Brown, Black, Purple and Red Unlike White on Rice
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2016-04-22

White rice is missing more than just fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Phytonutrients, such as gamma oryzanol, in brown rice may help explain the clinical benefits, and naturally pigmented rice varieties may be even healthier.

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Switching from white rice to brown rice enables overweight individuals to significantly reduce their weight, their waist size, their blood pressure, and the level of inflammation within their bodies. That sounds like it deserves a video, no? On its way! Stay tuned for Is it Worth Switching from White Rice to Brown? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-it-worth-switching-from-white-rice-to-brown) (It was actually supposed to go first but I made a mistake and messed up the order). 

In the meanwhile, enjoy some other rice videos:
• Alzheimer’s Disease: Grain Brain or Meathead? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/alzheimers-disease-grain-brain-or-meathead/)
• Kempner Rice Diet: Whipping Us Into Shape (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/kempner-rice-diet-whipping-us-into-shape/)
• If White Rice is Linked to Diabetes, What About China? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/if-white-rice-is-linked-to-diabetes-what-about-china/)
• Drugs and the Demise of the Rice Diet (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/drugs-and-the-demise-of-the-rice-diet/)
• Can Diabetic Retinopathy Be Reversed? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-diabetic-retinopathy-be-reversed/)
• High Blood Pressure May Be a Choice (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/high-blood-pressure-may-be-a-choice/)

Six years ago I did a video on Arsenic in Rice (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/arsenic-in-rice/). That definitely deserves an update. I’ll do another video or series of videos on that as well. Make sure you’re subscribed (http://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/), so you don’t miss it.

More on the potential wonders of the blue/black/purple anthocyanin pigments:
• Anti-Inflammatory Effects of Purple Potatoes (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-effects-of-purple-potatoes/)
• Dietary Treatments for Computer Eye Strain (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/dietary-treatments-for-computer-eye-strain/)
• How to Slow Brain Aging by Two Years (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-to-slow-brain-aging-by-two-years/)
• Anti-inflammatory Life is a Bowl of Cherries (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/anti-inflammatory-life-is-a-bowl-of-cherries/)

Have a question for Dr. Greger about this video? Leave it in the comment section at http://nutritionfacts.org/video/brown-black-purple-red-unlike-white-rice and he'll try to answer it!

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