Could somebody live off rice?!

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Yes....

Im asian i eat rice every single day

Of course you can, but not for very long.

Humans need fats, carbs, and proteins to live, as well as an array of vitamins and mineral. Chocolate and chips will give you all the fats and sugars you need, plus a bunch more you don't need. Cheese also has sugar and fat and some protein in it. Rice has protein and carbs. But what about the rest?

The vitamins and minerals and also protein intake from this diet will be insufficient, so you will become malnourished and start to experience poor health. The symptoms will vary depending on which vitamin you become deficient in first. If you lack vitamin C you'll have scurvy, if you lack Vitamin B1 you'll get Beriberi, vitamin A and you'll go blind, plus many more nasty things await you. When you eat insufficient iron you'll suffer from anemia which causes heart failure when severe, magnesium deficiency will contribute to the weakness and fatigue you'll also get from anemia and vitamin deficiency but will aslo worsen your risk of diabetes which is also extremely high due to only eating fatty sugary foods like chips and chocolate (assuming you lived long enough for diabetes to become an issue).

So if you follow this diet you'll feel terrible, then you'll get sick, then you'll die.

Vegan biologist

They could, and in many countries do, live off of rice almost alone. Unfortunately, none of the foods above have many of the essential nutrients that we need to keep our bodies running and healthy, so while you could be eating a lot of food, you could still starve because of malnutrition.
But it could tide you over for a few months, so long as you didn't mind losing muscle mass, and constant constipation.

Chocolate, chips, and cheese are bad in large quantities. Actually eat food that provides health benefits, and aren't just full of fat and empty calories. Sure you can live off that stuff, but you'll eventually become sick and overweight. Rice is okay, but that isn't the only thing you should eat either.

Even people from third world countries can live off scrap. So... rice, what do you think?
I would bake the rice with mozzarella cheese and eat the chips and chocolate by itself though. =p

They wouldn't last long. They'd be so constipated they'd have to be taken to a hospital to be disimpacted.

No and No, we are not cows, we have to eat lots of different things to live healthy

you can live off of racoon

no way.. your size will be doubled in no time..
plus its not healthy..