As White Rice Intake Rises, So May Your Risk for Diabetes

This study did not examine the extent of obesity, amount of physical exercise done and intake of other sugary drinks and foods, which are the most important factors in the potential incidence of type 2 diabetes.

The Rice Diet, initiated by Dr Walter Kempner in 1939, treated diabetes and its complications, restoring failing vision and renal dysfunction with a diet of rice, fruit, vegetables and protein sources such as fish, chicken, eggs and occasional meat. This has provided exceedingly successful results over the past 72 years.

Currently at the Rice Diet of Central Florida, we routinely reverse type 2 diabetes with a diet that begins with rice (white, brown, basmati, wild grain, black, red, etc.) and fruits, with progressive addition of the other food groups. We see a rapid improvement of blood sugars and hemoglobin A1C levels, and a rapid drop in insulin usage as well as oral hypoglycemic. This works in the obese type 2 diabetic and also in the type 1 diabetic. My new book, Lose Weight Get Healthy & Be Happy, has testimonials of patients who have seen incredible results—some patients have even been able to stop taking their diabetes medications.

Rice is part of the cure, and not the much maligned object of recent medical reports. The more important factors to avoid diabetes are to avoid obesity, maintain dietary portion control, exercise, and eat a primarily natural, healthy diet.

Fancy terms such as glycemic index are misleading, experimentally contrived and unfortunately inaccurate for many reasons…but that is a topic for another time. For now, remember that rice, even white rice in moderation, will not cause diabetes or be injurious to the diabetic.

Douglas Jay Sprung, MD, FACG, FACP

Rice Diet of Central Florida, Director

Altamonte Springs, Florida

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Douglas Jay Sprung, is the medical director at the Rice Diet of Central Florida. He is a board-certified internist and gastroenterologist who trained at Duke University School of Medicine and studied with Dr. Walter Kempner, the originator of the Duke Rice Diet, then and during his subsequent residency training at Duke. His gastroenterology fellowship was done at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Massachusetts. In more than 25 years of private practice in Orlando, Florida, Dr. Sprung has observed first-hand the effectiveness of the Rice Diet in reversing obesity and related health problems. Dr. Sprung advocates the Rice Diet as a medically sound, practical and doable regimen to reverse obesity and achieve lifelong good health. For more information on the Rice Diet Book, please visit www.ricedietbook.com

Tamarra of FL 3:25PM April 02, 2012