Is Brown Rice Better For You Than White Rice

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What are your preferences regarding eating rice do you normally have white rice or have you thought about trying brown rice? If you haven’t then read on because this particular post will be of interest to you, especially if you want to stop yourself from getting diabetes or becoming prediabetic.

If you have more than two servings of white rice per week and switch this to brown rice instead you may there increase your risk of contracting type two diabetes by a factor of 16 percent which is quite substantial for a simple dietary change.

When white rice is made the outer shell is discarded when you keep the outer shell then you have brown rice so by keeping the discarded layer you keep the goodness of the rice.

The benefits of this are it contains insoluble fibre this will cause a dampening effect on your overall sugar levels keeping them more stable and stop sugar spikes. When you eat white rice it gets absorbed into your bloodstream far quicker in comparison to brown rice.

The main reason for this is white rice has a high glycemic index in comparison to brown rice, in a study which was conducted, which took data from 200,000 healthcare professionals and nurses. Five percent of those already had type 2 diabetes, this particular measurement went on for between 14 and 22 years.

For those people who had five servings of white rice per week they were said as having a 17 percent more chance of contracting diabetes where as people who ate brown rice at least two times a week had a 11 percent lesser chance of contracting diabetes. However, there is no need to worry if you do eat white rice because as one of the researchers stated this ,because brown rice is more nutritious than white rice it doesn’t necessarily mean that white rice will make you contract diabetes.

Overall brown rice is more nutritious but more than anything this highlights the importance of living a healthy lifestyle with a varied eating plan. Also it was noted from the study that the people who ate brown rice had an overall healthier lifestyle, and were very active and had no history of diabetes within their families.

Source http://news.health.com

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How Water Helps You Lose Weight

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at 12:24 pm and is filed under Featured. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

This guest post is contributed by Maryanne Osberg, who writes on the topic of RN to MSN Online.

We all know that water sustains life, but how many of us know the many ways that it helps you lose weight as well? It’s a truly miraculous liquid in many ways – not only would we be dead without water, we would also invite disease and illness into our lives.

Exercise and diet are important aspects of weight loss no doubt, but the secret to really easy and effective weight loss is water. If you want to know how water helps you lose weight, read on:

When you drink a few glasses of water before a meal, you tend to eat less because you feel full sooner. Water acts as an appetite suppressor and helps you to reduce the amount you consume during every meal. Repeat this for all your meals and your total calorific count for the day reduces by a large number, thus enabling you to lose weight.When your body is dehydrated be even 1 percent, your metabolism tends to drop significantly. This means your body burns fewer calories than it should normally, so you don’t lose weight as fast as you should. Drinking enough water helps you prevent dehydration and consequently a drop in metabolism.When you’re not really hungry but just feel the need to snack, a few glasses of water can help get rid of those cravings and prevent you from adding to your daily calorific count.Foods that are made up mostly of water help in your weight loss efforts because they not only ensure that you feel full, but also bring down your total calorie count – soups, vegetables and fruits are examples of foods that are great for people looking to lose weight on a healthy diet. They provide your body with adequate nutrients and simulate the feeling of fullness, yet don’t add pounds to your frame.When you don’t drink enough water, your kidneys don’t function properly. When this happens, your liver tends to do part of the work that the kidneys do, and because of this, fat is not metabolized effectively in your body. The liver’s function is to metabolize fat, but when it has to assist in kidney function as well, it fails to do its job adequately, and you tend to put on weight. When fat is not metabolized effectively, it tends to get stored in various parts of your body, even when you eat only the bare minimum.The amount of water each person should drink varies according to local climate conditions and their lifestyles  if you live in hot and humid places, you will need more water than in cold and dry areas. If you tend to sweat a lot, you need to replace the fluid you’ve lost with water. In general, it’s not a good sign to feel thirsty; that in itself is a sign of dehydration. So drink a glass of water every hour, it should keep your body healthy and hydrated, and help you lose weight in no time too.

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