A new study published in the journal BMJ raises concerns about eating too much white rice.
Researchers examined the results of 4 studies that spanned the globe to look at the number of times per day a participant ate white rice.
They then correlated it with the occurrence of development of type two diabetes. They found that the higher the number of servings of white rice per day, the greater occurrence of developing diabetes, even in people who were of moderate and healthy weights.
Similar results were seen when looking at consumption of other white carb foods such as bread, pasta, and potatoes.
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Does the white rice include paboiled rice?
Rice is the staple food of billions, particularly in Asia. Are you suggesting there is a pandemic of diabetes in these countries because of their (twice-daily) consumption of rice?
Don’t believe everything what newspaper said.Those are junky researches with junky sciences.
Everything being equal I would suggest that white rice produced in the USA
would be suspect to cause Diabetes II, as does genetically modified wheat,corn, soy, sugar and processed foods in general.
It has been finally published and in the news media that these are cause of
Diabetes, ADHD-ADD, cardio issues, gastro-intestenal issues and many “new”
symptoms.
Alberto’s question also occurred to me.
What about Asia including the Philipines? They eat lots of white rice and don’t have the diabetes epidemic the US does.
It looks like that is part of the picture rather the whole answer.
Wholegrain rice (not instant rice) – polished, unpolished or par-boiled rice has been the staple food for people in Asia for ages. If rice is that “bad”, Asians would be the highest sufferers of diabetes for a long long time – but this is not so until quite recently. Asians became more effluent and “educated” and started to eat more meat, use corn-oil (to avoid poly-saturated oils)instead of coconut oil and replaced coconut milk with dairy milk as advocated by western medicine. There’s a host of other foods like sugar, high fructose corn syrup that comes in soft drinks – juices, etc. Look into all these first. As people get richer, they become lazy and no longer eat wholesome food cooked at home. I believe this is a great contributor to our health problems today. Have a great day.
I agree with the various readers who pointed out that people in Asia eat white rice at every meal their whole life without becoming diabetics. This article is obviously written by someone with a strong Western-centric bias. Not very useful as health news!
I agree with all the previous comments. DO YOUR RESEARCH. The people in China and other Asian countries DO NOT have a problem with diabetes. It is the western civilization and it’s overprocessing of foods that is the problem.
I see,there are controversies about eating white rice and diabetes.I am looking for the right answer.
Worrisome revelation. White rice is a staple food in Nigeria. Does it mean most people living there are diabetic? Ndu