There was this talk about brown rice last weekend with some in-laws. One said that she bought a sack of brown rice after reading that it is healthy to eat than the usual white rice. But after cooking the brown rice, her family issued a threat that they will not eat the next meal if brown rice is served. Another mentioned the brown sugar which, like the brown rice, is touted to be a healthy alternative for the refined white sugar. Come to think of it, if those brown thing are really the healthy food for us, why do they sell the white variety? I'm just wondering if that brown thing is just a hype or real.
My understanding is that brown rice is healthy to eat. It is not a refined and nutritionless as white rice. When eating brown rice, the body's insulin response is much slower than the insulin response to white rice. Of course, if one is a diabetic all starchy carbs must be kept at a minimum. Brown sugar? It is not healthy. Doesn't matter if sugar is white or brown, the body will respond quickly with lots of insulin which keeps Americans overweight.
I think brown rice is reasonably healthy, but I was reading somewhere where all rice contains arsenic in it, I think that white rice has the most. I don't really make brown rice that often because it takes so long to cook. In fact, I don't eat rice very often. I would say maybe once every two weeks...unless I happen to have a dish that has a great deal of rice in it, such as a Jambayla or Red Beans and rice,,,or something of that nature, than obviously I will eat it more often.
Brown rice and white rice they are the same except the white rice has the outside layer removed usually call polishing. This is where most of the vitamins are the disease Pellagra was caused by removing the vitamins [B3 niacin] out of the food [white rice]. As far as arsenic goes we need a trace in our bodies. The Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York arsenic trioxide can, at doses of .02 to .06mg put 11 of 12 acute promyelocytic leukemia patients into remission after only 30 days of supplementation. In the original study in China they had patience still alive after 10 years.