I love rice but drink tea/coffee without sugar

You thought rice was the light food to eat which is easily digestible. However, note the following:

A bowl of rice is digested to become ten spoons of sugar. It does not matter whether you eat white or brown rice, etc. Moreover, normal rice has no fibre.
Rice cannot be digested before it is thoroughly cooked. However, when thoroughly cooked, it becomes sugar and spikes circulating blood sugar within half an hour - almost as quickly as it would if you took a sugar candy. Rice is very low in the "rainbow of anti-oxidants"

This complete anti-oxidant rainbow is necessary for the effective and safe utilisation of sugar. Fruits come with a sugar called fructose. However, they are not empty calories as the fruit is packed with a whole host of other nutrients that help its proper assimilation and digestion.

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