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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
New research has found that ?eating white rice could raise your risk of type 2 diabetes? according to the Daily Mail.
The starch-rich staple can potentially release high amounts of sugar into the blood when digested, and so researchers have previously speculated that it may contribute towards type 2 diabetes, a condition where the body finds it difficult to regulate blood sugar.
In this new research, scientists examined the issue by pulling together data from four previous studies that had examined over 350,000 participants. Across the four studies 4% of participants developed diabetes, and greater rice intake was associated with higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. This link was evident when researchers separately analysed two of the studies conducted in Asian participants who ate four portions of white rice a day on average, but no such link was found in the two studies in Western populations.
Although the review has found an association, it cannot prove that white rice itself directly causes type 2 diabetes, as there are many other factors that could affect the risk of developing the condition (such as physical activity, alcohol and obesity). The four individual varied in the factors they accounted for.
http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/health/rice-diabetes-risk-overstated-1-4357569
The starch-rich staple can potentially release high amounts of sugar into the blood when digested, and so researchers have previously speculated that it may contribute towards type 2 diabetes, a condition where the body finds it difficult to regulate blood sugar.
In this new research, scientists examined the issue by pulling together data from four previous studies that had examined over 350,000 participants. Across the four studies 4% of participants developed diabetes, and greater rice intake was associated with higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. This link was evident when researchers separately analysed two of the studies conducted in Asian participants who ate four portions of white rice a day on average, but no such link was found in the two studies in Western populations.
Although the review has found an association, it cannot prove that white rice itself directly causes type 2 diabetes, as there are many other factors that could affect the risk of developing the condition (such as physical activity, alcohol and obesity). The four individual varied in the factors they accounted for.
http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/health/rice-diabetes-risk-overstated-1-4357569