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The way you are cooking rice could be bad for your health. Rice contains traces of the poison arsenic because of industrial toxins and pesticides in the soil.

Chronic exposure to the toxin has been linked to a range of problems including diabetes and cancer.

But by cooking rice with more water you can flush away more of the poison.

Dr. Michael Mosley from the 麻豆约拍's Trust Me I'm A Doctor:

"I was put in touch with a professor who studies arsenic which is a heavy metal and a poison and there are high levels in rice because of the way it is grown - about 50 times more than in wheat.

"The best way to cook it is with 5 parts of water to one of rice which cuts the arsenic content by about 50%.

"It's a bit like air pollution or smoking, it's better if you have clean air than polluted air and children under the age of 2 are particularly vulnerable to arsenic because their brain is developing."