Through various media, you are aware about so many factors which influence your chance of getting type 2 diabetes. One more new study has come and it shows that brown rice is better than white rice to prevent diabetes. Rice is the staple food in Asia and is fast catching up in UK and some other non Asian counties as well. Brown rice is partly milled, while white rice is heavily refined. This makes white rice cook faster, and some say taste better, but it also removes much of the nutritional value, leaving mainly carbohydrate-rich interior.

     US researchers (Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts) looked at three large studies that tracked people's diet, lifestyle, and well-being over 20 years or more. In total, more than 195,000 Americans filled out questionnaires on their health, eating habits etc. at the start of the studies and then every four years after. The researchers used this data to look specifically at participants' rice consumption and whether they developed type 2 diabetes during the study period.

     The study results show that People who ate five or more servings of white rice per week had a 17 percent higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes than those who ate less than one serving a month. In contrast, people who ate two or more servings of brown rice per week had an 11 percent lower risk than those who ate less than one serving a month.
Scientists estimate that people who have white rice as their main food can cut their diabetes risk by 36 % if they switch entirely to brown rice.