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The Rice Diet (for the "nearly dead")
- Walter Kempner, MD – Founder of the Rice Diet. Kempner’s Rice Diet program began at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in 1939. The treatment was a simple therapy of white rice, fruit, juice, and sugar, and was reserved for only the most seriously ill patients. Although low-tech, the benefits of the Rice Diet far exceed those of any drug or surgery ever prescribed for chronic conditions, including coronary artery disease, heart and kidney failure, hypertension, diabetes, arthritis, and obesity.
- Components:
- Dry rice of 250 to 350 grams daily. The rice is boiled or steamed in water without salt, milk or fat.
- Fruit and fruit juices are allowed. Also dried fruits.
- White sugar of 100 grams daily.
- Vitamin supplements. (This diet needs Vitamin A and C, since it is deficient in both. This is not the case with the potato diet.)
- No avocados, dates, nuts, tomatoes, or vegetable juices.
- Once health is returned, small amounts of non-leguminous vegetables, potatoes may be added.
- The primary benefits of the Rice Diet are accomplished by easing the workload on compromised tissues and organs by providing them with clean-burning energy from carbohydrates and avoiding common dietary poisons such as salt, fat, cholesterol, and animal protein. In such a supportive environment the body’s healing powers can outpace the damages once caused by unhealthy foods. Dr. Kempner added multivitamins, which may be necessary because of all the refined foods served. Using whole foods (specifically the McDougall starch-based diet), rather than white rice and sugar, provides all necessary vitamins and minerals. No supplements are recommended other than vitamin B12.
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