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>>234704 But what do you mean by 'processed'? Where rice is concerned, humans have a ~10,000 history of hulling, milling, grinding, washing, boiling, straining, frying, baking, and molding the stuff.
As a group, Westerners started becoming generally overweight about 70 years ago. As a group, Asians have been eating white rice since... well, since agriculture was invented. So it's obviously not the process of milling brown rice into white rice that magically causes people to become fat.
My main point, though, is that the blanket term 'processed' is used way too much around here. And it's frequently used with an implication that 'processing' is some sinister, recent technology foisted upon our poor helpless bodies by evil companies like Nabisco, Kraft, and ADM.
Are some additions to food bad? Yes. Are some of these companies evil? Yes. But 'processing' can mean anything from a caveman peeling an onion to McDonalds whipping water, milk solids and carrageenan into a delicious milkshake.
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