Rice Diet
Contents
Summary
supplement summary
Top 3 Uses
- Hypertension
- use 2
- use 3
How To Do It
Inclusions
foods to eat
Exclusions
foods to avoid
Important Notes
additional information, e.g. safety concerns
Description
The Rice Diet started as a radical treatment for malignant hypertension before the advent of antihypertensive drugs; the original diet included strict dietary restriction and hospitalization for monitoring. Some contemporary versions have been greatly relaxed, and have been described as fad diets.[1]
Physiological Impact
- Occasional patients developed life threatening electrolyte imbalances, so Kempner insisted that all patients begin by being hospitalized for several weeks of close observation and monitoring of electrolyte levels. [1]
- quickly stop the leaky arterioles
- lower increased intracranial pressure
- reduce heart size
- reverse the ECG changes
- reverse heart failure
- reduce weight
- markedly improve diabetes (when present) in patients with accelerated hypertension[1]
Success Rate
His third published report [4], in February 1945, reported results from a mixed group of 213 patients, of whom 83 had primary kidney disease (glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis, and nephrolithiasis) and the remainder, hypertensive vascular disease. The diet was ineffective in 75 of these patients, including 27 who were in critical condition before the diet was begun. But in 138 patients the diet proved beneficial under careful medical supervision. Several other reports from Kempner indicate similar results: about two thirds of the patients were able to reduce the blood pressure by at least 20 mm Hg, sustained over several months.
- It appears that the rice diet reverses ECG changes in about 50% of cases with abnormalities of the QRS-T angle (axis deviation and T-wave changes)