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How to Prevent Diabetes

www.diabetesdiettreatment.com It's a good thing that Chinese food is so popular here in the West. Not because it's so delicious (though it really is), but because it helps introduce into your diet food types and nutrients that you would never otherwise have in a regular American meal plan. Lots of Chinese take-out items on the menu, if you would take the trouble to notice, have the option of substituting the white rice part of the package with the brown whole-grain kind. Brown rice of course isn't a whole new variety - it's the regular rice you eat, except that it hasn't been subjected to industrial polishing that will turn the brown skinned natural grain into the white familiar rice you know to inhabit the packages on the shelf at the supermarket. Brown rice has a great peel of bran that has lots of great nutrients, vitamins and roughage. Eating brown rice also has a great part to play in diabetes prevention - brown rice has a lower glycemic index. What that means is, it doesn't get your blood glucose levels up the way white rice can.