The diet as it has evolved is yes, a starvation diet. But when it was first designed, the Dr. noticed that people whose diet merely *included* rice were healthier. And the first iterations (at least in the writups, your Mom probably knows more) was that the Dr. allowed all the fruit and rice people could eat, but he couldn't prevent them from losing weight no matter how much they ate.
I don't know if that is true or not, but it jibes pretty well with what happens in Asia. There are lots of well-off Asians eating a diet that is mainly rice, and they eat all they want, but they are still skinnier than Europeans. Yet eating a "mainly carb" diet in the US does the reverse: the carbs tend to make people fat.
My take is that the rice/fruit diet pre-WW2, was a very low iron diet, while most US carbs are iron-fortified since WW2. So eating "all the rice and fruit you want" worked fine pre WW2, but probably won't work now because the rice is fortified. In my own diet though, I use rice made for export, which is not iron-fortified, and I drink tea or take IP6 with my meal each day. Which also includes fish and eggs for protein, and vegies. This has been working really well: I eat as much as I want, it digests really well, I don't get hungry later.
I stay way clear of all the "processed food" carbs though, which generally have added iron. Rice chex, for instance, has 100% of an adult's daily dose of iron, in *one serving*.
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 8:10 AM, heidioverbeek <heidioverbeek@yahoo.com> wrote:
I so agree that we can trust our appetites.
BTW - I did the rice diet as a teenager. (My mom worked at Duke and that is where the research was done, so everyone was doing it.) I don't remember all the details but if I remember correctly the rice diet was ONLY rice. And 1 cup portions of it, too. Maybe an apple. It was a starvation diet, not about adding rice to all your regular meals.
Heidi
> Interestingly, there is a diet called the "Rice diet" which came about
> because a physician noted that when people ate rice with each meal, they
> tended to be healthier.
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