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 Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 2:24 pm Post subject: More Beans, Less White Rice Tied to Less Diabetes |
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Among nearly 2,000 men and women, researchers found that people who regularly swapped a serving of white rice for one of beans had a 35 percent lower chance of showing symptoms that are usually precursors to diabetes.
"Rice is very easily converted into sugar by the body. It's very highly processed, it's pure starch and starch is a long chain of glucose," said Frank Hu, a professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, who was part of the study team.
"Beans compared with rice contain much more fiber, certainly more protein and they typically have a lower glycemic index�meaning they induce much lower insulin responses," he told Reuters Health. |
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/09/02/more-beans-less-white-rice-tied-to-less-diabetes/?&test=diabetes
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Although rice may be a larger part of diets outside the U.S., the findings have important implications in this country, Hu said. Americans are consuming more rice than ever, up from 9.5 pounds per person in 1980 to 21 pounds per person in 2008, government figures show.
Consumption of dry beans is markedly lower, at about seven pounds a year per person,according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
That's a bad trend, said Hu, especially if people are eating white rice rather than brown rice. From the body's perspective, a serving of white rice "is like eating a candy bar - the fiber and other nutrients are stripped away," said Hu, who added that the trend "will have long-term metabolic effects." |
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