Compound that Helps Rice Grow Reduces Nerve, Vascular Damage from Diabetes

[Celebration]

http://www.physorg.com/news136467430.html

You may want to soak your brown rice. Researchers have found that a compound that helps rice seed grow, springs back into action when brown rice is placed in water overnight before cooking, significantly reducing the nerve and vascular damage that often result from diabetes.

"You have to let it grow, germinate a little bit," says Dr. Robert K. Yu, director of the Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics and Institute of Neuroscience at the Medical College of Georgia. "Some of the active ingredients generated as a result of the germination process are beneficial to you."

Germinated brown rice's ability to help diabetics lower their blood sugar has been shown but how it works remained unknown. New research, published online in the Journal of Lipid Research, shows the growth factor acylated steryl glucosides or ASG, helps normalize blood sugar and enzymes that are out-of-whack in diabetes.

"The advantage of knowing this key ingredient and its structure is we can now make a ton of it; you don't have to rely on rice to produce it or eating rice to get this beneficial effect," says Dr. Yu, the paper's corresponding author.

Studies were done in animal models of type 1 diabetes with two different blood sugar levels that reflect patients' varying blood sugars. They were fed diets of white, brown or pre-germinated brown rice. Unlike white rice, less-processed brown rice still has some of the germ or growth structure that, after about 24 hours in water, resumes activity. Scientists watched as the resurrected ASG, a growth factor and lipid, helped normalize metabolism.

[JuniperLea]

1. Good find!

I've recently started eating a lot more fiber because of the benefits for diabetics. It runs strong in my family. High fiber has a lot of other health benefits too... and it's not that hard to put more fiber in your diet from the foods you eat.

Thanks for posting this!

[grasswire]

2. so.......

...in order to access this benefit, a person would soak unprocessed brown rice in water for 24 hours before eating? Is that right? And then eat the rice, or drink the water?

[supernova]

3. Soak it over night

then cook the rice the next day. that's what I get out of it.

If you use the right amount of water, you won't have extra water.

[Celebration]

4. eat the sprouted rice

The water would probably be soaked up by the rice.