Diabetes: What’s rice got to do with it?
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NWHF Staff
| Posted on: June 21st, 2010
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Did You Know?
A recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine makes a direct connection between the consumption of white v. brown rice and the risk of developing diabetes.
Those who eat white rice on a regular basis — five or more times a week — are almost 20 percent more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes than those who eat it less than once a month.
Community Health Priorities focuses on systemic and policy influences on health - recognizing that communication at the individual level is not enough.
Is there systemic issue at play here?
One question we might ask is can - and should - cultures that rely so much on white rice in their every day cuisine, begin the process of re-discovering the unprocessed form of this important grain?
But really, more than anything else, this post is a convenient way to highlight 13-year-old Kasey Truax’s second place photo in the 2010 CHP Youth Photo Contest.
Her photo - pictured here - is titled “Heart Healthy Choices.”
Turns out she could have just as easily called it “Diabetes Prevention Choices.”
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