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I wrote that too quickly. Brown rice has sufficient variety of protein so a person can survive on diet of rice and juices for many months, see https://en.wikipe

• dpark 11y ago
  Every time you add another comment you modify the proposed diet.... But anyway, key points on the rice diet: > patients were hospitalized for several weeks at the beginning of treatment. This was a diet specifically created for people who were otherwise going to die. It was never promoted as a healthy diet for normal individuals. > white rice, sugar, fruit, fruit juices, vitamins and iron So not just rice. Not just rice and fruit juice. But also whole fruit plus vitamins and iron to account for the fact that just eating rice will kill you. Also, not brown rice at all. You're just pulling in random stuff to try to support your wild claims. > Kempner described his diet as "a monotonous and tasteless diet which would never become popular.... Kempner's only defense of its use was the fact that “it works,” and that the diet was preferable to the alternative of certain death" Sounds like a great endorsement of the diet from its creator.
  • fpoling 11y ago
    I do not propose a diet (and I should not diverged into the health - that was a mistake indeed). What is important is that with potato, rice and other starchy food without added oil one does not need to consciously limit the amount consumed while staying on normal weight despite apparently excessive calories. So the comment that started this thread proposing that people consume too much is not true. It is just that people consume too much of wrong stuff. The solution is to limit bad items so normal body feedback loops work, not the amount of food.