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Rice N Shine For A Healthier Diet

by Paula Sanders

Improving your diet can be the first step towards a healthier life with a lifestyle that improves health and fitness. One way to improve your diet is to skip the snacks between meals and instead have meal replacement drinks when you feel hungry. Rice n shine is a meal replacement drink that comes in three flavors, Dutch chocolate, vanilla or original flavors.

The process by which stabilized rice bran is used for Rice N Shine is described in her patent, as issued by the United States government. Rice N Shine is made using a delivery system that recovers nutrients from derivatives of the rice bran. These nutrients provide protein, minerals, and vitamins people need to stay healthy, as well as enzymes proven to help relieve the pain and mobility loss caused by joint inflammation.

Patty McPeak herself received the patent five years ago, and since then she has marketed this product over the internet and through commercials in various media. She genuinely believes that this product will help anyone who wants to eat a healthier diet in the future.

According to the information packs produced by her company, around seventy percent of the world's population is dependent on rice as a staple food. However, traditional milling processes have the effect of destroying just over sixty percent of the nutrients through the removal of the rice bran alone. Altogether this amounts to well over 60 million metric tons very year.

This is a more detailed explanation of the process. In traditional milling, an enzyme is used that renders the outer husk of the rice grain useless hours after the milling process starts, since only the white grain of rice is kept for consumption. This is a waste of the husk's protein, vitamins, and minerals.

Most of the nutrients in rice, over sixty-five percent, are found in the bran. Patty McPeak uses a patented manufacturing process to stabilize rice bran, preserving these highly concentrated nutrients and proteins. With this new technology, what was once an agricultural by-product is now able to be converted into a healthy new food product that they have named rice n shine.

Patty McPeak has created a selection of highly nutritious meal replacement drinks with the unique health benefits of stabilized rice bran. The proteins, vitamins, minerals and enzymes in Rice N Shine can add to any diet and may even ease joint pain and stiffness from inflammation. A patented process retains at least 65% of the nutrients in the rice bran and stabilizes them so that all three flavors, the original, vanilla and Dutch chocolate are nutrient rich in an easy to use form conveniently marketed over the internet. This product can provide a means for meal replacement to lose weight or for general health benefits.

Published October 9th, 2007

Filed in Health, Weight Loss