{"id":51291,"date":"2022-12-20T15:00:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/dec\/20\/shift-away-from-refined-white-rice-cut-diabetes"},"modified":"2022-12-20T15:00:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T06:00:41","slug":"back-to-brown-how-a-shift-away-from-refined-white-rice-could-cut-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51291","title":{"rendered":"Back to brown: how a shift away from refined white rice could cut diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 huge<\/p>\n<p>A 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 \u2013 and found it already existed.<\/p>\n<p>The secret to injecting more nutrition into the common diet, he discovered, were already there in the varieties of rice the country\u2019s farmers had been growing for centuries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/dec\/20\/shift-away-from-refined-white-rice-cut-diabetes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 aban&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1484,65,653,311,59,566,62,2257,61,674,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes","category-environment","category-farming","category-food","category-global-development","category-global-health","category-india","category-rice","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sri-lanka","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51292,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51291\/revisions\/51292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}