34 the rice diet renewal
To begin this journey, let ’ s fi rst focus on your body. What is your
main goal? Do you want to lose weight, stabilize your blood sugar,
or heal a certain disease? By fi rst connecting with how your body
feels and functions, you are one step closer to manifesting the
optimal health that you desire.
I recommend cleaning up your diet fi rst — and not only because
I have a master ’ s degree in foods and nutrition. I think that an
organic, whole - food diet without added sodium will improve your
physical health, as well as your thoughts, feelings, and spiritual
openness to the creative process, faster than any other concrete
thing you can do for yourself. One of the main ways that the Rice
Diet cleanses your body of toxins, excess pounds, and other impuri-
ties is through its low - sodium nature.
The Skinny on Sodium
Since its inception in 1939, the Rice Diet has been defi ned as
a medical therapy based on a “ no - salt - added diet. ” Dr. Walter
Kempner founded the Rice Diet Program to treat hypertensives
and kidney patients. At that point in history, there were no blood
pressure – lowering medications or dialysis machines available;
thus, patients with very high blood pressure (malignant hyperten-
sives) and kidney disease either followed the Rice Diet or died
before the age of forty. Seventy years of Rice Diet experience have
shown that signifi cantly reducing our sodium intake can dramati-
cally improve or heal a wide range of health conditions that conven-
tional medicine often fails to alleviate. Miracles upon miracles are
documented on our walls and in our fi les, from malignant hyper-
tensives who normalized their blood pressure, to those blinded
(legally confi rmed blind) from previously uncontrolled diabetes
who regained their vision and left driving newly needed cars!
During the last two decades, I have personally observed, and
research has documented, a growing concern for the deleterious
effects of sodium consumption on our health. Globally speaking,
cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death and disability,