Brown Rice is good for your skin, too.
I just recently picked up a rice cooker myself, and boy was it a good purchase. Making rice is exceptionally easy with one of these, and it makes for a quick, healthy, and thrifty meal (although prices are on the rise…). With the popularity of diets that replace typical breads with rice-based meals, such as the South Beach Diet, etc., rice has become a hot item for the health-conscious, especially brown rice.
As I’ve mentioned in the past, rice is also better than processed breads when it comes to skin care, as it contains fewer (or no) artificial ingredients that can spell problems for your skin, and doesn’t put as much of a drain on your metabolic fuel, which means a lower chance of experiencing oily skin as a result of your meal.
Brown rice is the rice of choice for a number of reasons. Unlike white rice, brown rice still has it’s outer covering of bran intact. Brown rice has more than three times as much fiber as white rice. Most people do not get enough fiber in their diet, and fiber is needed to slow the absorption of carbohydrates, even your level of blood sugar, and lower your cholesterol. The bran layer also contains key minerals whicyh are beneficial to skin health, such as zinc and magnesium. Some rice is also enriched with additional vitamins, in which case you should not wash off the rice prior to cooking it, as you may wash away some of these.
While rice is nice, let’s face it, a big part of the benefit of eating rice is that you’re not eating processed breads. Processed breads are very quickly absorbed and use a lot of coenzyme-A in their metabolism, putting a drain on your body’s ability to break down skin oil. If you look around the world, you’ll find that cultures which have rice-based diets rather than bread-based diets all have lower instances of acne in their populations. You might want to think about replacing some of those bread meals with rice ones
