Studies from Penn State University are exciting and flooding the Internet with news about whole grains and in particular brown rice and the effects on belly fat. At this time there are still a lot...

Studies from Penn State University are exciting and flooding the Internet with news about whole grains and in particular brown rice and the effects on belly fat. At this time there are still a lot of “maybes” in the pool of answers, but the study seems to indicate that belly fat is one of the top fats dropped with the use of whole grains.

Whole grains help by lowering blood levels of C-reactive protein (CRP). This CRP is an inflammatory that increases risk of high blood sugar and thus heart trouble. By getting these out of the body, the body is able to continue to process other items on out without slowing down.

The Pen State study was conducted with fifty men and women. They were all obease and had fat centrally located in the belly. Calories were cut of the diet, but some of the participants were told to make sure that all their grain serviers came from whole grains such as whole-grain cereal, oatmeal and brown rice. The other group was told to use refined grains such as white bread and foods made out of flour. At the end of the twelve week period both groups had lost weight. However, the group with brown rice and whole grains lost more belly fat and their CRP had decreased by thirty-eight percent.

Further studies are showing that brown rice diets concerntrate on belly fat. In other words diets filled with daily amounts of brown rice and other whole grains work belly fat better than diets simply targeting weight loss. Several sites on the Internet are promoting the “Brown Rice Diet” with suggestions of fruite, grains, vegetables, beans and olive oil. These diets even allow for non-fat dairy and seafood in them.

While the above studies are new it may surprise you to know how old the “Rice Diet” is. Walter Kempner developed the diet while working at Duke University. He tested the diet, but his focus was on hypertension at the time. He soon found that it also helped diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Kempner also wanted to focus, as he wrote, on “bringing oxygen to tissues”. His method had several good health benefits and not the least of them was losing belly fat, though he was not concerned with this at the time. Today, Kempner might have focused more on belly fat considering the world’s population and problems with belly fat, but not when he was working. Kempner, born in 1903, conducted his research at Duke in 1934 and well before the belly fat problems of our generation.

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