Died from eating brown rice to cure cancer

Doctors at K Hospital recently recommended that many patients diagnosed with early-stage cancer refused surgery and radiation therapy to return home and treat themselves by eating brown rice.

After a while, the serious illness returned to the hospital, but it was too late. The story of eating medicinal rice to cure cancer that was popular a year ago has been confirmed by scientists to be baseless, but many people still blindly believe it.

Treat cancer with rice?

According to Ms. Thu Yen (Quang Ninh), her mother had stomach cancer and was diagnosed by doctors at K Hospital as being in the early stages, and only needed surgery to be completely cured. Hearing that she had to undergo surgery, her mother was very scared and insisted on going home to treat herself. A friend told her that she only needed to eat red dragon brown rice, herbal rice... to be able to cure stomach cancer.

Like a drowning person clutching at straws, her mother switched to eating brown rice, even drinking brown rice water instead of water every day. A few months later, seeing her mother lose a lot of weight, her weaker friend advised her to stop eating brown rice, but she refused to listen.

Until one day, my mother had a stomachache, vomited blood, and rushed her to the emergency room. I couldn't believe it when the doctor said that the stomach cancer had metastasized and there was no cure. "I regretted it so much. If I had convinced my mother to get treatment sooner, she wouldn't have died like this..." - Ms. Yen said, crying.

The case of Minh Thuan’s father (Hung Yen) is similar. After learning that he had a tumor in his colon, the doctor advised surgery and chemotherapy to help him live a healthy life because the tumor was still small. Thinking that this disease would quickly lead to death, he did not agree to treatment.

Back home, he started a campaign to eat herbal rice after seeing an advertisement online saying that herbal rice could cure cancer, especially digestive tract cancers, and that this rice could "wipe out" tumors.

After eating herbal rice for months, he thought his illness would disappear, but unexpectedly, he found it increasingly difficult to defecate, not going to the toilet for weeks, and having constant stomach pain. His children rushed him to the hospital, but the tumor had grown so large that it was blocking his colon, making it impossible to defecate, and there was a high risk of intestinal rupture. He immediately had to go under the knife to have his colon removed, and he was given an artificial anus, with only a few months left to live. “Just because I believed in the baseless advertisements about herbal rice, my father lost his life…” – Mr. Thuan lamented.

The above are just 2 of many cases of blindly believing in eating "miracle" rice that can cure cancer, leading to sad endings. Just go to the K Hospital and hang out with the patients' families to see that there are countless ways to cure cancer spread by word of mouth. Eating brown rice and medicinal rice is the way that almost all patients eagerly believe in. They do not know that the unscientific cancer treatment methods have unintentionally made them surrender to cancer.

There are many cancer patients who believe that eating brown rice can cure cancer.

Rice is not medicine

Prof. Dr. Vo Tong Xuan, a leading expert on rice plants, said: Medicinal rice contains many vitamins and nutrients, and is very good for health when used. Currently, many types of rice are advertised to cure cancer, which is an exaggeration. Rice is not a medicine, but only has the properties of supporting and supplementing nutrients for the body.

According to scientific documents, brown rice has a high nutritional content, especially a large amount of anthocyanin. Anthocyanin in medicinal rice is a compound with many valuable biological activities, has high antioxidant capacity, has the effect of reducing and preventing atherosclerosis, preventing type 2 diabetes... However, whether medicinal rice has the ability to cure cancer or not, there is still no document or project in the world to research and prove.

According to Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Lam, Nutritionist, brown rice is essentially rice that only has the outer husk removed, leaving the bran layer intact inside, so it still retains fiber and other important nutrients such as vitamins, calcium, iron, zinc and protein.

Especially when the method of eating brown rice and sesame salt to cure diseases was considered a research work of a Japanese professor recognized by the World Health Organization, the movement of eating this food quickly spread to many countries. However, up to this point, there has been no scientific work in the world that confirms that brown rice has the ability to prevent cancer.

Associate Professor Dr. Lam also noted that brown rice is only a starch that provides part of the nutrients, and it is still necessary to supplement it with other food groups such as food groups rich in protein, lipids, vegetables and fruits to provide enough vitamins and minerals for the body. Even for normal healthy people, not to mention cancer patients, abusing brown rice every day without additional nutrients for a long time can be harmful, causing the body to be seriously weakened due to the lack of substances that brown rice does not have.

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