Higher food prices shine ray of hope on rice industry

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capone at 06:31 PM JST - 10th June

"saying concentration at work will be improved if it is eaten as breakfast"...and this is true, except for one fact: its total bulls**t...carbs tend to make you more sluggish, not more alert
MichaelJP at 09:11 PM JST - 10th June

In the morning, a little bit of juice will get you started, but you need protein for slow-release energy throughout the day. Worse, white rice has a very high GI value, spiking blood sugar levels and contributing to a range of health problems later in life.
borscht at 10:15 PM JST - 10th June

Does the government have to abide by truth in advertising laws or can they make crap up like 'concentration at work will improve if you eat rice for breakfast'?

The glycemic index, invented in 1981 by David Jenkins and Thomas Wolever of the University of Toronto, is a new system for classifying carbohydrate-containing foods, according to how fast they raise blood-glucose levels inside the body. In simple terms, a food with a higher glycemic value raises blood glucose faster and is less beneficial to blood-sugar control than a food which scores lower.

http://www.carbs-information.com/glycemic-index.htm

White rice is, as MichaelJP pointed out, high on the glycemic index. It might give you a quick energy rush but each rush comes with a crash and then your concentration at work will be a lot less.
borscht at 10:17 PM JST - 10th June

‘‘In the face of higher food prices, more and more consumers are sending their family members to work or school with home-prepared packed lunches and eating at home,"

This is good for the health of the whole family. Except mom who has to get up earlier to make all those bentos.
GW at 09:22 AM JST - 11th June

Yes white rice are actually empty calories & really isnt that great a food stuff, if they didnt polish the damn stuff down to tiny white specks you wud at get some vitamins, I eat the stuff all the time but its certainly not a great health food, kind like coffee a quick pick me up.

But dont tell the Japanese it will totally crush them, or the few that wud concede the truth
fds at 11:25 AM JST - 11th June

don't know if this is true or not but i've heard that people in china are also buying japanese rice even though it is more expensive as the quality control is better than local.
capone at 12:13 PM JST - 11th June

borscht: since the study was released in 1981, its gonna take just a couple more years before it reaches japan
capone at 12:34 PM JST - 11th June

GW: yeah the japanese are real good at polishing it, aren't they
thepro at 02:55 PM JST - 11th June

Japanese rice contains more breakfast energy than foreign rice
chardk1 at 06:09 PM JST - 11th June

What, no riot over high grain prices? Oh right, this is Japan Today, not Korea Today. My bad
NICOLE77 at 07:50 PM JST - 11th June

I think its a great idea that children will eat more rice at school... got to be better than sugar-filled MELON bread.

But I do hope that a trend to BROWN rice / BROWN bread happens soon...
Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land at 12:55 AM JST - 12th June

Forget rice, if I don't get my miso soup for breakfast, I'm a mess.
capone at 05:29 PM JST - 12th June

haha sugar-filled melon bread ? how disgusting
frontandcentre at 09:57 AM JST - 13th June

Rising prices for rice are great justification for continuing to subsidise the extreme inefficiency of the Japanese rice growing sector - or possibly an excuse for reducing subsidies while allowing producers to take a bigger cut. Anything that perpetuates the deluded fiction that Japan could be self-sufficient in food...
OhioDonna at 10:36 PM JST - 17th June

Foreign rice! Have you ever eaten good ol' Lousiana grown rice. (I do not mean the overly processed rice.) MMM good.