Fitness Tip #6 of #31 Eat Brown Rice (Instead of white rice/bread)

Eliminate both bread and white rice from your diet and replace them with brown rice. Whenever you typically have bread with a meal have brown rice instead. If you are planning to have white rice with a meal, don’t, eat brown rice instead every time. Both bread and white rice are highly processed and increase your blood sugar levels more than brown rice will. When your blood sugar spikes, the pancreas begins to produce large amounts of insulin. Insulin maintains stable blood sugar levels by telling the body’s cells when to absorb glucose from the bloodstream. If you eat a lot of foods that increase your blood sugar level you can begin to develop insulin resistance. Being insulin resistant means your body stops responding to insulin, and instead stores more calories as fat.

Brown rice has antioxidants and phytonutrients that boosts the immune system, lowers cholesterol, reduces risk of heart disease, stroke and colon cancer, and reduces severity of asthma. Brown rice can substantially reduce the risk of colon cancer, as it is a very good source of selenium, a trace mineral that helps with DNA repair and synthesis in damaged cells and inhibits the proliferation of cancer cells. Selenium is also an antioxidant and is essential for thyroid hormone metabolism and immune function. Brown riceis great source of dietary fiber; so it minimizes the amount of time cancer-causing substances spend in contact with colon cells.

             Here are some more benefits of Brown Rice

1. Provides all necessary carbohydrates requirements.
2. Rich in fibers.
3. Helps control blood sugar.
4. Helps control cholesterol.
5. It is a body building food.
6. Beneficial for stomach and intestinal ulcers and for diarrhea. It is easily digested starch food.
7. Because of the mineral content, it supplies important nutrient for the hair, teeth, nails, muscles and bones.
8. It contains B vitamins, Thiamine, Niacin, B6, Vitamin K, Calcium, Iron Phosphorus, and Potassium.

Now get to the store and buy some brown rice (you know you don’t have any!). See you tomorrow..