THE U.S. National Diabetes Fact Sheet released on Jan. 26, 2011 showed there are 25.8 million children and adults in the United States, or 8.3 percent of the population, have diabetes.
MEDICAL researchers announced on March 15, 2012 that they discovered a “troubling link between higher consumption of white rice and Type 2 diabetes mellitus,” which is of epidemic proportion in Asia and other regions where white rice is the staple food.