brown rice and Reduced Body Weight Gain

• Brown rice-specific γ-oryzanol as a promising prophylactic avenue to protect against diabetes mellitus and obesity in humans.

  • 2018-08-21
  • Review
  • Journal of diabetes investigation 10(1)
  • • Hiroaki Masuzaki
    • Chisayo Kozuka
    • Shiki Okamoto
    • Masato Yonamine
    • Hideaki Tanaka
    • Michio Shimabukuro

  • PubMed: 29978570
  • DOI: 10.1111/jdi.12892

  4 Insights on

  • Reduced Body Weight Gain

  • Low evidence

  daily intake of brown rice effectively ameliorates bodyweight gain, impaired glucose tolerance/insulin resistance and dependence on fatty foods in obese, prediabetes men

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes