When I was a child, my mother often told me that she had to eat brown rice every day when she was young. What she meant was that since her family was so poor, they couldn't afford to buy white rice (the food for wealthy people). As a child, my mother was very embarrassed to open her lunch box during lunch hour at school. She told me how much she envied her wealthier classmates who brought white rice to school.

Brown rice was often associated with poverty in Japan many years ago, or at least in my parents' time, growing up during World War II. In modern days, more and more people are becoming familiar with the health benefit of brown rice. Most Americans today, if they are even slightly interested in healthy lifestyle, would probably immediately associate brown rice with healthy foods.

Brown rice provides many nutrients, such as B-Vitamins, manganese, phosphorus, iron, essential fatty acids, and fiber. When all the outer layers of brown rice are stripped away, you're left with white rice. This form of rice is soft and fluffy when it is cooked, but through processing, a lot of the important nutrients found in brown rice are gone. Such refined white rice is hard to provide various nutrients. White rice may be the epitome of modern agricultural technology, but doesn't seem to contribute to the health of animals living on this planet.

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