And when you don’t have enough Thiamine, your brain doesn’t work as well, which can lead to bad decisions. History is full of examples where people suffered greatly from Thiamine deficiency due to eating processed white rice.
White rice also has a lot more arsenic than other grains. If you’re going to eat it, you should rinse it several times and dump out the water after it boils. This can reduce the arsenic by a good amount, but it also washes away some of the water-soluble Thiamine. So, even with
