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10 stories for“rice and diabetes”
Telling a household built around rice to stop eating rice is advice that gets nodded at and ignored. Four changes to the same plate do more for post-meal glucose than an instruction nobody will follow.
Aug 8, 2026
Glycaemic index measures the quality of a carbohydrate in a standardised portion nobody eats. Glycaemic load multiplies it by the amount actually on the plate, and the two frequently disagree.
Aug 14, 2026
Identical food, identical calories, identical macronutrients. The only variable was what went in the mouth first, and glucose at sixty minutes fell by 36.7 per cent. It is the cheapest intervention in diabetes nutrition.
Aug 18, 2026
Wholemeal, wholegrain, multigrain, brown, granary and wheat all sound like the same promise. Only one of them reliably means the whole grain is in there, and the difference shows up in your glucose two hours later.
Aug 9, 2026
Dates are sweet, so the assumption is that people with diabetes should avoid them. A study of Fara'd, Lulu, Bo ma'an, Dabbas and Khalas found low glycaemic indices and no significant glucose excursions in the diabetic group.
Aug 12, 2026
Chicken, eggs, fish, legumes and most vegetables are out. Rice, potatoes, red meat and certain sugars are in. Set out plainly, the food lists are stranger than the slogans suggest.
May 13, 2026
Banning fish and fruit while encouraging red meat and starch is not a cautious eating plan. Set against the evidence, each exclusion removes something with a measurable protective effect.
Jun 3, 2026
Most adults eat about half the fibre they need. The gap matters more than dieters realise, and closing it is not about bran.
May 22, 2024
