The Many Benefits Of Eating Bulgur Wheat

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Bulgur, also known as riffoth or burghul, is a cereal food made from the parboiled ground semolina of several different wheat species. It originated in the cuisine of West Asia. Sometimes, bulgur is confused with cracked wheat which is a shredded grain of wheat that has not been parboiled like bulgur. It … Read more

Beat Diabetes…by Cooking?!

World diabetes day awareness concept. The diabetic measures the level of glucose in the blood, 14 November.

In the United States, diabetes is increasing at an alarming rate. According to the CDC’s National Diabetes Statistics Report for 2020, diabetes cases have raised to 34.2 million people – meaning 10.5% of the US population has diabetes. In 2018 alone, about 1.5 million new cases of diabetes were recorded among adults. … Read more

Brown Rice Helps Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk

Brown Rice Helps Lower Type 2 Diabetes Risk

A study published in this week’s Archives of Internal Medicine indicates that substituting brown rice for white rice can help lower the risk of type 2 diabetes. Researchers from Harvard and Brigham & Women’s Hospital found that nurses enrolled in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study and the Nurses Health Study I and … Read more

Diabetics Cheat Death with Bran

Diabetics Cheat Death with Bran

A study published in the May 25, 2010 issue of Circulation finds that people with diabetes who eat more whole grains are less likely to die from cardiovascular disease than are people with diabetes who have low whole grain intakes. The researchers from Harvard and other Boston-area research institutes studied almost 8,000 … Read more