I'm just done eating my dinner, white rice and sardines! Being a Filipino the most important food in the table every meal is white rice. Everyday meal is not complete without the big servings of rice, of course with other dish meals that we called viand. After I ate, I logged on to my computer and I noticed this online news about white rice link seen with type 2 diabetes in
yahoo Philippines page. I do heard that before when I was still in the Philippines and some people that was scared to be diabetic switched to cooking and eating corn grains every meals than continue the white rice. I myself like the rice better than corn but my mother do sometimes just buy corns because it's cheaper and said healthier. I copy and pasted below the yahoo news that I just read :
Health researchers said on Thursday they had found a troubling
link between higher consumption of rice and Type 2 diabetes, a disease that in some countries is
becoming an epidemic.
Further work is need to probe the apparent association and diets that are notoriously high
in sugar and fats should remain on the no-go list, they cautioned.
"What we've found is white
rice is likely to increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes, especially at
high consumption levels such as
in Asian populations," Qi Sun
of the Harvard School of Public
Health told AFP.
"But at the same time people should pay close attention to the other things
they eat.
"It's very important to address not just a single food but the whole pattern
of consumption."
In the British Medical
Journal (BMJ), Sun's team said the link emerged from an analysis of four
previously published studies, carried out in China, Japan, Australia and the
United States.
These studies followed 350,000 people over a timescale from four to 22 years.
More than 13,000 people developed Type 2 diabetes.
In the studies carried out in China and Japan, those who ate most rice were
55 percent likelier to develop the disease than those who ate least. In the
United States and Australia, where consumption of rice is far lower, the
difference was 12 percent.
Participants in the two Asian countries ate three or four servings of rice a
day on average, compared to just one or two servings a week in the Western
countries.
White rice is the dominant
form of rice eaten in the world. Machines produce its polished look by hulling
and milling, leaving a grain that is predominantly starch.
Brown rice, by contrast, has more fibre, magnesium and vitamins, and a lower
"glycaemic index," a measurement of sugar content, than white rice.
Sun said the study did have limitations, including full details about what
the volunteers ate in addition to rice.
"I don't think I can put forward a 100-percent confirmed case, given that
this is a meta-analysis of four original studies," he said.
"But I see a consistency across these studies, and there is biological
plausibility that supports the association between white rice consumption and
diabetes."
He added: "More trial data are needed to corroborate or refute our
observations."
Diabetes affects nearly 350 million adults worldwide, according to the US
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Diet is only one factor in Type 2 diabetes, a complex disease that involves
high levels of blood sugar that cannot be processed by the hormone insulin.
Obesity and lack of exercise are also cited as culprits.
I love rice and will still continue to eat it! Hope you all learn about what i shared to you guys and watch your diet!
