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Most common way to prepare rice can offer health damage
This chemical element is associated with a number of diseases, such as cancer and diabetes. Arsenic is found naturally in the soil and because of the low levels of toxicity it does not cause concern to the authorities, but even small amounts can already infect the food.
However, the fact that rice is grown in flooded plantations facilitates grain contamination . According to the study, rice has about 10 to 20 times more arsenic than other cereal crops.
"The only thing I can compare (with the act of eating rice) is smoking. two cigarettes a day, your risks will be much lower than the risks of a person who smokes 30 or 40 cigarettes daily. "It depends on the dose, the more you eat, the greater the risk," said Andy Meharg. the greatest concern is the amount of rice children or infants ingest: "We know that low levels of arsenic can impact immune development, growth and IQ development."
In 2014, the Food and Drug Administration, the an agency that regulates drugs and foods in the US, has released research showing that arsenic levels in more than 1,300 rice samples pose no immediate or short-term health risk. However, the organization will continue to investigate whether consumption could cause chronic diseases.
Research is important to better understand the effects of this chemical element, but it does not mean that people need to stop eating rice. Researcher Andy Meharg has suggested two other ways of cooking the food to be partially free of arsenic. The first is to use a proportion of five parts of water to one part of rice and to draw out excess water. In this way, levels of the toxic product were almost halved. The second is to let the rice soak overnight and then drain the water, decreasing the toxin by 80%.
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