Is It True That Eating Too Much Rice Can Cause Diabetes?

One of the dreaded disease by the people of Indonesia is diabetes. The number of communities affected by the disease is making quite a lot of myths about diabetes that is trusted by the community. One of these myths is diabetes can be caused by the habit of eating rice too much.

Rice And Diabetes

Considering rice is the staple food of the community land and quite a lot of people who consume rice in great numbers since it does require great energy for everyday activities, so this myth is certainly making its own concerns. Actually, if this myth is true medically?

A study was conducted to find out any link between the consumption of rice with diabetes in China. As information, like in Indonesia, the Chinese community also consume rice as a meal anyway. In addition, a study with the same theme is also done in Singapore. The result is, the myth that consume excessive rice can trigger diabetes turned out to be true it is.

According to health experts, consume too much rice did in fact can make blood sugar shot up significantly. If this is the case in the long run, the body may experience insulin resistance thus finally trigger diabetes.

Thus, what can we do to avoid diabetes remember rice is the staple food in our daily where quite a lot of communities who consider they have not eaten if we have not eaten rice? Health experts say that it's good we start regulating portion of rice that we consume every day. As information, the daily carbohydrate intake requirement is just 50-60 percent of the total daily food consumption.

Our daily carbohydrate source turns out to be not only comes from rice, instead of the sweet drinks, noodles, bread, biscuits, etc. Look at this, it's good we try to lower your intake of rice so as not to overload and compensate with vegetables that are rich in fiber so that we could feel full. With styling your diet more healthy and balanced nutrition levels, then we will be better in preventing diabetes.

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