Rice "hides" a danger to the human body

Rice, a grain widely used throughout the world as an essential component of human nutrition, can accumulate large amounts of arsenic and other toxins, most of which enter the composition. Eurek Alert Tuesday, citing expert biologists who recently participated in a conference of the Society for Risk Analysisi in New Orleans, United States

Scientists warn that a high level of lead, arsenic and many other elements present in drinking water, plumbing, dishes and other household objects are often disturbed by serious everyday life in the brain and the human body. With regard to arsenic in particular, experts point out that the main source of this toxin is found in groundwater.

Given the significant contamination of these waters, a team of scientists from Indiana University in the United States decided to investigate how high levels of arsenic and other substances affect the rice fields, which represent the most important cultivation activities in China, India and other countries of South and East Asia.

For the survey, the experts badyzed the data collected. by the authors of 143 scientific articles on the metabolism of arsenic and its behavior in the human body and in different foods. They then selected ten more detailed studies on the subject, comparing them to their experimental results.

Scientists have found that rice grains accumulate large amounts of arsenic, which remain mostly in its pulp as an inorganic compound, without being processed by the factory.

On average, about 70-80% of arsenic pbades into the waters of the plant without undergoing any change, ie a proportion similar to this one enters directly in the body of people and animals that ingest it.

Scientists hope that in the near future, besides badessing the arsenic content of ordinary rice grains and determining the amount of this toxic substance entering the body. body, can still determine how it affects the human body.