Rice is a basis of a daily diet more, than half of all population of the earth. Asia traditionally is considered the homeland of rice, in modern Thailand and Vietnam for the first time began to cultivate rice culture.
Rice by right occupies one of leading places in culinary traditions of people of the world. High nutritiousness and light compatibility with other products – the most important qualities of rice. Rice is very useful to a human body, with it not only energy consumption is filled, but also a significant amount of proteins, carbohydrates and minerals arrives, and at the same time it contains very few fats.
The rice grain, the smaller quantity of mineral substances and vitamins B it was exposed to bigger processing remained. Structure of rice identical it isn't dependent on a grade.
In medical practice rice was always applied at treatment of violations in work of an alimentary system. Also it helps at diarrhea. Besides, there is an assumption that the use of a rice bran helps to reduce risk of development of cancer of GIT.
Among the people eating mainly white rice the deficiency of thiamine is considerably widespread. Nevertheless, such useful otrubevy cover which remains when processing brown rice contains too a part of unhealthy substances of the person, such as phytin acid which "slows down" process of digestion of calcium and iron. Starch which in a significant amount contains in rice is acquired and digested slowly, thus, providing constant intake of glucose, and it allows to control at patients with diabetes sugar level in blood. Rice is bezglyutenovy culture, that is why it is very useful to those who have an intolerance of wheat (intestinal infantility, a tseliakiya or Gertera-Geybner's disease). It is extraordinary important for babies as they didn't create sufficient degree of activity of enzymes of intestines yet, and porridge with gluten can provoke a disease of a tseliakiya. By rules of a feeding up, the child is given rice porridge on milk as milk enriches it with many complete proteins, by mineral substances and vitamins and, in addition, does it more nice to the taste. Rice porridge is recommended by experts food of small children. But it is necessary to enter it not earlier, than in 4.5 months. In rare instances it can be entered since two months, most often when vomiting. The feeding up is begun with small portions on one teaspoon.
Many nutritionists recommend fasting rice days. Rice contains a small amount of sodium (he is capable to hold liquid in an organism), but it is a lot of potassium (it promotes sodium removal), also 8 major amino acids are a part of rice grains. It is enough to arrange himself rice day for light loss up to 1 kg of body weight once a week – excess liquid and the final products of a metabolism.