Back to brown: how a shift away from refined white rice could cut diabetes

The secret to a healthier diet has been around for centuries: a return to unprocessed grain in its natural state. And in Asia, the health benefits could be hugeA plan to develop a new breed of iron-rich rice that could ward off disease was swiftly abandoned by Dr Sirimal Premakumara after he ventured into the countryside of Sri Lanka - and found it already existed.The secret to injecting more nutrition into the common diet, he discovered, were already there in the varieties of rice the country's farmers had been growing for centuries. Continue reading...