It's a good question-and one that concerns anyone who cooks with rice. It's true that there's a risk of food poisoning from leftover rice, but the problem lies more in how the rice is cooled and stored rather than in the cooking. Raw rice contains traces of a bacterium known as Bacillus cereus.
OPSS Answer. Insulin-like growth factor type 1âcommonly known as IGF-1âis a hormone produced naturally in the liver and involved in the human bodyâs growth and development. It is present in colostrum, the milk produced by mammals (including humans and cows) the first few days after giving birth.
Published on Sunday, 13 May 2012 15:59. Written by Dave Palumbo. IGF-1, as the name implies, is an extremely anabolic hormone that has insulin-like actions (i.e. it shuttles nutrients, specifically amino acids and glucose, into the muscle cells where they can then be synthesized into new muscle tissue).