing and balanced. Many people think that it, in principle, is no different from the rice diet.
The pros and cons of diets can be listed endlessly, but today we got acquainted with the rice method of losing weight. Lose weight with pleasure!
What is good about the rice diet?
- The figure will become more proportional and the body will gradually begin to cleanse itself.
- Rice cooks quickly and can be bought at any store.
- Rice is an inexpensive product and is available to everyone – this is a huge plus.
- You also won’t have to stand at the stove for a long time and think about how to diversify your diet - you don’t need anything, you have rice.
Pros and Cons of the Rice Diet: How to Eat Right
Rice, due to its irreplaceable and very high-quality absorbent properties, is useful for those people who want to lose weight. Otherwise, rice is similar to all other cereal products.
It is quite nutritious, contains vitamin B and has a rich taste.
The essence of the rice diet: you should exclude fatty foods, as well as spicy and salty ones. You also need to limit alcohol consumption, and it would be great to exclude it altogether.
Where there is a plus, there is a minus. Cons of the rice diet
There is an effective method of following a rice diet, but it is difficult and aggressive, not everyone could endure it. Every day for two weeks you will have to eat only soaked rice. To all this, it should be added that it cannot be cooked or add any spices or other components that your imagination finds tempting and necessary.
At lunch and dinner, you can eat a piece of fish, but only not fatty. You cannot add vegetable fat and animal fat to dishes, exclude salt.
If you decide to simplify your diet as much as possible and not adhere to such strictness, all you will achieve is a healthy and well-thought-out way of eating, nothing more.
Wild and unrefined rice is much healthier than regular parboiled rice. Parboiled rice has much less fiber and microelements. These things, which are very noticeable for the body, disappear when rice goes through the refining stage. Although wild and whole rice is more expensive than regular rice, it gives good results for weight loss and helps your stomach work properly.
If you eat carbohydrates, you will not be as full as from products in which protein prevails. Protein saturates our body for longer and is considered more nutritious, although carbohydrates are also needed for the normal functioning of metabolic processes. You will be able to organize the metabolic process if you adhere to the elementary system of undereating.
What is the role of rice in the diet, if you exclude salt, fats, alcohol, etc.? Roughly speaking, excluding such components of our products in itself leads to weight loss. So, it is not so important what cereals you will eat, be it buckwheat or millet. There is not much difference.