"Gregory Morrow"
<gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote
in .net:

> Brown rice is cheap and also nutritionally dense, it leaves you
> feeling "full"...as opposed to white rice, which is one of the
> most nutrient - free foods around, it's a big zero nutrition -
> wise. It also immediately heightens your glycemic level, leaving
> you with that empty stomach syndrome a whiles after eating...

Hate to disagree with you, but that is a load of codswallop. I often
eat only a smallish bowl of white rice for breakfast (around 8AM) and
I am much less likely to feel hungry up to lunchtime than if I had
eggs and various meats for breakfast. I have tested this and it is
true.

People who eat rice as part of a recognized healthy diet
(Mediterraneans and Asians alike) eat WHITE rice exclusively.
Europeans don't know brown rice from a hole in the ground. Only Norf
Amerigovespuccilandian granola types eat brown rice, and there is
nothing wrong with that, but it isn't significantly better for you.

Comparable white rice and brown rice (long grain, short grain,
basmati) have the same nutrition (that contained in white rice), and
brown rice has added trace elements, and bran which is a NOT
nutritious inasmuch as you can't survive on bran alone, but is still
healthy for you. What it boils down to (as it were) is the
following:

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Besides the fiber found in the brown rice, the bran contains
nutrients like magnesium, manganese, and zinc. White rice has reduced
levels of these nutrients [...]

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http://nutrition.about.com/od/health..._white_ric.htm

In our house, we eat both brown and white rice, usually alternating
between the two: white short grain sushi rice (Maruyu brand) and
brown short grain organic Lundberg. After trying just about
everything on sale here in every type, we have found these to be the
best of white and best of brown.

P.S.: What you said might be true for Uncle Ben's rice in usual
round-eye portions (two tablespoons) but not the stuff we eat in the
quantities we eat it in.

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