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Re: most of the people on the earth would have to starve
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Originally posted by fodus8
White rice has been the customary rice of China since the time of Confucius, about 500 BC. It has thus been the standard food in Asia for about 2,500 years. Like white flour, it is produced by milling and thus has lost some of the nutrients and fiber of brown rice. It has been enriched to partially correct this problem, but it has not been chemically altered in any way. White rice has not created obese and diabetic Asians. Few people in the US eat large quantities of rice.
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Not true. Milling has only occurred in this century in Asia. Prior to that time, they ate whole rice. In fact, B vitamins are/were made from the portion of the rice that is lost in milling. Before B vitamins were offered as a supplement for rice-eating people, pernicious anemia (caused by lack of B vitamins) was a plague.
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