Stabilized Rice Bran and its Powerful Nutritional Benefits

Stabilized Rice Bran (n.): A form of rice bran with easy-to-digest nutrient content that
clinical trials have shown can help treat diabetes, high cholesterol, joint pain, and more.

Of course, there's a lot more to the story than that. The story starts on a rice paddy in the
Far East. Rice is eaten in more places -- and in more volume -- than any other staple food
on earth. Until Westerners came to Japan, they ate their rice brown, with the bran still on
the kernel.

When the West started trading in Japan we brought with us white flour, white breads, and
the association between white and good. We also brought the technology needed to
separate the bran from the kernel and produce genuinely white rice.

The white rice phenomenon spread across Japan like wildfire,

and rice bran went the way of the dodo, being used as animal
feed and land fill for decades. The result?

In the late 1880’s Japanese navy crewmen, trying to survive on

white rice and little else for months at sea developed beriberi.
Beriberi is a nutritional deficiency of vitamin B1 and many Japanese sailors needlessly
died.

If they had kept the bran they could have lived, that's because two-thirds of the nutritive
power of rice is in the bran. By making white rice, you also make rice that can't power
the human body as well. If there were a way to make rice bran, independently of the
high-carb kernel, something that you could transport, store, prepare, and eat, it would be
a huge breakthrough in world nutrition.

And now there is…

Thanks to a new patented extrusion process, Stabilized Rice Bran is available through
Nussentials.com. Many health experts agree that Stabilized Rice Bran is a powerful
source for easy-to-absorb phytonutrients and antioxidants.

Especially promising for diabetics, Stabilized Rice Bran has been shown to reduce fasting
glucose levels by 20-30%! As a side benefit, SRB was also shown to reduce LDL
cholesterol, total cholesterol, and triglyceride levels in some test subjects.

The phytonutrient power of Stabilized Rice Bran is striking in its own right, as well.
Phytosterols -- the chemicals that make plant cells firm enough to stand upright -- have a
lot of powerful functions in the human body.

They block the absorption of dietary cholesterol in the intestines, they are powerful anti-
inflammatory agents, they inhibit abnormal cell growth (which can help to prevent
cancer), and they have been shown to enhance your immune system function as well.
 And antioxidants -- there are more than 100 different antioxidants in
Stabilized Rice Bran. If you're not already familiar with antioxidants
and why you love them, here it is in a nutshell (bran shell?): oxygen is
constantly trying to merge with every cell in your body.

When that happens, free radicals form, and they attack your cells and
cause damage that cumulatively results in premature aging, organ
damage, and more. Antioxidants prevent oxygen from merging with your cells, helping
to prevent free radicals, thus greatly improving your health over a lifetime.

The thing about antioxidants is that having large amounts of the same antioxidant is not
terribly effective, but many different antioxidants in small amounts form a synergetic
network that can help keep your body younger, stronger and healthier. That kind of
complex cocktail of antioxidants is exactly what Stabilized Rice Bran brings to the table.

If you don't have the time or resources to add brown rice to your diet -- or you're
watching your carbs (like you should!), add Stabilized Rice Bran products from
Nussentials to your diet and your body will love you back.

These statements have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. These products are not intended to
diagnose, cure or prevent any disease.

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