I believe that rice was one of the major contributing factors to my demise as it was one of my favourite foods. I use to eat loads of the stuff, don't any more and mysteriously my blood sugars are now normal. A coincidence? :think:
Customer helplines that use recorded menus that promise to put me through to the right person but never do - and being ill. Oh, and did I mention customer helplines :)
Not so with basmati rice in fact the human body has a job trying to break it down at all, its all to do with the molecular structure of basmati rice, our bodies have trouble breaking it down to a single glucose molecule.
Although it is said that there is a higher incidence of diabetes in Asia
I have no doub that CHEAP food can be one of the causes Type 2 Diabetes. The combination of simple carbs (white flour, white rice, white pasta, etc...) and hydrogenated fats (extremely cheap to propduce) is extremely detrimental to health...
What a surprise that poor people are suffering more and more with Type 2!