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 operates as part of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA.
The originator of the Rice Diet was Walter Kempner, born Germany 1903, who joined Duke University’s Department of Medicine in 1934. Kempner investigated the effect of diet on diseases including hypertension and diabetes, and found that they were rarely problems for people using rice as a staple food.
Kempner developed a diet of rice, fruit, juices, sugar, plus vitamin and iron supplements to help people with these and related health problems. The Kempner diet or Rice Diet has been used since 1939 in treating, often with dramatic results, more than 18,000 patients from around the world suffering from diabetes, obesity, heart disease and hypertension.
Available in book form: The Rice Diet Solution by Robert Rosati
The Rice Diet is not like fad diets which come and go, but has developed into a complete, proven and well-respected program for improving health. As well as meals using the Rice Diet, the program provides classes, groups and workshops for stress management and exercise, nutritional lectures, and personal medical supervision.
Participants in the program have a limited menu selection initially, then choose from a range of items comprising fresh fruits and vegetables, grains, fish, and legumes (beans), varied daily. The name Rice Diet is somewhat confusing (the diet origins being the study of rice as a staple), as more than 30 food items are available, including a number of rices.
Day One: Basic Rice Diet
Days Two through Seven: Lacto-Vegetarian Rice Diet
Basic rules of thumb on serving sizes:
Salt is restricted in the Rice Diet, since the body swells with salt (sodium) and water. Most people’s diet contains approx. 4-7 grams of sodium, yet less than half a gram a day is necessary for normal body function.
Salt is a problem for patients with high blood pressure and kidney failure, and this is true also for most people if present in higher quantities in the diet. Salt stimulates the appetite, whereas herbs and spices simply flavor the food.
Limiting salt reduces several health risks, including cholesterol, blood pressure, heart size and weight, as well as reducing the need to medicate for these problems.
As well as being low-salt, the daily diet contains 5 gm or less of fat, about 20 gm of protein, and not more than 150 mg of sodium.
On completion of the program, resources are available for participants to continue with a healthy lifestyle, and to maintain the improved health gained while on the residential program.
The Rice Diet Solution by Robert Rosati (released December 2005)
Rice Diet Program - Official Site
That looks like a pretty delicious program.
YOu should check your facts more carefully before publishing. The Rice Diet does not limit sodium to 150mg, that would be dangerously low. The Diet limits sodium to 300-500mg in the first week, then 500-1000mg afterwards (p.24, The Rice Diet Solution).
The Rice Diet is dangerous. It restricts calories to very low, and destroys the metabolism in the process. If you’ve followed it for awhile, and that takes ENORMOUS discipline, if you go off of it you will gain back all the weight and then some VERY quickly because your metabolism has simply been destroyed. It’s not healthy, even though it was developed BY ACCIDENT by a physician and is still a big money maker at The Rice House. That doesn’t make it good for your long term health–it just makes a a drastic weight loss diet that a lot of people have paid big bucks to follow. Almost no one can follow it without being at The Rice House to the tune of over $5,000 a month.
using this as a tranition diet is fine then moving to exercise and veggies and fruits is awesome but sticking to this diet is DANGEROUS and can cause physical and emotioinal illness (fun fact just like being dangerously over weight or obse) so i say u choose but be smart and don’t live on it for the rest of ur life.
Im pretty sure people hailing from the Asian continent have been eating rice for a very long time, and before the days of mass production and intensive farming, just 1 bowl a day would suffice, albeit a big bowl.
At the moment im on a rotating workout regime, doing moderate weights, jogging every day, and eating 1 bowl of rice, while also taking vits n mins in the morning, with tea and fruit juice thru out the day. And for some reason ive started taking freezing showers aswell in the mornings…
Rice will absorbe some of the fluids in your stomach making you feel full but your not
I’ve had the Honor of meeting some Gentlemen who were on a rice diet for 3 yrs on average- as Prisoners of War of the Japanese. They are still suffering the effects of it today. Read about Bataan or Corrigedor & you will learn about a rice diet.
I have been on this diet before,it was twenty years ago but did not have any problems health-wise.I think my health improved.
i’m looking for former members
i was energizer tweety before(maybe 2 years ago)
looking for New Beginings/yogabell/Traci/rhonda
please e-mail me at lovemytweety@bellsouth.net
hi jane…i’m thinking of joining again
how do i go about that….i’m bluedaffidils/caniac’s sister
please contact me…..thanks debra
so every type of fruit is ok ?