Organic Food Can Have High Concentrations Of Arsenic
Rice is known to have concentrations of arsenic that find their way into the population, especially among people who consume more rice than other staples. New research is suggesting that even organic brown rice can have high concentrations of arsenic, and with processing to produce syrups and other packaged foods, the poison can become more concentrated…
February 16, 2012 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: brown-rice, consume-more, even-organic, nutrition, nutrition / diet, nutritional counseling, oncalldietitian.com, oncalldiets, packaged, packaged-foods, poison, population, produce-syrups, staples, the-population
Fibre, Whole Grains, Linked To Lower Colorectal Cancer Risk
Following a diet high in fibre, particularly from whole grains and cereals like brown rice and oats, is linked to a lower risk of colorectal cancer, according to researchers in Britain and The Netherlands who pooled all available published evidence, covering nearly 2 million people. They write about their findings in a study published online in the BMJ on 10 November…
November 11, 2011 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: bmj, britain, brown-rice, diet-high, findings, lower-risk, netherlands, nutrition, nutritional counseling, on call diets, oncalldietitian.com, their-findings