The Rice Diet Renewal: A Healing 30-Day Program For Lasting Weight Loss

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Introduction

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or the last nineteen years, I have had the great pleasure and

privilege of teaching and learning about healing at the Rice

Diet Program in Durham, North Carolina. Participants here, fondly

nicknamed Ricers, have the opportunity to experience the fastest,

safest, and most effective way to lose weight and improve every

other modifi able risk factor of heart disease and, in fact, most

diseases. Founded in 1939, the Rice Diet Program has for seventy

years facilitated and collected the most impressive weight - loss and

weight - maintenance data and heart disease risk-factor improve-

ments that have ever been documented. Men each lose an average

of thirty pounds and women an average of nineteen pounds in the

fi rst month on the program. But what is even more impressive is

the long - term success of our thousands of participants: 43 percent

of Ricers have maintained their weight loss or lost even more after

six years back home! Our founder, Dr. Walter Kempner, often said,

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