Article: Why Brown Rice is Healthier: Almost everyone eats white rice - but should they?


Hinduism Today
12-31-2001
Why Brown Rice is Healthier: Almost everyone eats white rice--but should
they?

CAN YOU GUESS WHICH HIGHLY processed and very popular food contributes to
diabetes and, if it wasn't fortified with vitamins by the manufacturer, a
deadly disease--beriberi? That's right. It's white rice.

The vast majority of rice eaters won't touch brown rice. They consider it
peasant's food or animal feed. Yet, the modern health food movement has
proven unprocessed grains, including brown rice, to be healthier than their
refined counterparts. Certainly, for thousands of years everyone ate brown
rice, for the complex processing equipment needed to make white rice was
invented only in 1860, in ...

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