posted by Suzie Chhouk
Since the Industrial Revolution, food production has become a high-yielding science. Now survival is not based on how many high calorie foods we can get our hands on because sugars and fats are so accessible now. One health-related effect we've seen from this is the rise of obesity.
So, scientists have been working again to try to develop food that can best benefit our new diets. Sudhair A. James, College of Chemical Sciences (Sri Lanka), explains how they have developed a new, simple way to cook rice that could cut the number of calories absorbed by the body by more than half. The trick is a using "resistant starch" which is much more difficult for the body to digest and thus, much more difficult to keep the calories.
from American Chemical Society
So, scientists have been working again to try to develop food that can best benefit our new diets. Sudhair A. James, College of Chemical Sciences (Sri Lanka), explains how they have developed a new, simple way to cook rice that could cut the number of calories absorbed by the body by more than half. The trick is a using "resistant starch" which is much more difficult for the body to digest and thus, much more difficult to keep the calories.
from American Chemical Society