The Effect of the Rice-Fruit Diet on the Composition of the Body
- 7 December 1950
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 243 (23) , 899-905
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195012072432301
Abstract
THE development of effective therapeutic measures for the control of essential hypertension is one of the most pressing problems facing present-day medical investigators. Attempts to treat hypertension by various dietary measures have often stimulated the hopes of the medical profession,1 but no dietary technic has, in fact, provided a means of breaking the therapeutic impasse.The introduction of the rice-fruit diet in 1944 constitutes the latest attempt to control hypertension by dietary means. By the use of the diet, its originator reported significant lowering of the blood pressure in 62 per cent of 500 patients with essential hypertension; he also . . .Keywords
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