Tune Down and Bone Up on Brown Rice

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Dear ers,

I have recently added a bowl of Organic Jasmine Brown Rice to my

nutritional plan each day because of some benefits I wish to keep

and maintain. Like that it has Magnesium in it, good for muscles and

nerves. (I also love the smell while it's cooking)

I'd like to know if anyone else faithfully follows a nutritional

plan of brown rice, how it helps you, what type of brown rice, and

anything else, except recipies please, lol.

I realize this brown rice 'thing' is nothing new - we ate it at home

growing up, looking back on it all, I loved it, and also later in

college we'd make brown rice in the dorm instead of eat in the

cafeteria. As far back as I can remember, even my sporadic attempts

eating brown rice were beneficial. ~ Gretchen

Somewhere in my searching I also discovered that Brown Rice is good

for keeping stress levels low. I'm all for a Zero Stress Level.

This is just one site of many.

http://healthylazy.tribe.net/thread/477eaf51-e9e0-4465-874d-

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Magnesium, another nutrient for which brown rice is a good source,

has been shown in studies to be helpful for reducing the severity of

asthma, lowering high blood pressure, reducing the frequency of

migraine headaches, and reducing the risk of heart attack and

stroke. How does magnesium accomplish all this? Magnesium helps

regulate nerve and muscle tone by balancing the action of calcium.

In many nerve cells, magnesium serves as Nature's own calcium

channel blocker, preventing calcium from rushing into the nerve cell

and activating the nerve. By blocking calcium's entry, magnesium

keeps our nerves (and the blood vessels and muscles they ennervate)

relaxed. If our diet provides us with too little magnesium, however,

calcium can gain free entry, and nerve cells can become

overactivated, sending too many messages and causing excessive

contraction. Insufficient magnesium can thus contribute to high

blood pressure, muscle spasms (including spasms of the heart muscle

or the spasms of the airways symptomatic of asthma), and migraine

headaches, as well as muscle cramps, tension, soreness and fatigue.