Is It Worth Switching from White Rice to Brown?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2016-06-13

What happens when brown rice is put to the test in a randomized controlled crossover trial?

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Here’s the link to the video I cited: If White Rice is Linked to Diabetes, What About China? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/if-white-rice-is-linked-to-diabetes-what-about-china/).

More on the paella spice saffron:
• Saffron vs. Prozac (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/saffron-vs-prozac/)
• Saffron for the Treatment of PMS (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/saffron-for-the-treatment-of-pms/)
• Saffron for the Treatment of Alzheimer’s (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/saffron-for-the-treatment-of-alzheimers/)

If brown is good, what about all the even more colorful varieties? See Brown, Black, Purple and Red Unlike White on Rice (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/brown-lack-purple-and-red-unlike-white-on-rice).

For another interventional trial with whole grains, check out Whole Grains May Work As Well As Drugs (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/whole-grains-may-work-as-well-as-drugs/)

What about the so-called “rice diet”? See:
• Kempner Rice Diet: Whipping Us Into Shape (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/kempner-rice-diet-whipping-us-into-shape/)
• 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/)

How could the simple difference between whole and refined grains make such a difference? For a clue, you’ll have to wait until my next video Gut Dysbiosis - Starving Our Microbial Self (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/gut-dysbiosis-starving-our-microbial-self)

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

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