Can Brown Rice Decrease Diabetes Risk?
A new study shows a greater risk of type II diabetes in men and women who eat white rice compared to those who do not.
Surprisingly, the study also found a reduced risk of type II diabetes in those who eat brown rice compared to those who do not regularly eat rice. 
Specifically, the risk of diabetes increased with five or more servings of rice per week; and the risk of diabetes was reduced with consumption of two or more servings of brown rice per week. Researchers estimated that replacing just one third of a daily serving of white rice with an equal amount of brown rice would decrease type II diabetes risk by 16 percent; replacing one third of the white rice with other whole grains such as barley or whole wheat could decrease the risk by 36 percent.
This brief abstract, or summary, was released June 14, 2010 by the Archives of Internal Medicine; the full-text version of the study is available with journal subscription at: http://bit.ly/cT5kvt.
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