#TBT Published on this day 80 years ago: Some Effects of the Rice Diet Treatment of Kidney Disease and Hypertension.🍚 #plantbased #ricediet #nephsky #medsky #kidneydisease #nephrology #throwbackthursday #hypertension #lowprotein
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Treating Malignant Hypertension With the Low-Sodium, Low-Protein, and Low-Fat Rice Diet | Hypertension BACKGROUND: The rice diet (RD), a low-sodium (<150 mg/d), low-protein (20 g/d), and low-fat (<5 g/d) diet was used to treat patients with malignant hypertension beginning in the 1940s, before an...

New in one of @americanheart.bsky.social's journals: "The low-sodium, low-fat, low-protein #ricediet effectively lowered BP in malignant #hypertension patients in 4 weeks, independent of antihypertensive medications." #cardiosky #cardiology #plantbased
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Modern perspective of the Rice Diet for hypertension and other metabolic diseases Background In the early 1940s, before antihypertensive drugs were available, the Rice Diet Programme (RDP) was developed to treat severe hypertension and, later, diabetes and obesity. Despite signific...

New in @bmj.com "Initial analysis shows reductions in BP and weight as well as improved survival in participants with severe hypertension, underscoring the effectiveness of the diet." #ricediet #cardiosky #cardiology #medsky #diabetes #hypertension
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