Mediterranean Diet

The Rice Diet

The Rice Diet is one of the fad diets. It promises a very fast way to lose. In fact They guarantee you to lose between 2-3 pounds the first day alone on the rice diet. The rice diet is very simple to do. You can stuff yourself of rice providing you don’t put salt in it. As you cannot put proteins and fats, the rice diet is completely unbalance.

After a few days eating rice, you have lost a few pounds more… of water! As soon as you come back to you normal diet, you’ll recover it in matter of hours.

There is a book about it: The Rice Diet Solution by Kitty Gurkin Rosati and Robert Rosati. The most important thing you can find in it is the statement that most of us eat seven or eight times more salt that we need. If this is your case and you cut the salt, you’ll feel better specially if you suffer from blood pressure. Anyway, if your health is alright, it will not do you any harm to eat just unsalted boiled rice for a couple of days… if you can stand so long!

If you get bored at the first day, you can change the type of rice: brown, integral, etc.. there are more than fourty thousand different varieties of it!