18 Aug, 2007
If you’re going to eat rice- make it brown
Posted by: healthnut In: Daily Dieting Diary
Due to importance of keeping food “fresh” while staying in the shelves, many of the groceries we buy become either bad for us (like the use of hydrogenated oil and high fructose corn syrup) or bereft of its original nutrients.
Rice is one of the most nutritious foods on the planet to which this injustice has been done to. Currently, most of the rice available is polished white rice- it is rice whose hull has been removed, along with the germ layer and essential fats. So while brown rice (only the hull has been removed), is rich in anti-oxidants (one cup gives you 88% of the daily value for manganese), lowers cholesterol leves (essential fats is good fats as proven in a research by Lousiana State University), is abundant in the phytonutrient- plant lignans (protects against breast and hormone-dependent cancers), and keeps cancer-causing chemicals from lining the colonby acting as a cleaner (fiber), white rice on the other hand, just makes us put on weight.
