Buddhists say that gods who once went down to Earth ate only rice. As soon as they began to sin, coming under influence of locals, rice was gone and gods turned into the ordinary people forced to get the favourite food with huge work.
If to leave from legends and myths, and to look at the world map and history, then it is possible to learn that throughout long time rice was the main food at many nationalities. Especially it concerns orientals and Asia. To this day there rice represents a basis of the majority of dishes and the only traditional garnish. All because rice is extremely useful.
Advantage:
Lack of gluten.
This undoubted advantage of what rice can brag. Many people suffer from allergic reactions to gluten. On counters of shops it is possible to see separate racks with products which don't contain this vegetable protein, and the choice of such products, to put it mildly, is small. Rice can be the fine power supply in a daily diet of the people inclined to an allergy to gluten.
Proteinaceous connections.
Rice is extremely rich with them. It supports everything, amino acids, necessary for a human body.
Group B vitamins.
This vitamin group is necessary for harmonious work of central nervous system.
Lecithin.
Thanks to it the brain of the person regularly works. Lecithin is necessary for a brain as it has a promoting effect.
Potassium.
Rice contains also a set of other minerals, but potassium is distinguished from them as it much more the others. This mineral — guarantee of health of heart and vessels. Potassium strengthens a heart muscle that is necessary for normal pumping of blood. The lack of potassium can be shown by frustration of a warm rhythm. If such symptoms periodically happen, as complex therapy it is necessary to include in a daily diet of a dish on the basis of rice.
Conclusion of salt and water.
Rice perfectly brings salts and excess water out of an organism. Thanks to it, it is recommended to those people who care for health of kidneys and a bladder.
The enveloping property.
This property does rice irreplaceable for people who have any failures in function of an alimentary system. Especially it is recommended to people at whom the stomach produces juice with high acidity.
Despite notable useful qualities of rice and a divine legend of it, this product, as well as all others in the nature, has contraindications. The problems with intestines which are expressed by locks and a meteorizm concern them.