Secrets to Longevity by Dr Maoshing Ni #14 - Brown Rice for Long Life White rice begins as brown rice. Once the outer coating of rice bran is hulled off, however, not a lot of nutrients remain. A thousand years ago, Chinese physicians discovered that eating only refined white rice, devoid of the B vitamins of the bran, led to beriberi, a deficiency in the thiamine (B1). Modern research has identified a wealth of nutrients in the bran coating of brown rice. It is remarkably effective in lowering high blood sugar and therefore serves as an excellent food for diabetics. Rice bran contains more than seventy antioxidants, including the well know aging fighters vitamin E, glutathione peroxidase (GPx), superoxide dismutase (SOD), coenzyme Q-10 (CoQ-10), proanthocyanidins, and inositol hexaphosphate (IP6). It is no wonder that rural farmers in Asia, who eat brown rice because white rice to too expensive, live longer and develop fewer health problems than their city-dwelling counterparts, who eat mostly white rice. Find out more about nutrition and aging at qiintegratedhealth/
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:02:01 +0000
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