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The Rice Diet Solution: The World-Famous Low-Sodium, Good-Carb, Detox Diet for Quick and Lasting Weight Loss Kindle Edition

by Kitty Gurkin Rosati (Author), Robert Rosati (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Can you really lose twenty pounds in a month? Will you really keep it off this time? With The Rice Diet Solution, you will! The Rice Diet Program has been helping dieters successfully lose weight since 1939. Now in book form, this world-renowned weight-loss method can help you change the way you eat forever.

The Rice Diet Program in Durham, North Carolina, was one of the first medical facilities in America to use diet as the primary way to treat disease. On this high-complex-carb, low-fat, and low-sodium whole-foods diet, “Ricers” lose weight faster, more safely, and more effectively than people on any other diet. Men lose on average twenty-eight to thirty pounds and women on average nineteen to twenty pounds per month! The Rice Diet also detoxes your body, ridding it of excess water weight and toxins from processed foods and the environment. The program's results have been documented by extensive studies and confirmed by thousands of people who report amazing weight loss, as well as immediate improvement in such conditions as heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension.

Here’s how it works: The Rice Diet strictly limits salt and sodium-rich ingredients. Salt, like refined sugar, is an appetite stimulant, so when you reduce salt intake, you lose water weight and are less inclined to overeat. The Rice Diet also limits saturated fats and instead relies on carbohydrates (fruits, vegetables, grains, and beans) as the main source of nutrition. The fiber cleanses your system and satisfies you so you feel full quickly. The Rice Diet makes it easy to limit calories; when you’re eating foods that truly satisfy your hunger, it’s a challenge to eat 1,500 calories per day!

To make it easy to follow the program, The Rice Diet Solution includes hundreds of tasty, filling, easy-to-prepare recipes—some from the Rice House kitchen, others inspired by major chefs and adapted to Rice Diet standards.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000GCFXWM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster (June 6 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0743289838
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best diet out there!
Reviewed in Canada on March 11, 2016
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Smart diet. Amazing. Been on it 3 days and lost 5 pounds. Don't feel hungry. Feel better about myself. Losing weight is very difficult for me and because I love starches and fruits this is the diet for me. Also, because I have gallbladder disease and it's a low fat, diet it works! :)
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Bow Dragonfly
5.0 out of 5 stars arrived in good condition. Much appreciated
Reviewed in Canada on October 8, 2016
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As promised, arrived in good condition. Much appreciated.
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Glenn Myers
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in Canada on May 29, 2018
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good read, but carbs make me fat so..........
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InLoveWithLife
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on August 25, 2014
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The rice diet is very easy to follow and goes well with the high carbohydrate low fat ideology.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in Canada on January 24, 2016
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Excellent
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Dave Jacobs
1.0 out of 5 stars Your Guide To Diabetes And Heart Disease.
Reviewed in Canada on April 17, 2018
High carb low fat diet is a slow and painful death! It's the reason why North Americans are so fat and sick in the first place. Eat plenty of fats, especially good healthy fats, cut down on carbs as much as possible, run like hell from anything that tastes sweet, and run like hell from this century old quackery that's killed millions of people. Just find some old pictures of people and see how many people were fat back in the day compared to now, and find out what they were eating, because what you are eating now (high carb, low fat) has been tried and failed too many times.
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T.M.
5.0 out of 5 stars It's about lifestyle
Reviewed in Canada on May 31, 2006
I practiced this book before I actually read it. It's like a combination of a lifestyle changing book 'Can We Live 150' with yoga philosophy. I started yoga just two months ago. The most changes in my lifestyle came about as a result of reading Can we live 150. Now that I'm reading The Rice Diet it feels to me like a repetition of something that I have already experienced on my own. Great book nonetheless!
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Martin
5.0 out of 5 stars Simple rice plan
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 5, 2023
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Easy to follow and if you stick with it you will lose weight.
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5.0 out of 5 stars It's Working!
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2010
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I lost 70 lbs on the McDougall diet, kept it off for several years. A new job and some habit changes meant 30 lbs gained in about 3 years. Now I've got a wedding coming up in 2 months, and in true form, waiting til the last minute, I decided to try The Rice Diet for the following reasons:

Dr. McDougall reccommended it. Why didn't I do the McDougall diet instead? Because the rice diet said lose up to 20 lbs the first month, and McDougall's said 15. With my wedding around the corner, I figured I'd need that extra 5.

I do not do fad diets. I prefer medically based diets that are proven to reduce heart disease, etc. I learned this the hard way, after doing a couple low-carb diets and the terrifying side effects I experienced.

I prefer diets that are not diets, rather, lifestyles that I can adopt for the rest of my life. This and McDougall fit the bill, however, like I said, this one had that extra 5lbs promise...
so I gave it a try.

This diet is also environmentally friendly...as in, you can go compeletely without meat if you choose to.

One problem I have with diets is that I'M ALWAYS HUNGRY. They said in the Rice Diet book, that you won't be hungry. I did not believe it.

Prior to the diet, I'd surpassed 600 calories for breakfast and I was still FAMISHED. So hearing, "you won't be hungry..." I thought, "well, this is a crock."

To my complete shock, it was true! They say that salt is a trigger, an appetite stimulant. Cutting out salt for breakfast especially helped me not binge eat the rest of the day.

So now I'm eating yogurt with cereal and fruit for breakfast because I like that more than oatmeal, and I'm not gobbling everything around me.

In the first week, I lost 10 lbs, gained 2 as I started my menstrual cycle--this was interesting as well...I did not have as much of the physical/emotional pms as usual. Usually, I GAIN 3-6 lbs during pms. So to lose 10 lbs during this time and only gain 2 was very surprising.

I am not a big believer in "detoxing," but I do know that we ingest a lot of chemicals in our food, which is why I try to avoid them.
Well, the first week on this diet,the detox part, I felt "clean." Like the cells in my body were clean or clear. This may not make sense. But it was a good feeling. I was not weighed down. In the past, sometimes I just wouldn't feel well. Especially after certain meals. I can't recall having such a 'clean' or 'clear' feeling in my body.

The book does reccommend excercise, but they say walking is fine. Or yoga, or tai chi. Because their reccommendations weren't extreme, and I wasn't intimidated and have actually started doing a little. Less than the reccommended hour a day, but a little, which, for me, is a lot.

The pluses are you lose weight,you feel good, it's a healthy way to diet, and there are health benefits.

The downside is that the book should have the portion sizes and the plan and the recipes together. I had to keep flipping back from the recipes to where it said the portion sizes were. "Okay, if I make this, how much of it can I eat...where was that page again..."

Also, in the beginning,which is where I"m at now, unless you follow their meal plans, it does take some time to map out your own meal plans.

Eating at restaurants is not easy. I went to a mexican place, got a side of black beans, a side of lettuce and tomatoes, and a side of corn tortillas and ate that without too much consequence. Everything in restaurants is loaded with salt.

But my favorite part is that I am not physically hungry. This was the worst part for me when dieting, was fighting that insatiable hunger. On this, I am not physically hungry. Yes, I get "mouth hungry," when I just want to eat for fun, becauase something tastes good. But it's a joy to be not body hungry.

I had to make mental adjustments, too. I think we're addicted to stuff like excess salt and artificial flavors. If we don't get that mouth jolt, we feel like we're going without. I've had to learn to taste more, and let go the artificially stimulating foods that I think we've been programmed to get addicted to. Like the jolt of flavor in the first bite of a dorito, or blast of artificial flavor and sugar in sodas. I was addicted to that. But now, having to taste what food tastes like for real, it's been good, in a good way.
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Stylenclass
5.0 out of 5 stars This is THE solution. You'll never need another diet again.
Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2015
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First-off, let me say that although the title of this diet sounds like a fad diet. It is anything but. It is based-on a doctor created diet from the early 1900's from a doctor affiliated with Duke University.It really is one of, if not THE first diet, and it works and offers major health benefits.

I lost 30 pounds in the first month and a half of following this diet plan last summer. I also lowered my mild hypertension to a normal level...no meds.(I was glad about this because my BP had been steadily and slowly raising over the years, and I didn't want to end up on meds eventually). I really HAD to write this review because this diet is really the answer to diet prayers. You can drop massive amounts of weight quickly, safely, and steadily. Within the first two days, I had lost 7 pounds. Within a week, I had lost 12 pounds. After that, I steadily lost 1 pound a day. (The recommendation on this plan is to weigh yourself each morning, and on this diet, it was extremely motivating because of how well the weight was
coming off). Here is the caveat: To get these kinds of results you must follow the program to a "T". If you do, you literally will get on the scale each and every day and see a one pound weight loss--DAILY. However, just know that when you don't, your weight loss will slow, stop, or you will gain depending upon how far off the plan your eating was. Another plus? You don't have to do crazy workouts to get these results. All you need to do is walk, which is what I did. Now, I did eventually incorporate some strength training because I didn't want to get flabby, but there is no
rigorous exercise required to get TREMENDOUS results. ALSO, I really appreciated that after a while (maybe a week) this diet kills your appetite, so you no longer crave all the terrible foods that got you into trouble in the first place.

I am writing this review as I prepare to do the diet again because in a year's time, my eating wasn't always the best, and I gained back 10 pounds. However, that was my fault, and the fact of the matter is that I still managed to keep off 20 pounds for a year. Now, my plan is to re-lose the 10
pounds that I gained back and lose even more weight. I'm in my late 40's, but I'm going to try and get back to my high-school and/or college weight which is easily doable with this plan. Stop looking at other diets. This is the answer.

One last point: this is called a diet, but it's really a life-style change. You do have to overhaul your diet. There really is nothing to keep you from success but yourself.
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S. L. Newell
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 16, 2015
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Great. Worth the money!
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Spider Lockhart
4.0 out of 5 stars Thoughtful, helpful and informative.
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2023
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This book was clearly a work of inspiration with the intention of helping
people suffering from eating and health disorders. I lost 10 lbs in 5 days by strict adherence to the protocol. Yes, mostly water weight but, ten pounds ? No major hunger issues and cravings have not yet been overwhelming. The edema so obvious around my ankles is gone. Easy? Maybe not. Simple? Yes. There is no easy solution to this weight problem thing. Aggressively facing the demon is what we have and this book provides the armory to do so.
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