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> Try to drink plain water with sugar (not tee/coffee or anything else that bring own taste). It is just impossible to drink too much of it This is blatantly n

• fpoling 11y ago
  One have to specifically drink plain water with table sugar or fructose - anything else reverses the effects, search the Shangri-La diet for details.
  • dpark 11y ago
    Sugar water tastes horrible. I'd have to be literally starving before I'd choose sugar water over plain water. This doesn't mean that it's impossible to overconsume. It just means that no one wants to consume this. I'd probably lose weight drinking sugar water because it would kill my appetite by inducing nausea. The same applies to your starch comment. Yeah, it's hard to overconsume plain rice if you eat it with no sauce and no salt. Not because it's better for you, but because it's unpleasant. It'd also be hard to overconsume pure lard if that were all you could eat. It'd get old immediately and you'd eat enough to survive and not much more because it's so unpleasant.
    • fpoling 11y ago
      With no negative impacts on health one can eat just rice or potatoes with salt or herbs as one please for months with no weight gain unless one is rather lean. That shows that there is food where body feedback loop works nicely preventing over-consumption without any conscious limits on the amount of food.
      • Mz 11y ago
        This is not true. If you only eat potatoes, you will wind up deficient in B vitamins. It doesn't take much to make potatoes a good basis for a diet. This is why the Irish Potato Famine was a big deal: Large families with small farms were mostly growing potatoes to keep everyone fed. But, no, you cannot live on potatoes alone with just salt or herbs without ending up deficient.
      • dpark 11y ago
        "No negative impacts on health" is a bold claim. If you eat nothing but rice (with salt[1] and herbs) for months, you'll end up with a number of vitamin deficiencies. You'll also end up critically deficient in certain amino acids eventually, because rice does not provide a complete protein profile. Weight is not the only factor in overall health. I'll point out that Atkins makes similar claims for a fat-heavy diet. In essence, they claim that if you cut carbs entirely, you can eat as much as you want. In reality, people on Atkins tend to just eat less because the diet gets so monotonous. [1] I misread initially and thought you said no salt. Sorry about the confusion there.
        • fpoling 11y ago
          Rice is amino-deficient only for rats, it has all 8 essential for human amino-acids. But I should wrote "brown unpolished rice" as that contains much more minerals.
          • dpark 11y ago
            > Rice is a good source of protein and a staple food in many parts of the world, but it is not a complete protein: it does not contain all of the essential amino acids in sufficient amounts for good health, and should be combined with other sources of protein, such as nuts, seeds, beans, fish, or meat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice
            • fpoling 11y ago
              I wrote that too quickly. Brown rice has sufficient variety of protein so a person can survive on diet of rice and juices for many months, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_diet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice_diet
              • dpark 11y ago
                Every time you add another comment you modify the proposed diet.... But anyway, key points on the rice diet: > patients were hospitalized for several weeks at the beginning of treatment. This was a diet specifically created for people who were otherwise going to die. It was never promoted as a healthy diet for normal individuals. > white rice, sugar, fruit, fruit juices, vitamins and iron So not just rice. Not just rice and fruit juice. But also whole fruit plus vitamins and iron to account for the fact that just eating rice will kill you. Also, not brown rice at all. You're just pulling in random stuff to try to support your wild claims. > Kempner described his diet as "a monotonous and tasteless diet which would never become popular.... Kempner's only defense of its use was the fact that “it works,” and that the diet was preferable to the alternative of certain death" Sounds like a great endorsement of the diet from its creator.
• mrob 11y ago
  Those include flavorings and acids. Plain sugar in water tastes much worse.