Flashback Friday: Can Morbid Obesity Be Reversed Through Diet?

Описание: How extreme was Dr. Kempner’s rice diet compared to traditional surgical approaches? Is there a safer alternative?

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For more on Kempner and his rice diet, see:
• Kempner Rice Diet: Whipping Us Into Shape (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/kemp...)
• Drugs and the Demise of the Rice Diet (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/drug...)
• Can Diabetic Retinopathy Be Reversed? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/can-...)

More on the surgical approach can be found in Reversing Diabetes with Surgery (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/reve...) and Stomach Stapling Kids (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/stom....

Here are some of my weight loss videos but I have tons more on the topic page (https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/wei.... I also have a bunch of fasting videos (https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/fas....
• Waist Circumference Less Than Half Your Height (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/keep...)
• Nuts and Obesity: The Weight of Evidence (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/nuts...)
• How Much Exercise to Sustain Weight Loss? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-...)
• Nutrient-Dense Approach to Weight Management (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/nutr...)
• What Diet Should Physicians Recommend? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what...)
• How to Prevent Prediabetes in Children (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-...)
• Are There Foods with Negative Calories? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-...)
• Eating More to Weigh Less (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/eati...)
• Diabetes Reversal: Is It the Calories or the Food? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/diab...)
• Does Apple Cider Vinegar Help with Weight Loss? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/appl...)
• Optimizing Water Intake to Lose Weight (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/opti...)
• What Is the Safest Metabolism Booster? (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what...)
• The Best Diet for Weight Loss and Disease Prevention (https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-...)

If you’re curious about weight loss pills, I did two videos on them in 2019: Are Weight Loss Pills Safe? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-w...) and Are Weight Loss Pills Effective? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/are-w....

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