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Brown Rice 101

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More than half the world’s population eats rice as the primary dietary staple and brown rice runs at the head of the pack as a nutritional powerhouse. Its superiority to the poor stripped-down white version is marked: Just one cup of brown rice has 3½ grams of fiber (16% of your daily value of fiber and two of the three daily recommended servings of whole grain). Compare that to one cup of white rice, which has less than one gram of fiber.
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Indian-style Brown Rice Vegetable Pulao with Cucumber Salad

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Best made with brown basmati rice, this Indian-style pulao can use any combination of vegetables including potatoes, peppers, parsnips, mushrooms and zucchini.

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Brown Rice Cranberry Salad

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This quick brown rice salad is perfect as a vegetarian main course or a light summer side dish.

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Should you cleanse?

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Another new year. Another vow to lose the weight, eat better, get healthy. Good for you. But are you going to do it the right way? We thought we’d take a look at cleanses, which many use as a quick way to drop the pounds, and give you a little food for thought.

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Year-End Inventory: How’d You Do?

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No, I don’t mean the stuff sitting around the house that needs to get thrown out. Or the bills. I mean you. Each year at this time, I sit down and do an accounting of the year. What worked? What didn’t? What am I creating for next year? I am utterly prone to look at [...]

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