Rice.
Eat rice with chop-sticks and not with spoon.
Rice is an energy-prone staple. Every grain of rice has to
be chewed and allowed to melt in the mouth with saliva.
Rice is the seed of the plant oriza sativa.
As a cereal grain, it is the staple food for a large part of people.
The present day rice we eat, is extra polished and all
its nutrious elements seem to go away with the decortications
by removing the bark and peel off and polish it to look
thin and bright.
The rice our ancestors ate was coarse rice and brown rice.
People who eat brown rice or coarse rice seem to have a lower
risk of developing diabetes than those who eat polished rice.
According to a world wide survey, analysing two hundred thousand
individuals over a period of 22 years revealed that eating refined
Rice was associated with type 2 diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes is characterised by a high blood sugar level
caused by the body’s inability to process sugar properly and
is often linked to obesity and poor diet. The illness can sometimes
be controlled through diet and exercise but may require drugs.
We have to pay special attention to our carbo-hydrate intake,
and replace bright polished rice with whole coarse or brown rice.
Half of the carbohydrates come from whole grains and more people
now eat rice. Rice consumption world-wide has shot up three-fold.
The present day rice is stripped off its fibre vitamins and minerals
in the refining process and is more likely to fuel an increase in the
blood sugar.
Out of the two hundred thousand cases, forty thousand men
and one hundred sixty thousand women in three long run studies,
twelve thousand of them developed type 2 diabetes.
Across all the studies having more white rice in the diet
was associated with a risk of type 2 diabetes.
The researchers concluded that one third of serving of white rice
daily say about fifty grams with the same amount of brown rice,
lowered risk of type 2 diabetes by twenty percent.
They further concluded that replacing white rice with whole grains
as a group reduced the risk by forty percent.
Eating more brown rice is a marker for healthier life style.
