People eating 5 or more servings of white rice per week had a 17% greater risk of type 2 diabetes compared to those eating less than one serving per month after adjusting for age, lifestyle and dietary risk factors according to a 2010 analysis by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Replacing one-third serving of white rice with brown rice per day lowers type 2 diabetes risk 16%

“We estimated that replacing [one-third serving] of white rice with the same amount of brown rice was associated with a 16% lower risk of type 2 diabetes, whereas the same replacement with whole grains as a group was associated with a 36% lower diabetes risk,” the authors of the paper noted.

People eating 2 or more servings of brown rice per week had an 11% lower risk of type 2 diabetes compared to those eating less than one serving per month after adjusting for age, lifestyle and dietary risk factors according to a 2010 analysis by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Replacing one-third serving of white rice with brown rice per day lowers type 2 diabetes risk 16%

“We estimated that replacing [one-third serving] of white rice with the same amount of brown rice was associated with a 16% lower risk of type 2 diabetes, whereas the same replacement with whole grains as a group was associated with a 36% lower diabetes risk,” the authors of the paper noted.

Scientists found that by cooking rice in water with coconut oil added, then refrigerating it for 12 hours, increased resistant starch in the rice and reduced absorbable calories by 50-60 percent.