Can Brown Rice Lower Diabetes Risk?
Filed in archive Developments , Diet , News on February 12, 2008
I live in a rice-eating country. Rice is our staple food like potato it is to others. I've worked in rice research for 10 years. Thus I know rice a lot. I sort-of live, eat and breath it. So I also know the brown rice.
What so special about brown rice? Only the last step in the process of producing brown rice separates it from the more common white rice.

According to WHFoods:
The process that produces brown rice removes only the outermost layer, the hull, of the rice kernel and is the least damaging to its nutritional value. The complete milling and polishing that converts brown rice into white rice destroys 67% of the vitamin B3, 80% of the vitamin B1, 90% of the vitamin B6, half of the manganese, half of the phosphorus, 60% of the iron, and all of the dietary fiber and essential fatty acids. Fully milled and polished white rice is required to be "enriched" with vitamins B1, B3 and iron.
Thus, making brown contain more nutrients than its white counterpart.
Today, I found the following from Times of India, stating some anti-diabetes effect of including brown rice in your diet:
A simple change in your diet can now lower your cholesterol level and protect you against cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome and breast and colon cancer.
Doctors, nutritionists and dieticians are now increasingly recommending brown rice as an excellent source of all-round nutrition. Experts say the difference between brown rice and the more popular white rice is not just the colour.
White rice actually lacks the necessary quantities of over a dozen important nutrients, including vitamin E, thiamin, niacin, vitamin B1, B3, B6, folacin, potassium, magnesium and iron.
Add commercialism to the nutritional value, i bet that brown rice is more expensive in your local supermarket than the ordinary white ones. To think that brown rice is not even fortified. But then maybe removing only the outermost layer of a rice grain could be more labor-intensive. ;-)
If you want to look past that and just look at the nutritional value (in this case lowering the risk of developing diabetes), then grab that brown rice bag immediately the moment you make inside the supermarket.
Doctors, nutritionists and dieticians are now increasingly recommending brown rice as an excellent source of all-round nutrition. Experts say the difference between brown rice and the more popular white rice is not just the colour.
White rice actually lacks the necessary quantities of over a dozen important nutrients, including vitamin E, thiamin, niacin, vitamin B1, B3, B6, folacin, potassium, magnesium and iron.
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Response from:
Timochin
(05/23/08 9:21pm)
We would like to explore distribution in Saudi Arabia.
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kai
(06/30/08 7:29am)
not so in-depth thread in a way
brown rice is nice
brown rice is nice
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mark leo cariaso
(07/19/08 5:34pm)
can brown rice actually lower the risk of diabetes?
how come that it can cure or less the glucose level of diabetic people?
we are having now a research proposal entitle "ACCEPTABILITY FOR BROWN RICE AS A THERAPEUTIC FIBER FOR diabetes mellitus".
how come that it can cure or less the glucose level of diabetic people?
we are having now a research proposal entitle "ACCEPTABILITY FOR BROWN RICE AS A THERAPEUTIC FIBER FOR diabetes mellitus".
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Justin
(09/05/08 10:32am)
Hi, I bought a product made from brown rice, long grain rice & fragrant rice, it was made into a product called a alpha-glucan, or polysaccharide peptide, what is this ? I took the product for 30 days, and started having low blood sugars, I drank all the juices and soda pop I could find to keep my blood sugars up to a normal level, I was taken to the hospital in the third day of the fifth week. The doctor told me he reduced my insulin 3 points and in the morning reduced it again one point because of a morning blood sugar of 57. I usually run high in the morning 150 to 200. For the next two weeks I had morning reading of 49 to 67 and continued to lower the insulin one unit each day. I lower my insulin intake from 34 to 14 units and feel better than I have felt in years. I wander if I would buy more of this product if it could lower it more ? Has anyone else heard of this happening ?
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ajq
(06/11/09 3:21am)
i need info !
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Justin Jensen
(10/01/09 10:24am)
I product I was taking the rice powder, was made by a company called Conklin, but it is very high priced. I have taked to a Doctor who says brown rice bran may work the same. justinjensen0@gmail.com
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Manuel Gambini
(11/08/09 1:32am)
The White rice rocket my levels of sugar (194), with the brown rice is OK! only take care with what you mix , No shrimp ! I don't know why?
