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By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.
DEAR DR. LAMB - A
friend has recently been put
on a strange diet by a doctor
of good reputation, and it
makes little sense to me. I
understand it was given for
the purpose of fluid in the
body and for a kidney condi
tion. I’d like to try it for the
fluid condition but hesitate to
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Dr. Lamb
The ‘rice diet’ can be helpful
do anything so drastic. Noth
ing but cooked rice and
orange juice for every meal
for four or five days.
Is it worth the try and has it
any benefit for the system?
Seems very unbalanced to
me, and I try to balance my
diet to the best of my
knowledge as I cannot take
drugs too well without side
effects.
DEAR READER - There
are many “strange diets”
used for special medical
problems that should never
be used by the public without
a doctor’s recommendation.
The diet you speak of is a
variation of the ‘‘rice diet.” It
was popularized by Dr.
Walter Kempner at Duke
University years ago. In its
original form it included only
limited amounts of rice and
fruit.
The rice diet has two big
advantages, it is low in salt
and low in protein. You might
wonder what advantage
there would be to having a
low protein diet. If you have
kidney disease you some
times have trouble.eliminat
ing urea, the ammonia part
of amino acids in the excess
protein most people eat. It is
also low in calories and can
be used as a weight reducing
diet. Like other such diets it
can make you very weak.
You need to take vitamins
and minerals if you are on
such a diet more than a few
days.
The rice diet was used very
successfully in many patients
with high blood pressure in
the days when we had few, if
any, effective medicines to
offer for this problem. With
new medicines it is rarely
used. Still it does have its
place in medical problems
associated with retention of
salt, kidney problems, and
high blood The
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chief value of the diet has
been demonstrated to be its
extremely low sodium con
tent (low salt).
Since neither rice nor fruit
contain any major amount of
fat and neither contain any
cholesterol, it is truly a low
fat, low-cholesterol diet. It is
an exhausting diet in many
respects. It is certainly not
something I could ever ad
vise anyone to take just to
manage normal cyclic
changes in fluid retention.
Absolutely no one should be
on this diet unless the doctor
has recommended it for a
particular problem. How
ever, if I had a patienj. who
could not be managed prop-
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erly with medicines and a
more general diet, I would
give it serious consideration.
You have to limit your
calories on this diet to lose
weight. Calories do count. I
always remember one of my
patients I had told to eat
nothing but rice and fruit in
the hopes of controlling his
weight and heart disease
problems. He did not lose
weight. So I asked him,
“Alan, what have you been
eating?” He replied, “Just
what you told me, doc. Just
rice and fruit, rice and fruit.”
Being of a suspicious
nature, I asked him, “what
kind of fruit?” “Bananas,
doc.”
“How many bananas,
Alan?”
“Oh, I’ve just been giving
them hell.” When the fruit
was limited, his weight began
to disappear.
Send your questions to Dr.
Lamb, in care of this newspa
per, P.O. Box 1551, Radio City
Station, New York, N.Y.
10019. For a copy of Dr.
Lamb’s booklet on losing
weight, send 50 cents to the
same address and ask for the
“Losing Weight” booklet.
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