To sum up, contrary to Dr. Gregers disingenuous assertions, a low - fat plant - based diet with regular white
rice consumption actually cures diabetes, and the research shows that even among Americans who consumed 5 + servings of white (arsenic - contaminated US - grown) rice a week actually had a lower relative risk of developing the most common forms of cancer.
Not exact matches
IRRI says that the Green Revolution may have
actually increased malnutrition among the poor.19
Consumption of vegetables in most Asian countries has remained stagnant since the Green Revolution and vegetable prices have increased in both real and relative terms.20 In India, annual
rice and wheat production has more than tripled from pre-Green Revolution levels.
That set of limitations is
actually quite good — it just clarifies that the study only looked at
rice consumption in a given population without specifically measuring the arsenic content in the
rice consumed.
By contrast, in the NHS II study there was a much smaller difference in red meat
consumption between the white and brown
rice eaters — and the white
rice eaters
actually had a slightly lower incidence of diabetes.
So at the end of a 13 - part video series raising false alarm about cancer risk in
rice, Dr. Greger finally gets to the only study that
actually looked at the evidence... and found no statistically significant risk of cancer, even with the highest level of
rice consumption.