The rice you eat is worse than sugary drinksThe health authorities have identified one of their top concerns as they wage war on diabetes: white rice. It is even more potent than sweet soda drinks in causing the disease.
Sharing his battle plan to reduce the risk of diabetes, Health Promotion Board chief executive Zee Yoong Kang said that obesity and sugary drinks are the major causes of the condition in the West.
But Asians are more predisposed to diabetes than Caucasians, so people do not have to be obese to be at risk. Starchy white rice can overload their bodies with blood sugar and heighten their risk of diabetes.
Mr Zee is armed with data. A meta- analysis of four major studies, involving more than 350,000 people followed for four to 20 years, by the Harvard School of Public Health - published in the British Medical Journal - threw up some sobering findings.
One, it showed each plate of white rice eaten in a day - on a regular basis - raises the risk of diabetes by 11 per cent in the overall population.
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South Indians odissa & Bengali people main intake is rice. Do you mean thease people should not take rice. Their staple food is rice. Then why wheat eating people getting diabitics, I wont agree with findings
All grains not only rice but also wheat jowar ragi barley etc have more than 70-80 % of carbs So for diabetic person it will spikes bloodsucker with hug amount. So grains should be avoided by the diabetic person. or to be consumed very lower level that is only cooked rice about 30 gms and chapati very small1/2 portion only If you consuma Karabath (UPAMA ) you may prepared only 40 gms of suji ( RABA ) and add flenty of vegetables and consume it 1/2 portion at a time.
Not only grains butalso packed food and diabetic food recently available in market as diabetic friendly all are having more carbs and other bad ingredients which lost our health.
The articles refer only rice ? why not packedfood diabetic friendly foold fast food packets and wheat oats etc and also cold drinks like sprite pepsi thumsup miranda etc
My numbers improved well, when I reduced the White rice by 80% and compensated by other non-rice and fat items.
Currently my TC and TG are bad, due to other reasons such as too many functions, festivals, travels etc etc.
However, I am a strong believer (practical) of the theory
"BS goes up for White Rice Intake'.
Well, I moved to Long Wheat Mash regimen and I see the daily numbers are getting better.
I can provide my inputs on my LIPIDs including A1C after a month or so .
Good luck to all,
Grateful to all for their valuable inputs.
hi there! you're likely to get as many opinions as there are members on the forum. The proper way to determine the status of white rice is to test it out for yourself.
[1] Get your glucometer ready. Record the initial reading.
[2] Eat a measured amount of cooked plain rice - don't add anything.
[3] Two hours later, take another reading and see. It's that simple.
I once corresponded with an Indian gentleman living in USA [T2DM] who told me that he would taking BG readings many times a day. It was for him a highly educational experience. He discovered that a number of foods would spike his BG - foods he never suspected to react in this way, and there were others that had neutral or little effect.
Eventually, and very interestingly, he found his own miracle cure: red-skinned apples! Whenever he eats that, his BG level would normalize. No, red apples have no such effect on me. See? Each person's condition behaves differently. So don't you dare start generalizing your own experience, findings and success story that applies to you, to also include everyone too.
If you do, that would be like mimicking a few of our rather naive forum members - for they luv to do this, claiming that their self-branded methods will, in the same way, work categorically for everyone too, and so qualifies as the only acceptable cure and answer. Worse, they would go as far as browbeating and bullying others into following them as well. Their MO consists of monopolizing their turf like some political freak. Some mothers are born with them, what to do?
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Hi again. I forgot to add this kicker in the above tale about that Indian gentleman. He became so enamored with his success founded on the red-skinned apples that he decided to contact some relevant authorities ... but not a single party was interested to further investigate beyond initial hearing of his story. And when he persuaded me to try it out, he became quite incredulous on learning that it didn't work on me.
I had to stop corresponding with him then as his attitude soon became insufferable ...
If no hard empirical evidence, esp. peer-reviewed, is submitted for scientific consideration, it is unlikely to succeed in generating interest in the scientific community. If the study/experimentation is double blinded and involved clinical trials, its worthiness for further study will of course go up.
HI Patliputra, Yes white rice does increase the level of blood sugar so avoid eating white rice but if you cannot avoid rice better boil the rice with extra water filter out starch and have it with curry etc. I am sure your sugar may not rise sometimes it may reduce also. But never try blindly alway take help of glucometer take readings before and two hours after lunch or dinner.
I am also taking boiled rice since a year( 1 cup boiled HMT rice, taste like normal HMT rice available in Chhatisgarh) at lunch with sambhar or dal and after taking this rice the PP sugar never goes above 150.
patliputra Have you tried parboiled rice, esp. parboiled basmati rice? I read that it takes a longer time for the body to turn it to glucose, and if cooled down after cooking it, the resistant starch (RS) increases, hence preventing BG spikes. The same with potatoes and some starchy foods. RS will increase further if you keep the rice in the fridge. You can reboil gently or fry the rice to reheat. This does not reduce the RS. RS is a hot topic these days as it functions as a prebiotic by increasing the butyric acid, the same health-giving bio-substance found in butter and ghee. It's been called an "ancient controller of metabolism", and its low level status has been linked with T2DM.
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