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Brown rice with chicken: If you tend to exercise after lunch or dinner, avoid rich foods and have a simple dish of brown rice with chicken or tofu. It's a bland meal that sits well and provides a good amount of carbs and protein, says Meine.
Diabetics â and everyone else â can benefit from switching from white to brown rice. Photo Credit Justin Skinner/iStock/Getty Images. Once you learn that you have diabetes, you start paying very close attention to everything you eat. Every choice you make has to promote and sustain your good health. According to the American Diabetes Association, your meals should include foods from each of six essential food groups: non-starchy vegetables, milk, fruit, meat and meat substitutes, fat, and grains and starchy vegetables. Yes, diabetics can eat rice.