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Arsenic in Rice - Yikes!
may be or may be not, because as far as i know there are no conclusive studies to show long term effect of prolonged exposure of non-toxic doses.
and i think if rice was that deadly china and india would not be nations with the highest population on earth.
still, rice eating americans do not drop dead like flies.
what i want to say is exactly what i wrote in sugar and sand thread: everything in moderation. rice is only one of the available staples. even here, in DR we still have platanos, bananas, rulos, yuka, batatas, name, yautia, buenpan, potatoes. there are so many other options. many more in america.
No question about it. My second wife died from cancer (she was from a country where people ate rice every day and often more than once a day.) My mother died from cancer. A friend here just lost his wife to cancer and lived with a cancer survivor before that. A fellow from Canada , a musician, went to Canada this week for cancer treatment. Who knows what caused that.
We can be selective. Hopefully it doesn't cause problems for those that eat rice almost every day.
Lawmakers seek limits on arsenic in rice | Reuters
Americans rarely cook much of anything that gets a meaningful scoop of rice in it, and when it does it represents a very limited size of the population. As noted, Latinos eat white/bleached rice in their diets, unlike the brown and wild type rice mixes which carry most of the highest arsenic levels found there.
That make sense.
Only Dominicans wash their rice before cooking? I thought it needed to be washed.
Wow, live and learn. I am not being sarcastic. I really didn't know this... :chinese:
GB, are you Dominican? You are having problems, dude!
windeguy, cancer is very common. our food, water, the air we breath is contaminated with chemicals, heavy metals and naturally occurring poisons. many environmental issues cannot be controlled, cannot be avoided. cancer is a civilizational disease: we have the power to overcome and cure so many illnesses but we keep on creating new ones.
having your loved ones die of cancer is painful but you cannot let that make you paranoid about your food, drink and the lifestyle you keep. some things you can eliminate (quit smoking) and control (eating home made, organic, safe and secure foods). but do not let this become the only sense of your existence. at the end of the day cancer is a roulette, there is nothing you can do about it.
having your loved ones die of cancer is painful but you cannot let that make you paranoid about your food, drink and the lifestyle you keep. some things you can eliminate (quit smoking) and control (eating home made, organic, safe and secure foods). but do not let this become the only sense of your existence. at the end of the day cancer is a roulette, there is nothing you can do about it.
As far as I know rice was used to concoct many home remedies for topical problems, but mostly the stuff found on the surface as the grain itself got disposed of.
I grew up in a southern Italian home - NO rice. Ever. The only time mom ever made it was if someone had 'the runs' - as a natural remedy/medicine.
I eat rice now, but to tell the truth, if I were cooking for myself I'd never make it. Mr. AE craves it, as do our kids, and now our grandkids love it too, so I'm rather outnumbered. Looks like I'll be cooking it for the duration of my life. :classic:
i grew up in a communist poland: potatoes all the way! to this day my parents do not even eat pasta. neither do i, actually, because it lies heavily on my stomach.
when i came to DR miesposo was a rice man. i changed his diet completely. he now eats huge variety of starch foods, many times we have meat/fish with salad only, no carbs. our life is pure harmony: i have to cook different stuff and he has to eat it!
to this day my parents do not even eat pasta. neither do i, actually, because it lies heavily on my stomach.when i came to DR miesposo was a rice man. i changed his diet completely. he now eats huge variety of starch foods, many times we have meat/fish with salad only, no carbs. our life is pure harmony: i have to cook different stuff and he has to eat it!