Duke University Rice Diet
Duke University Rice Diet may have the word “rice” on its name, but surprisingly it has really little thing to do with rice. The diet was created by Walter Kempner from, naturally, Duke University and aimed at first to help people who have heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and finally those who have obesity.
Duke University Rice Diet is not any ordinary diet program that you can do from the comfort of your home. It needs to be done by and under supervision of professional and certified dieticians and physicists. If you wish to join the diet program, you must go to Rice House centers in North Carolina. Even though the diet program looks too strict and a handful, it still successfully attracts people from all over the world to come and join the diet program even when it means that they need to save up a quite big amount of money first.
There are two phases in Duke University Rice Diet. The first phase requires dieters to only eat grains and fruits. Dieters need to go through this phase under supervision of a nutritionist. Phase two requires dieters to eat vegetables, fish, and any food which contains carbohydrates. Each phase equally takes up half time of diet period.
Foods that need to be avoided are meat and dairy products. Dieters need to avoid these foods until their physicians allow them to. Salt is another thing that needs to be avoided by Duke University rice dieters. Research shows that our body needs only half gram of salt to function normally. Yet, everyday we consume around 4 to 5 grams of salt. This means that there are around 3,5 to 4,5 grams of excessive salt in our body which can lead to hypertension and kidney disorder.
Duke University Rice Diet is a considerably effective diet program compared to other text book diet you can read by other nutricians.