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  4. I have a client who really needs to be upping her carbs and loves rice, but only in the form of all kinds of organic rice noodles. Are they just as agreeable as traditionally prepared rice or just another processed product that needs to be avoided?

I have a client who really needs to be upping her carbs and loves rice, but only in the form of all kinds of organic rice noodles. Are they just as agreeable as traditionally prepared rice or just another processed product that needs to be avoided?

Kelsey Marksteiner: Great question. Honestly, I would say that I think about that as just another processed food. Of course, it’s way better than if they were eating pasta all the time with wheat and everything. It’s obviously a much better choice. However, I would still in your own mind think about it as a processed food because it is. At the end of the day, it is a processed food. It’s taking a whole food, which is rice grains, and turning it into something different, so in that sense, it is processed. Is it a much better processed food than other options? Of course. If that’s all they’re willing to do, you have to just start there, and maybe eventually you can move them towards more whole food options, but if that’s where they need to start and you know that they desperately need to up their carb intake, it could be the lesser of two evils. If the only options are either they take out the rice noodles and don’t get enough carbs or eat rice noodles, which are a little bit processed, but at least they’re getting the carbs they need, I mean only you can really answer that, knowing the client. You kind of have to just pick between those two choices. Neither of them are perfect, of course, but if you can start someone somewhere and then work towards something better, that’s better than doing nothing at all, of course. You have to ask yourself those sorts of questions when you come into dilemmas like that with clients because there are always going to be dilemmas. There are always going to be restrictions that even just psychologically or just kind of how people are right now, where they’re at mentally, you need to start from there and work towards the end goal.

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