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Article: FOCUS@HEALTH; Brown rice is healthier vs. popular white rice
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- Filipino Reporter
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- May 13, 2004
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Chua, Philip S.
Filipino Reporter
05-13-2004
BROWN rice: a healthier choice. The focus for this week's column.
Misinformed rice lovers eat white rice and consider brown rice as food for
the peasants, the poor, and for animals.
How very wrong they are! Modern day science and health food experts have
proven that brown rice is far better and the healthier rice. Brown rice is
the most balanced of all cereal grains.
In 1897, it was discovered that eating white-rice caused beriberi, a
potentially fatal disease due to lack of thiamin (Vitamin B1), because this
essential vitamin was stripped out of the rice in the processing.
Since then, following governmental regulations, white rice was enriched
with the ...