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

Kitty Gurkin Rosati (Author), Robert Rosati (Author)
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December 27, 2005
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 improve-ment in such conditions as heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension. After all the other diets out there have failed them, people find that the Rice Diet is the one that finally works -- for good.

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.

The Rice Diet is not just an eating plan. It's a physical, emotional, and spiritual program that will change the way you live, giving you new vitality, energy, and longevity. Ricers report that the Rice Diet not only helps them solve weight problems they've struggled with their whole lives but also teaches them a whole new way of healthier, more mindful living.

Whether you want to lose twenty pounds or two hundred, the Rice Diet can help you do it -- finally and forever.

WHAT MAKES THE RICE DIET SOLUTION

THE LAST DIET BOOK YOU'LL EVER NEED?

SOLID TRACK RECORD: Turning out success stories since 1939, the Rice Diet Program is the original, most effective diet to use nutrition to achieve not only safe and rapid weight loss but also the prevention and reversal of chronic disease. On this low-sodium, low-fat, detox diet, you'll enjoy a delicious variety of satisfying foods, including whole grains, fresh fruits, vegetables, legumes, dairy, seafood, and lean meats. You will never feel hungry!

RAPID WEIGHT LOSS: The average "Ricer" loses up to thirty pounds in the first month!

LONG-TERM SUCCESS: 63 percent of people who have lost weight on the Rice Diet report weighing the same or less one year later.

MEDICALLY SOUND: The Rice Diet Program is run by Duke University-trained M.D.s (a cardiologist and an endocrinologist) with more than thirty years of medical experience using diet as the primary treatment for long-term weight loss and disease reversal.

SCIENTIFICALLY PROVEN: Numerous scientific publications, including the American Journal of Medicine, have documented the diet's dramatic effects on such life-threatening illnesses as congestive heart failure and heart disease and its risk factors: diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and obesity. <...

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.


Product Details

  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition (December 27, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0743289838
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743289832
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #480,508 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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202 of 204 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Success with Rice Diet....lost over 170 pounds, January 6, 2006
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This review is from: The Rice Diet Solution: The World-Famous Low-Sodium, Good-Carb, Detox Diet for Quick and Lasting Weight Loss (Hardcover)
Years ago, I weighed over 310 pounds and had tried every diet program out there. I bought the original Rice Diet/Duke University diet book, since I could ill-afford to enter the actual program in Durham, N.C. I found that for me, being a vegan, this program was quite easy to follow...though I do believe that if one is not a vegan, it will take some struggle to deal with a meatless menu. I cannot say that I never cheated on the program, because I did grab an occasional piece of chocolate, a cookie, and even some pretzels...but I always erased those infrequent sins from my memory and did not let them defeat me. If you are extremely overweight as I was, of course you will lose a large amount of weight within the first month...since the larger you are, the bigger the initial weight loss will be...and yes, it is mostly fluid. Nonetheless, it is a fantastic ego boost to keep you on the right track. Did I exercise? Hell yes! One can never expect to lose weight or tone by diet alone...no matter which diet you follow. Walking is sufficient. No need to commit yourself initially to a workout plan that befits only the likes of Jennifer Aniston! Be realistic. For me, no, I did not regain any of my weight. I chose to think of the rice diet as a life plan, not a diet, tweaking a bit here and there to keep it real, once I reached my goal weight. I have weighed between 135-140 pounds since 1990. Not only did I lose weight, but my skin is radiant and youthful, and I am healthier than ever. I am 56 years old and on no medications, without any medical problems. Buy it!
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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Losing weight is the smaller benefit, December 25, 2006
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Grace and Kobie (coastal california) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Rice Diet Solution: The World-Famous Low-Sodium, Good-Carb, Detox Diet for Quick and Lasting Weight Loss (Hardcover)
My wife and I stumbled upon this book last May and made a commitment to give it a try for one week. We were both overweight to the tune of about 40 pounds each. At first, the diet seemed a challenge because it was so different from our eating habits, but as the first few days went by we both noticed how much happier we were with everything in our life. Much to our great surprise these feelings continued AND we continued to lose weight. Having lost the weight we both marvel at how easy it seemed to be, after many attempts to lose weight via other diets and methods.
I agree with one reviewer that the book is not cross referenced very well and that it is a cumbersome read, but the benefits we got far, far outweighed such a trivial matter.
It is a lifestyle change that works very well for us, having lost most of the weight we wanted to, and are happier as an unexpected benefit. Give it a try for a week and see if you feel better. Perhaps you will experience it the way we have, and your life will be changed forever.
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281 of 313 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic concept, but wretchedly written and poorly edited book, January 14, 2006
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Just Bill (Grand Rapids, MI United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Rice Diet Solution: The World-Famous Low-Sodium, Good-Carb, Detox Diet for Quick and Lasting Weight Loss (Hardcover)
The Rice Diet Solution contains everything that I believe would help turn Americans around -- not only in regards to their weight problems, but also their propensities for mental and physical exhuastion.

Essentially, this book espouses an Eastern lifestyle: lots of meditation, exercise, breathing exercises, and low sodium, whole grain meals. For example, the authors quote liberally from -- and highly recommend -- Zen Buddhist author Thich Nhat Hanh.

On a philosophical level, I would rate the book five stars. But as a cookbook/lifestyle changing work, I'd give it 1 or 2 stars. Here's why:

1. The book is ponderously written, taking forever to make simple points clear. I found myself reading and reading and reading, wondering when the authors would make their point. Too much background information.

2. The recipes listed in the Rice Diet Phases One - Three Weekly Menus are impossible to find in the index -- even the so-called Recipe Index. What they're called in the Weekly Menus, they're not called in the index. Sometimes, not even close. Or at all. Someone should have cross checked to see if there was consistency in recipe names. (Example: I dare anyone to find "Penne Pasta in 'Meat' Sauce" listed on page 185 of the Wednesday Lunch menu in the index in the back of the book.)

3. As my wife pointed out, the amount of food created for just one week of this diet would be so unbelievably wasteful as to fly in the face of the Zen Buddhist way of life. For example: Hardly any recipies are repeated throughout the week. So, in effect, you're creating 2-4 new dishes for every single meal, every single day! Let that sink in a minute. Then imagine the grocery bill, as well as the level of waste involved. Even if the recipes could be cut down, you're still buying enough food to feed an army.

4. The book is exactly what it purports to be: A dieta (Greek for "way of life"). However, distilling millennia of wisdom from the East into a poorly edited diet book is a fool's errand. At best, this book could and should have been a two-volume set. One volume contains nuggets of Zen Buddhist/Eastern philosophy wisdom and examples of what living such a life looks like. The other volume contains recipies in keeping with that lifestyle. Combining the two into one book (a) cheapens everything by packaging it to look like the latest fad diet, and (b) confuses the basics of both. In the end, someone will either read this book to get the Buddhist wisdom, or use the recipes to make meals, working hard to decipher what they're called from page to page and, maybe, lucking out in finding them listed in the back of the book.

Don't get me wrong. I think this book contains powerful, even life-changing, information. But how it's packaged leaves a lot to be desired.

Bottom line: I think adhering to a lifestyle in keeping with the tenets of Zen Buddhism (which is what much of the book is about, anyway) would automatically produce the desired end result: weight loss and healthy bodies and minds. But lumping both together into a book that many will overlook because it looks like the latest fad diet is a dumb move. Maybe the publisher will sell a train load of books that way. But how many people will understand everything espoused by the book?

I can recommend the concept of The Rice Diet Solution. But I have a hard time recommending the book itself.
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mindful eater, cup yellow onion, teaspoon extra virgin olive oil, teaspoon fresh basil, diet program, lasting weight loss, balsamic dressing, saturated fat, brown basmati rice, cup red onion
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Rice Diet, Rice House, Phase One, Phase Three, Phase Two, Thich Nhat Hanh, Gummy Bears, Black Pearl, North Carolina, Tuscan Bread, Basic Tomato Sauce, Health Valley, Duke University, Heal Your Heart, Jon Kabat-Zinn
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