The main cause of Vietnamese diabetes

The cause of diabetes is numerous. However, one of the causes of this disease in Vietnam is few people think. Vietnamese people have a habit of using white rice as their main food during meals. This is the reason why the rate of diabetes in Vietnamese people is high.

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The main cause of diabetes

There have been at least 2 studies on the position of white rice among the causes of the era disease.

The first study was conducted by researchers at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.

This study is a combination of smaller studies lasting from 4 to 22 years with a total of 352,000 people from Asian countries (China and Japan) and two in the West (USA and Australia).

These studies aim to find a link between eating white rice and the risk of type 2 diabetes and answering the question of whether Asians tend to eat more white rice than those at high risk of diabetes. more?

During the study, 13,284 people had diabetes. Asia is still the area with more people with diabetes. In particular, women are more infected than men.

Conclusion: eating white rice may increase the risk of diabetes . People who eat three white rice meals a day are more likely to have type 2 diabetes than those who eat two meals a week.

The researchers say rice has a high blood sugar index , which means that the body quickly converts the carbohydrate in rice into glucose. The glycemic index of 64 white rice on a 100-point scale ranks first among foods with a high blood sugar index.

The diet with 70% energy supplied from white rice is the cause of diabetes for Vietnamese people.

Another study published by Prof. Shigeru Yamamoto, Director of the Center for Nutrition Research and Asian Culinary Culture, Jumoji University, Tokyo, Japan also demonstrated the link between the habit of eating white rice and diabetes.

Accordingly, the high-sugar diet of Vietnamese people is mainly white rice, which is the main reason for Vietnamese people with diabetes at high level, not genetic factors.

From this eating habit of Vietnamese people, about 70% of sugar energy increases the level of blood sugar response in Vietnam between the ages of 60-65, making the risk of diabetes increase.

According to the researchers, it is not possible to negate the health benefits that white rice brings, the body is indispensable or replaces the role of sugars that the foods provided include white rice.

However, to limit the risk of diabetes, a reasonable diet is needed, gradually reducing the amount of white rice used in meals. It is possible to use a combination of brown rice and sprouted rice to partially replace white rice to better control diabetes.

Using brown rice and germinated rice will reduce the level of postprandial blood sugar response than white rice . Moreover, brown rice and sprouted rice also have higher nutritional value than white rice and also reduce obesity.