Considering rice has made up the bulk of the diet for pretty all the east, from the Indian Subcontinent to Japan and Australasia, and to my knowledge there isn't an epidemic of arsenic problems, I think requires more research and corroborating studies
But they've had rice for 8-13 thousand years, have their bodies adapted to it in ways western Europeans haven't? They are a lot more lactose intolerant than western Europeans are so food adaptations like that have happened.
DunderBrother True, but it means our bodies coped with it to begin with - and we were far worse off in diet and health amd regular meals etc back then than today
it's been a main diet for most of asian people for thousands of year. so i think it's pretty safe to say that their intestine have been adapted, and people who had allergy with it might be have less offspring so their rice allergy gene didn't get passed down so widespread. just like european caucasian who had lactose tolerant since they had more adapted to consume non-human dairy product their intestine slowly adapted to it even though there is people in europe who still had lactose intolerant, but compare to the rest of the world they got more lactose tolerant.
I don't think these scientists are saying "people are suddenly dropping dead of arsenic poisoning and rice is the killer!" They're saying that low but chronic doses of arsenic, similar to what you would be exposed to if you ate rice regularly all your life, puts you at a greater risk of several health detriments. Given that rice has been grown and consumed presumably at the same levels for hundreds/thousands of years (in the cultures you mentioned), there wouldn't suddenly be the epidemic of arsenic problems you're looking for. But you're right, more research is definitely needed and I don't think panic is never truly justified.
Just another thing for press to whine about in the absence of anything else more interesting. Within reason, most stuff we know that is "safe" to eat is just that, safe, and has been for decades. Try hard enough and you'll find that dihydrogen monoxide is one of the strongest solvents around and is indeed lethal in the correct doses, despite its prevalence in our diets.
It is just exaggerated by the wheat, maize, corn lobbies. We had a similar propaganda against coconut oil by palm oil, corn oil lobbies which all turned out to be false narratives.
about palm oil, it's true. the expansion for palm oil plantation is so fast that u will see so much differencies if u for example come to a spot in the middle of Sumatera or Borneo island in Indonesia in 2000 and u come back to that spot again in 2005. U will see so much differencies. And it will be bad for the one of countries with the most richest biodiversity. It will be bad for those plants and animals. And also bad for our nature.. and in the end it will be bad for human. Trust me. I'm Indonesian. I hate those palm oil companies as well. And our corrupt government that legalize and allowed them to destroying our forests. Indonesia is famous as "THE FOREST DESTRUCTOR". Check how fast Indonesia destroying forest per year on google. and most of them for the sake of palm oil plantation.
Bullcrap info... most of the central and SE asian countries consume rice upto three times a day as their primary meal. Yet these countries have lesser ratio of cancer patiens.. live a ling life.. and are pretty smart too.. i think there is another angle for such propaganda..
Well maybe given the long history of relying on rice (thousands of years) as the main carbohydrate in the diet, Asians and people of Asian descent might have evolved to better tolerate arsenic in their bodies without leading to cancer. The same way that Caucasians are better adapted to lactose than Asians.
Relying on on-line newspaper reports for your information is a false start, and then interviewing a professor of whom we do not know his affiliations other than he is a "professor" leaves this information open to many more questions. Who is paying for his research? Could he be a shill for a rival industry? Has his "research" been published and peer reviewed? The biggest question is just how much rice would one have to eat to experience severe threats to one's life? I for one am not going to forgo eating rice based on this report.
Little bit of Googling and he's the only person a lot of these articles are referencing. This channel keeps putting out extremely biased content. They didn't even try and find someone with a different opinion.
Clark Chavez yes. I'm a brit who has been living in Japan for 20 year. True, I don't eat rice every day but I do 4 time a week. I also have full medical checks every year with not one illness related to rice. In fact high cholesterol related to eating too much cheese. Bugger, better start a lobby against cheese 😋
Retro Core Damned cheese ahaha, quite frankly, when I saw this as I topic I was surprised as I have never heard of rice being a silent poisoner ! Still though, I refuse to give up rice, never !
This is absolutely misleading and alarmist. You make sure and put up big numbers as you pour large amounts of rice on screen but give nothing to compare it to other than a vague “compared to wheat.” Alright, 20x what? Zero? 10g? 100? If this is such a danger, why is it so many people can eat it on a regular basis and live full, perfectly healthy lives?
Arsenic had always existed in soil naturally, however, in recent modern times humans have used it in animal agricultural, particularly chicken feed, along with other applications. So now the arsenic levels of some rice is much higher than in previous eras of history. Cook rice like one would pasta, way more water than you need, then rinse well, this,will remove some of the excess arsenic.
I live in Asia and I eat it every day , so far no harm. Mcd far more unhealthy with oily fatty and sugar giving much more harm to the body if eat it every day but not rice
I think the act of getting in my car to go and pick up a takeaway with rice is a far more dangerous proposition. Press will say anything just to get attention. I've lost count of the number of things that were said to be bad for you and now good for you depending on what aspect you measure.
Us Bangladeshis eat rice thrice a day. Many can't live without it for a single day. Though we are aware of many health problems associated with regular consumption of rice like diabetese etc, but never before have I heard of rice having such high arsenic level. We need more research being done on this.
I never understood why all these studies regarding food everyone has been eating for centuries have to come out and say it’s “bad for you”. It’s this way for a few months, and then another “study” comes out stating they were wrong. People have nothing better to do??
In this report, they are talking about the amount of arsenic in the rice. You have to compare that amount in rice with the allowable amount of arsenic in the body. I mean how much arsenic is permissible to be safer in the human body. At a very low amount ( a very low dose), a poison will not have a serious effect to cause any cellular metastasis (or cancer or gene alteration, etc.) ( this is called dose response). Everything is about the dose. Also, we have to consider the population living on rice and their purchasing power. Rice is by far one of the cheapest foods in the world. From public health's ( global public health, not western countries' public health) perspective, you need to consider these factors. Do not be afraid of a report like this. We need a lot of research on a topic to come down to a decision finally. This report should have talked about these factors considering BBC's global popularity.
So, arsenic content in rice is not new, at least to me, as an American consumer. My understanding is that arsenic is the reason we are told to rinse rice carefully in a clean water source--in order to remove excess traces of arsenic in rice dust. From living in India, I learned about soaking rice (usually 30 min to 1 hour), which not only makes it much cook faster and taste better (esp varieties like basmati), but it also reduces arsenic. Arsenic is water soluble, so as long as you pour out the soaking water (now containing some of the arsenic from the rice) and boil it in fresh water, you should be fine. While arsenic in rice is a serious health concern, it mostly impacts poorer communities where they eat lots of rice but do not regularly wash it--perhaps because they have limited access to clean water. Even the UK food safety guidelines note the risk of arsenic in rice and how to mitigate it by rinsing--It's not something most people need to be alarmed about. And obviously, be cautious of what you feed your infant--too much of any single food is dangerous (see corn and niacin deficiencies), but feeding toddlers carefully prepared rice is likely not a problem. What could have been an informative piece comes across as scaremongering. Do better, BBC.
They are a lot more subjects that need to be taken into consideration in this research. It almost seems like most of them are ignored on purpose. Rice is one of the most popular foods in the world, and the countries that consume it the most doesn't seem to suffer from health issues.
I don't know what to fill about this, But I've eaten Rice since I was a child, also my younger sister has eaten rice since she was really small and the same goes for my parents and my grandparents. And none of them and I ever had any problem or symptoms caused by arsenic. So I think it's an overblown news to scare people.
it is ironic that with the growth in milk alternatives, rice, soya, almond, etc.. there has been a flood of articles, programs, documentaries about how these aren't good for us.. no one seems to analyse cows milk though.. diary lobby anyone?
So at this point there is apparently nothing left that's safe to eat. It's shocking that in this day and age, when there are so many scientific breakthroughs in other fields, there is still no reliable consensus on what we should or should not put into our mouths.
This is alarmist. Just wash the rice and soak for a half an hour before boiling. There won't be any arsenic left. This is the proper way of cooking anyway. And has been eaten for centuries in India without any problems.
That's weird because in Japan the average person eats much more rice and seafood than most westerners yet the average person in japan has a higher IQ and a longer and healthier life expectancy.
I eat rice 3 to 4 times a day. But recently I had developed a behaviour of eating raw rice. This condition is called as pica, which is an eating disorder. The effects were horrible. After I started eating raw rice I suffered from anaemia and developed period cramps and also tooth cavities. I stopped consuming raw rice after it became like this. Now I don't have any of those symptoms. But I eat cooked rice as it's a staple food. So I think the problem is with raw rice and not the cooked rice... ( THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION ACCORDING TO EXPERIENCE )
I frankly don't share the conspiracy theories some users shared but I surely expected some more data: what's the arsenic dosage that can be considered harmful and how often should you eat rice to assume it, other risks related to alternatives and so on. I just found this quite uselessly alarming.
I'm Korean. I dont think it applies to me, or any asians i know. BUT that doesnt mean that Europeans are the same. Asians have been eating rice for a LONG TIME. So it make sense that Asian have some tolerance built to it. But same cant be said to Europeans or other ethnicity that doest usually consume rice.
Well I'm from India, We eat rice so much but we don't have any problems. I myself use basmati rice and brown rice. But there are no effect with my health
There's no actual science related to the question in the title, only a measure of how much is in rice, not how it affects anyone, I swear the BBC used to be better than this.
You know, if anything, they should do the study right in the source area where rice is being planted, together with local researcher, first to prevent bias result, second to actually find out the truth, if there really is something that could endanger the consumer, it could help not just Europe, but Asian people as well, third to find out, is it really because the plantation conition, or is it maybe cause by logistic way of storaging or something like that Right now we live in time where information can really easy to manipulate in order to convince the public, and I'm not trying to bad mouth this video or even BBC, but looking back, many of our aspect of live is built by manipulating information and demonized tactic to control the public
Video failed to provide factual measurements for its claims saying its 5 or 20 times more arsenic than other cereal grains isnt the same as saying dangerous amounts are x grams per kg and rice contains +/- y grams per kg. Without solid information this is bad reporting and mostly scaremongering even if its true
Uwais Bangi We in Asia eat 3 meals of rice on average , EVERYDAY and rice are always has been a staple since thousand years ago you’d think we would be overdosed by now and yet here we are
Isnamereally thatimportant I'm South Asian so trust me I know all about rice too we make it in such a way that removes a lot of the arsenic that's why you're still here my statement still stands though if water in excessive quantities is bad for you how can you think rice isn't
Just eat what you want and listen to your body. Your body does a pretty good job at telling you what it wants and what it doesn’t want and your consciousness helps too with what you should eat and shouldn’t eat or what’s good and isn’t good. Food is food. It’s all good in its own moderation which is different for everyone. That’s why I say listen to your body.
3 gripes i have with this vid first, it is known that the food regulations have been always tampered with in the eu, every time some scandals happened they just up the limits and blame one thing. second, this video states that at the end that 4-5 bowls a day is too much, no one eats that much every day the whole week, not even in asian countries(i think). third, there no sources in the video description, without that i can simply not believe this single vid(i don't care if you are "the reputable source TM" it's just one of many). also it it makes it hard to see if the said test were done with the raw stuff, washed stuff or cooked stuff...
There is nothing safe to eat anymore for me. Wheat has gluten, oat has nickel, fish has heavy metals and other pollutants, red meat is unhealthy, chicken has antibiotic and hormones, cured meat is carcinogenic, lactose intolerant, allergic to eggs, allergic to greens... and now rice has arsenic. So, I have been eating potatoes. But I think I am putting on weight. My trousers don't fit anymore.
If you are a professor spending your whole career researching a topic like this, and then someone asks you is it important, are you going to say no? (I know Mosley asks should he be concerned, rather than is it an important topic. But to the professor, they are the same question.)
Wait, who thought that white rice was healthy? It's like white flour -- there's almost no nutritional content, and it's mostly filler starch. It's not healthy at all. Brown rice and other untreated varieties are quite nutritious and healthy, though.
Asian here. We call cooked rice meal in the language. And when we see how the Europeans make rice cooked but still taste like raw, we laugh and say "foreigners can't into rice". You don't eat rice, you don't know how to eat or cook rice, you even can't separate cooked and raw rice in your language and yet you are talking about how dangerous they are? Bravo. All I could say is... try hard? Isn't this lovely? (Martian style)
i was wandering what if you go to asia and do your research there about your arsenic rice. you may never sleep again from the resault. they live but youre even afraid of having rice once or twice a week?
Have you ever heard about India? Come to the south of my country. We eat rice. You might even be scared to see how much we eat of it!. And we also treat patients for Cancer from all over the world. There is steady rise of foreigners visiting India for Medical purposes.What you are saying is a total crap. Idly has rice and its considered safe for babies! I am sure there is some other agenda to this video!
For hundreds, if not thousands of years we ate rice, meat, bread, and drank raw milk, Now, with social media and "studies" it's bad for you. hehehe It basically comes down to moderation and variety. Drink 20 to 30 litres of water every day and tell me how you feel, if you get past the first day.
Considering rice has made up the bulk of the diet for pretty all the east, from the Indian Subcontinent to Japan and Australasia, and to my knowledge there isn't an epidemic of arsenic problems, I think requires more research and corroborating studies
But they've had rice for 8-13 thousand years, have their bodies adapted to it in ways western Europeans haven't? They are a lot more lactose intolerant than western Europeans are so food adaptations like that have happened.
DunderBrother
True, but it means our bodies coped with it to begin with - and we were far worse off in diet and health amd regular meals etc back then than today
it's been a main diet for most of asian people for thousands of year. so i think it's pretty safe to say that their intestine have been adapted, and people who had allergy with it might be have less offspring so their rice allergy gene didn't get passed down so widespread. just like european caucasian who had lactose tolerant since they had more adapted to consume non-human dairy product their intestine slowly adapted to it even though there is people in europe who still had lactose intolerant, but compare to the rest of the world they got more lactose tolerant.
I don't think these scientists are saying "people are suddenly dropping dead of arsenic poisoning and rice is the killer!" They're saying that low but chronic doses of arsenic, similar to what you would be exposed to if you ate rice regularly all your life, puts you at a greater risk of several health detriments. Given that rice has been grown and consumed presumably at the same levels for hundreds/thousands of years (in the cultures you mentioned), there wouldn't suddenly be the epidemic of arsenic problems you're looking for. But you're right, more research is definitely needed and I don't think panic is never truly justified.
Just another thing for press to whine about in the absence of anything else more interesting. Within reason, most stuff we know that is "safe" to eat is just that, safe, and has been for decades. Try hard enough and you'll find that dihydrogen monoxide is one of the strongest solvents around and is indeed lethal in the correct doses, despite its prevalence in our diets.
It is just exaggerated by the wheat, maize, corn lobbies.
We had a similar propaganda against coconut oil by palm oil, corn oil lobbies which all turned out to be false narratives.
about palm oil, it's true. the expansion for palm oil plantation is so fast that u will see so much differencies if u for example come to a spot in the middle of Sumatera or Borneo island in Indonesia in 2000 and u come back to that spot again in 2005. U will see so much differencies.
And it will be bad for the one of countries with the most richest biodiversity. It will be bad for those plants and animals. And also bad for our nature.. and in the end it will be bad for human.
Trust me. I'm Indonesian. I hate those palm oil companies as well. And our corrupt government that legalize and allowed them to destroying our forests. Indonesia is famous as "THE FOREST DESTRUCTOR". Check how fast Indonesia destroying forest per year on google. and most of them for the sake of palm oil plantation.
Bullcrap info... most of the central and SE asian countries consume rice upto three times a day as their primary meal. Yet these countries have lesser ratio of cancer patiens.. live a ling life.. and are pretty smart too.. i think there is another angle for such propaganda..
I suppose you don't believe the high levels of mercury in certain seafoods causes harm either. Let me guess - your kids aren't immunized, are they?
OÄKTA DOPBOK
The way you reply is out of context
"ling life"...that's racist
^go out and find a gf.
Well maybe given the long history of relying on rice (thousands of years) as the main carbohydrate in the diet, Asians and people of Asian descent might have evolved to better tolerate arsenic in their bodies without leading to cancer. The same way that Caucasians are better adapted to lactose than Asians.
Relying on on-line newspaper reports for your information is a false start, and then interviewing a professor of whom we do not know his affiliations other than he is a "professor" leaves this information open to many more questions. Who is paying for his research? Could he be a shill for a rival industry? Has his "research" been published and peer reviewed? The biggest question is just how much rice would one have to eat to experience severe threats to one's life? I for one am not going to forgo eating rice based on this report.
well said
First educated, well written comment here.
Little bit of Googling and he's the only person a lot of these articles are referencing. This channel keeps putting out extremely biased content. They didn't even try and find someone with a different opinion.
I agree.
This is very interesting, but doesn’t Japan eat tons of rice yet have one of the highest life expectancy in the world ?
Clark Chavez yes. I'm a brit who has been living in Japan for 20 year. True, I don't eat rice every day but I do 4 time a week. I also have full medical checks every year with not one illness related to rice. In fact high cholesterol related to eating too much cheese. Bugger, better start a lobby against cheese 😋
Retro Core Damned cheese ahaha, quite frankly, when I saw this as I topic I was surprised as I have never heard of rice being a silent poisoner ! Still though, I refuse to give up rice, never !
Japan grows high quality rice and rarely export huge amounts, chinese and indian rice cannot be compared to, quality wise
This is absolutely misleading and alarmist. You make sure and put up big numbers as you pour large amounts of rice on screen but give nothing to compare it to other than a vague “compared to wheat.” Alright, 20x what? Zero? 10g? 100?
If this is such a danger, why is it so many people can eat it on a regular basis and live full, perfectly healthy lives?
Arsenic had always existed in soil naturally, however, in recent modern times humans have used it in animal agricultural, particularly chicken feed, along with other applications. So now the arsenic levels of some rice is much higher than in previous eras of history. Cook rice like one would pasta, way more water than you need, then rinse well, this,will remove some of the excess arsenic.
I live in Asia and I eat it every day , so far no harm. Mcd far more unhealthy with oily fatty and sugar giving much more harm to the body if eat it every day but not rice
james peden until you got fat and cholestrol
james peden calm down dude! Seems like you really hate Asian people! 😂
james peden oh! so you know, tell me what has been done to my body?
I think the act of getting in my car to go and pick up a takeaway with rice is a far more dangerous proposition. Press will say anything just to get attention. I've lost count of the number of things that were said to be bad for you and now good for you depending on what aspect you measure.
Your arsenic intake has inhibited your ability to think and write correctly - you just don't know it.
Us Bangladeshis eat rice thrice a day. Many can't live without it for a single day. Though we are aware of many health problems associated with regular consumption of rice like diabetese etc, but never before have I heard of rice having such high arsenic level. We need more research being done on this.
I never understood why all these studies regarding food everyone has been eating for centuries have to come out and say it’s “bad for you”. It’s this way for a few months, and then another “study” comes out stating they were wrong.
People have nothing better to do??
In this report, they are talking about the amount of arsenic in the rice. You have to compare that amount in rice with the allowable amount of arsenic in the body. I mean how much arsenic is permissible to be safer in the human body. At a very low amount ( a very low dose), a poison will not have a serious effect to cause any cellular metastasis (or cancer or gene alteration, etc.) ( this is called dose response). Everything is about the dose. Also, we have to consider the population living on rice and their purchasing power. Rice is by far one of the cheapest foods in the world. From public health's ( global public health, not western countries' public health) perspective, you need to consider these factors. Do not be afraid of a report like this. We need a lot of research on a topic to come down to a decision finally. This report should have talked about these factors considering BBC's global popularity.
So, arsenic content in rice is not new, at least to me, as an American consumer. My understanding is that arsenic is the reason we are told to rinse rice carefully in a clean water source--in order to remove excess traces of arsenic in rice dust. From living in India, I learned about soaking rice (usually 30 min to 1 hour), which not only makes it much cook faster and taste better (esp varieties like basmati), but it also reduces arsenic. Arsenic is water soluble, so as long as you pour out the soaking water (now containing some of the arsenic from the rice) and boil it in fresh water, you should be fine.
While arsenic in rice is a serious health concern, it mostly impacts poorer communities where they eat lots of rice but do not regularly wash it--perhaps because they have limited access to clean water. Even the UK food safety guidelines note the risk of arsenic in rice and how to mitigate it by rinsing--It's not something most people need to be alarmed about. And obviously, be cautious of what you feed your infant--too much of any single food is dangerous (see corn and niacin deficiencies), but feeding toddlers carefully prepared rice is likely not a problem.
What could have been an informative piece comes across as scaremongering. Do better, BBC.
They are a lot more subjects that need to be taken into consideration in this research.
It almost seems like most of them are ignored on purpose.
Rice is one of the most popular foods in the world, and the countries that consume it the most doesn't seem to suffer from health issues.
I don't know what to fill about this,
But I've eaten Rice since I was a child, also my younger sister has eaten rice since she was really small and the same goes for my parents and my grandparents. And none of them and I ever had any problem or symptoms caused by arsenic. So I think it's an overblown news to scare people.
What they didn't tell us is whether or not arsenic accumulates in the body. This video is a very simplistic look at an important topic.
3.7 billiong ppl grew up on rice for thousands of years. Got academic papers to back yourself up?
it is ironic that with the growth in milk alternatives, rice, soya, almond, etc.. there has been a flood of articles, programs, documentaries about how these aren't good for us.. no one seems to analyse cows milk though.. diary lobby anyone?
My favorite rices are Basmati, Arborio and plain old white rice. We only eat it about once or twice a month.
In the south east we have eaten rice for decades and no arsenic poisoining😑
I think it has to with rice washing - I know in the east they HEAVILY wash and rinse their rice before cooking.
I think that could be the reason
I smell an anti-imports rat. Any bets that the professor's funding comes from wheat and potato producers?
And me
chrisose - it was me I confess
And climate change we are all gonna die crowd because rice fields are actually pretty harmful to the enviorment.
Yes i smell dirty capitalism
No rice is eatable because almost everywhere in the world people eat rice on regular basis
So at this point there is apparently nothing left that's safe to eat. It's shocking that in this day and age, when there are so many scientific breakthroughs in other fields, there is still no reliable consensus on what we should or should not put into our mouths.
I have eaten half a kilo of cooked brown rice a day for pass 4 years... does this mean i should be dead?...
It's because europeans mostly don't grow rice and import the rice, thus the quality needs to be extended with chemicals, this doesn't happen in Asia
@fralyx Soo this means adding Arsenic? Doesn't he say rice grows in water and water contains Arsenic? Can you elaborate?
You have a source for that?
www.bgs.ac.uk/arsenic/
My family and I have been eating rice for well over 68 years and that’s every single day. None of us have every had any of these problems
This is alarmist. Just wash the rice and soak for a half an hour before boiling. There won't be any arsenic left. This is the proper way of cooking anyway. And has been eaten for centuries in India without any problems.
That's weird because in Japan the average person eats much more rice and seafood than most westerners yet the average person in japan has a higher IQ and a longer and healthier life expectancy.
I eat rice 3 to 4 times a day.
But recently I had developed a behaviour of eating raw rice. This condition is called as pica, which is an eating disorder. The effects were horrible. After I started eating raw rice I suffered from anaemia and developed period cramps and also tooth cavities. I stopped consuming raw rice after it became like this. Now I don't have any of those symptoms. But I eat cooked rice as it's a staple food. So I think the problem is with raw rice and not the cooked rice...
( THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION ACCORDING TO EXPERIENCE )
I m eating rice daily as a staple food as long as I remember I'm 21 and living in New Delhi and I never face any problems
Considering in south east Asia people eat rice every day and still live long?
I frankly don't share the conspiracy theories some users shared but I surely expected some more data: what's the arsenic dosage that can be considered harmful and how often should you eat rice to assume it, other risks related to alternatives and so on. I just found this quite uselessly alarming.
I'm Korean. I dont think it applies to me, or any asians i know.
BUT that doesnt mean that Europeans are the same. Asians have been eating rice for a LONG TIME. So it make sense that Asian have some tolerance built to it. But same cant be said to Europeans or other ethnicity that doest usually consume rice.
Rice has arsenic wheat has gluten... So what shud ppl eat
Well I'm from India,
We eat rice so much but we don't have any problems. I myself use basmati rice and brown rice. But there are no effect with my health
There's no actual science related to the question in the title, only a measure of how much is in rice, not how it affects anyone, I swear the BBC used to be better than this.
So what's a good alternative?
You know, if anything, they should do the study right in the source area where rice is being planted, together with local researcher, first to prevent bias result, second to actually find out the truth, if there really is something that could endanger the consumer, it could help not just Europe, but Asian people as well, third to find out, is it really because the plantation conition, or is it maybe cause by logistic way of storaging or something like that
Right now we live in time where information can really easy to manipulate in order to convince the public, and I'm not trying to bad mouth this video or even BBC, but looking back, many of our aspect of live is built by manipulating information and demonized tactic to control the public
Rice is contain high sugar
dont think there would be 4.5 billion asains if there was a problem with rice
I think they made a typo. I think they meant to say "ricin".
Video failed to provide factual measurements for its claims saying its 5 or 20 times more arsenic than other cereal grains isnt the same as saying dangerous amounts are x grams per kg and rice contains +/- y grams per kg. Without solid information this is bad reporting and mostly scaremongering even if its true
Again it all boils down to too much of anything can be unhealthy for you
Uwais Bangi We in Asia eat 3 meals of rice on average , EVERYDAY and rice are always has been a staple since thousand years ago you’d think we would be overdosed by now and yet here we are
Isnamereally thatimportant I'm South Asian so trust me I know all about rice too we make it in such a way that removes a lot of the arsenic that's why you're still here my statement still stands though if water in excessive quantities is bad for you how can you think rice isn't
We from the overpopulated East Asia say NO! XD
Japanese eat rice on daily basis since birth, and guess what, on average they live far longer than europeans. Explain that
22 yeara eatira it in Panama. Now living in Germany and I miss rise everyday.
Just eat what you want and listen to your body. Your body does a pretty good job at telling you what it wants and what it doesn’t want and your consciousness helps too with what you should eat and shouldn’t eat or what’s good and isn’t good. Food is food. It’s all good in its own moderation which is different for everyone. That’s why I say listen to your body.
My mathematician grandfather ate brown and basanti rice all his life 3 times a day ... He lived for 106 yrs in your face bbc
3 gripes i have with this vid
first, it is known that the food regulations have been always tampered with in the eu, every time some scandals happened they just up the limits and blame one thing.
second, this video states that at the end that 4-5 bowls a day is too much, no one eats that much every day the whole week, not even in asian countries(i think).
third, there no sources in the video description, without that i can simply not believe this single vid(i don't care if you are "the reputable source TM" it's just one of many). also it it makes it hard to see if the said test were done with the raw stuff, washed stuff or cooked stuff...
There is nothing safe to eat anymore for me. Wheat has gluten, oat has nickel, fish has heavy metals and other pollutants, red meat is unhealthy, chicken has antibiotic and hormones, cured meat is carcinogenic, lactose intolerant, allergic to eggs, allergic to greens... and now rice has arsenic. So, I have been eating potatoes. But I think I am putting on weight. My trousers don't fit anymore.
Japanese sure do live long with their healthy diet that includes rice
Propaganda Machine !!!!!
Just because you do not grow enough rice on your soil y cook up BS stories
As a Filipino that eats rice 3x a day this is insulting lol
cant eat anything without fearing cancer
Japan eats rice and its has the highest life expectancy ..
No me and my family have been eating them almost every meal for our lives so if that says something
All Persian food is rice and has been for thousands of years and they are not all dying soo.....
If you are a professor spending your whole career researching a topic like this, and then someone asks you is it important, are you going to say no? (I know Mosley asks should he be concerned, rather than is it an important topic. But to the professor, they are the same question.)
Lol
I'm Asian, you can never make me stop eating rice!
my grandma has been eating rice everyday for 96 years, i guess she should've been dead by this logic ◔_◔
How about you eat rice as opposed to processed rice. Who has a brand of baby rice? You feed babies porridge or regular rice sticky or loose.
Propoganda against basmati rice
I've been eating rice since I was 6 months old, now I'm 28. I'm mutating now starting to grow wings.
You are becoming an angel, shows how deadly rice is
Wait, who thought that white rice was healthy? It's like white flour -- there's almost no nutritional content, and it's mostly filler starch. It's not healthy at all. Brown rice and other untreated varieties are quite nutritious and healthy, though.
I wash my rice all the time! who the heck doesn't wash their rice before cooking!?
Cholesterol yes, arsenic? What are you talking about?
Maybe it’s uncooked rice and they use uncooked rice in rice milk and more thing like that
Asian here. We call cooked rice meal in the language. And when we see how the Europeans make rice cooked but still taste like raw, we laugh and say "foreigners can't into rice".
You don't eat rice, you don't know how to eat or cook rice, you even can't separate cooked and raw rice in your language and yet you are talking about how dangerous they are? Bravo. All I could say is... try hard?
Isn't this lovely? (Martian style)
gees, is there anything we can eat these days that doesnt have a risk of killing us?
Bruh I've been fed with rice since... ever. I should've known that by KNOWING the content of my diet, I would've been smarter.
I am south indian tell abt it
India China have been eating most rice for thousands of years, they don't seem to have any effect.
So?
We have been eating rice as the main staple food for centuries. Arsenic has got nothing on us 😂
This is very misleading. How about those who eat large amount of rice every day. Are two billion Chinese just wrong?
Yea well, I'm training my body for tolerant to toxic anyway..
Anything and everything can kill you... you just need to ingest enough of it.
So i’ve been eating rice since I was at least 4 it’s been 9 years so far and I’m fine and what about people in Majority of Asia?
We've eating rice for every meal for over 5000 years in Sri Lanka .bad ? Nope.
The real question is will it kill me? If no, than I eat it.
The sky is falling!
What a joke
i was wandering what if you go to asia and do your research there about your arsenic rice. you may never sleep again from the resault. they live but youre even afraid of having rice once or twice a week?
Japan eats rice and live the longest!
Have you ever heard about India? Come to the south of my country. We eat rice. You might even be scared to see how much we eat of it!. And we also treat patients for Cancer from all over the world. There is steady rise of foreigners visiting India for Medical purposes.What you are saying is a total crap. Idly has rice and its considered safe for babies! I am sure there is some other agenda to this video!
Betteridge's law of headlines.
No
For hundreds, if not thousands of years we ate rice, meat, bread, and drank raw milk, Now, with social media and "studies" it's bad for you. hehehe It basically comes down to moderation and variety. Drink 20 to 30 litres of water every day and tell me how you feel, if you get past the first day.
Totally rubbish! Tell that to our ancestors!
Oh, well, we all have to die of something...
I have been eating rice since I could eat. Lol
Can BBC please do some research on all the silicone in rice?
Wow rice has silicone solar panel stuff?
I-im still gonna eat rice..
Everything in this world is harmful, except humans
think it will help the spud growers ?
no its not you can leave a dislike and leave the video
Probably eat rice twice a month. I drink a fair bit neither concern me
you won't get me eating it. vile stuff.
Rice is my favourite meal......pl don't ruin that for me!
I swear i saw 1k dislike before