Kempner Rice Diet
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Here in these forums, we are all about nutritional standards and recommendations, yet the one outlier we have been amazed by is Dr Kempner's Rice diet. A seemingly rediculous diet, nutrition wise, yet a diet that performed literal miracles in curing the "uncurable" of chronic diseases.
How can you, professionally, reconcile this type of diet with current nutritional standards? In other words, at least in phase one of the program (where some were on it for 6 months or more) they ate white rice (not sure if it was even enriched back then), fruit/fruit juices and pure sugar. Obviously, this is not what anyone would call nutritious and yet the results were amazing. What possibly could have caused such results?
Could it have been the CR? Or maybe the minimization of fat? or the elimination of salt? or the minimization of protein? or even the minimization of micronutrients/phytonutrients? Or maybe it was forcing the body into re-utilization and conservation of nutrients? Or was it simply the weight loss?
Or could it have been a synergistic combination of all the above despite the apparent lack of "nutritiousness"? Or maybe I'm just missing something in how the results were garnered from the means.
How can you, professionally, reconcile this type of diet with current nutritional standards? In other words, at least in phase one of the program (where some were on it for 6 months or more) they ate white rice (not sure if it was even enriched back then), fruit/fruit juices and pure sugar. Obviously, this is not what anyone would call nutritious and yet the results were amazing. What possibly could have caused such results?
Could it have been the CR? Or maybe the minimization of fat? or the elimination of salt? or the minimization of protein? or even the minimization of micronutrients/phytonutrients? Or maybe it was forcing the body into re-utilization and conservation of nutrients? Or was it simply the weight loss?
Or could it have been a synergistic combination of all the above despite the apparent lack of "nutritiousness"? Or maybe I'm just missing something in how the results were garnered from the means.