Does it matter what carbs i eat while bulking?

[d!abolic]

I currently eat loads of white rice, potatoes, pasta, wholewheat bread and so on. Pretty much everything with the exception of white bread and such. Is this acceptable?

[AlexPSU]

White rice and pasta are almost identical to white bread. Choose quality carbohydrates that are low on the glycemic index as they won't spike your insulin as much as higher G.I. foods.

[derekmac]

Brown rice, yams, sweet potatoes, and veggies are examples of good carbs; while bulking keep high GI carbs to a minimum. This means minimizing processed carbs like junk food, white bread, and anything containing high-fructose corn syrup.

[sawastea]

Originally posted by derekmac
Brown rice, yams, sweet potatoes, and veggies are examples of good carbs; while bulking keep high GI carbs to a minimum. This means minimizing processed carbs like junk food, white bread, and anything containing high-fructose corn syrup.

Originally posted by AlexPSU
White rice and pasta are almost identical to white bread. Choose quality carbohydrates that are low on the glycemic index as they won't spike your insulin as much as higher G.I. foods.

Very well said

I, personally, am a fan of brown rice with a chicken breast and broccoli as my PWO meal, with SALSA

[Patfan]

bump on the other answers. Make sure your carbs are coming from the foods mentioned above, and not from cartons of fruit juice!

[AlexPSU]

Originally posted by sawastea
Very well said

I, personally, am a fan of brown rice with a chicken breast and broccoli as my PWO meal, with SALSA

I do brown rice, sliced grilled chicken, spinach and tomato sauce.... awesome!

[d!abolic]

What will happen if i continue eating the way i do now? I still follow a strict diet with very high carb/protein intake and very low fat. But i eat white rice and pasta, which are high-GI carbs. I can't eat 5 plates of brown rice / sweet potatoes a day, that's insane!

[arbit]

All rice is not equal. Some varieties of white rice have pretty good GI.

[arbit]

http://www.bodyforlife2.com/glycemic.htm

According to this:
http://www.bodyforlife2.com/glycemic.htm

brown rice is 55, white is 58

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/dgarneau/health3f.htm


http://www.lowglycemicdiet.com/ricegi.html

Why bother with brown rice?

[arbit]

http://www.elitefitness.com/ubb/Foru...00/000730.html

Excerpt:

Rice and Potatoes
Rice and potatoes are some of the foods most tested for their glycemic indexes. They are important both because most of us tend to eat a lot of rice and potatoes and because they can have a high glycemic index. Professor Brand-Miller reports the results of 49 studies of rice and 24 studies of potatoes. The results for rice ranged all the way from 54 to 132 and for potatoes from 67 to 158.
What could possibly cause such tremendous variation? According to Professor Brand-Miller, for rice one of the most important considerations is the ratio of amylose to amylopectin. She says that "the only whole (intact) grain food with a high G.I. factor is low amylose rice, such as Calrose rice...However, some varieties of rice (Basmati, a long grain fragrant rice, and Doongara, a new Australian variety of rice [which is not available in the United States] have intermediate G.I. factors because they have a higher amylose content than normal rice."
Wallace Yokoyama, a research chemist working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Albany, California, gave me a comprehensive explanation. There are, says this noted rice specialist, four types of rice: long-grain, medium-grain, short-grain, and sweet rice. Sweet rice is also known as sticky or waxy rice. It makes the best sauces and gravies, and is usually the rice used in Asian restaurants. Sweet rice has no amylose, Yokoyama says. In other words, it is the rice that has the highest glycemic index. The three other types of rice have lower glycemic indexes. Among these types, long-grain rice has the highest amylose content and short-grain the lowest.
Of course, each of these three types of rice may be brown or white. Brown rice has a lower glycemic index than white rice, everything else being equal. Therefore brown long-grain rice-or if you can find it-brown Basmati rice-will probably be your best best for a rice with a lower glycemic index. White Basmati rice had a glycemic index of 83 in one study. Brown Basmati rice can be expected to have a somewhat lower index, but we don't know precisely what it is, because the studies haven't been done yet.

[d!abolic]

So what's the lowdown? Am i gonna get fat as hell if i continue eating white rice, potatoes and pasta, even though i stay within my daily carb limit?

[AlexPSU]

Originally posted by d!abolic
So what's the lowdown? Am i gonna get fat as hell if i continue eating white rice, potatoes and pasta, even though i stay within my daily carb limit?

You're not going to get fat as hell, as that has to do with your totals. Hell, you'll probably gain just as much muscle either way... however you can end up getting type II diabeties and wind up having other insulin-related health problems. Lately I've been much more concerned with health than I have been with muscle building. That being said I believe that muscle and health go hand in hand. Looking good doesn't always mean being healthy as most professional bodybuilders bill of health would show.

If you plan on keeping up with the high G.I. carbs look into supplementing with R-ALA.