While potatoes are technically a vegetable, your body treats them more like rice or bread because of their high starch content.

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Eating rice once a day can increase arsenic levels in the body by up to 44 percent , according to new research from Consumer Reports.

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The people are said to have thrown balls of zongzi (cooked rice) into the river to discourage the fish from eating his body.

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The special treatment begins with a warm exfoliating cream made with cherry blossom rice powder, followed by an exfoliating massage, foot massage and full-body massage using melted Shea butter.

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Purists point to many giant breweries' use of "adjuncts, " a kind of "beer helper" of syrups and unmalted (meaning ungerminated) grains like rice and corn that, among other things, thins the brew's body and boosts its alcohol level on the cheap.

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