On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, The Getty's wrote:

> Wild rice is not related to grain rice.  But rice, regular rice, does not
> have much gluten, if it has any at all.  But I can tell you one reason that
> rice may be harmful............it has a high glycemic index, meaning it
> raises your insulin very high, just like sugar and potatoes, and this, with
> all the rest of our junk carbohydrate food, is causing an epidemic of Type 2
> Diabetes in our society.

Rice is one of the paradoxical foods that has a high glycemic
index but a moderate insulin index.  See
http://venus.nildram.co.uk/veganmc/insulin.htm .  As you see from
the table, the insulin index of brown rice is about the same as
that for fish.  White rice is higher, but not as high as its
glycemic index would lead one to predict.  I wonder what the
insulin index of wild rice might be.

Todd Moody
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