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Study links white rice consumption to diabetes

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PARIS - Health researchers said on Thursday they had found a troubling link between higher consumption ofriceand Type 2 diabetes, a disease that in some countries is becoming an epidemic.

Further work is need to probe the apparent association and diets that are notoriously high in sugar and fats should remain on the no-go list, they cautioned.

"What we've found iswhitericeis likely to increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes, especially at high consumption levels such as in Asian populations," Qi Sun of the Harvard School of Public Health told AFP.

"But at the same time people should pay close attention to the other things they eat.

"It's very important to address not just a single food but the whole pattern of consumption."

In the British Medical Journal (BMJ), Sun's team said the link emerged from an analysis of four previously published studies, carried out in China, Japan, Australia and the United States.

These studies followed 350,000 people over a timescale from four to 22 years. More than 13,000 people developed Type 2 diabetes.

In the studies carried out in China and Japan, those who ate mostricewere 55 percent likelier to develop the disease than those who ate least. In the United States and Australia, where consumption ofriceis far lower, the difference was 12 percent.

Participants in the two Asian countries ate three or four servings ofricea day on average, compared to just one or two servings a week in the Western countries.

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