The lawsuit, announced on Tuesday, was the latest salvo in a campaign by the attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, against what he says is a pattern of corporations shortchanging low-wage workers. Since 2011, Mr. Schneiderman has secured more than $26 million for almost 20,000 workers who were bilked of wages.
Rice Diet. The Rice Diet is the basis for a medically-supervised, live-in program designed for rapid weight-loss over a period of 2 to 4 weeks or more, in the treatment of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and renal disease. The program operated as part of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA.
The aim of the group is to prevent the global diabetes epidemic by improving the carbohydrate quality of staple foods in the diets of people from around the world. Refined carbohydrates like white rice have a high glycemic index, which causes rapid spikes in blood sugar that increase diabetes risk. Foods with a lower glycemic index, like brown rice, are digested more slowly, causing a lower and gentler change in blood sugar. But eating white rice and other refined carbohydrates such as white bread is now firmly embedded in many cultures around the world. In China, for example, highly polished white rice has come to be seen as a symbol of affluence and brown rice of poverty.