Walter Kempner and the Rice Diet: Challenging Conventional Wisdom
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (545 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1594608857 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 274 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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She lives in Durham, North Carolina. . Barbara Newborg (MD, Johns Hopkins University, 1949) is an Associate Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Duke University
Kempner. Kempner's diet contributed significantly over the years to Durham's economic growth and Duke's transformation into a world-famous center for medical research and care. The story of a charismatic but always controversial personality and his circle of accomplished followers, and their wartime experience as refugees and exiles, will interest general readers, including thousands of ''Ricers.'' For medical professionals and scholars, the book documents historic research that elucidated underlying principles of kidney, diabetic and cardiovascular disorders, and their successful treatment without drugs. The first AMA presentation, in 1944, of his unconventional research in the origins and treatment of metabolic diseases provoked wide attention and considerable controversy, but the results of his strict diet regimen were undeniable. The book includes many rare personal photographs (which Kempner suppressed during his life) and clinical images including graphs, x-rays, eye-grounds, and photos.. From his arrival at Duke, Kempner worked to help friends get out of Germany. Patients flocking to Durham for the famous Rice Diet found their diabetes, kidney and cardiovascular diseases once considered fatal cured or greatly improved. The headline-grabbing success of Dr. This first-hand account of Kempner's life and of his work comprises two dramatic interrelated narratives. One, author Barbara Newborg, worked with him
good if you want to know more about Dr. Kempner Whimsy Taylor If you want to know more biographical background on Dr. Kempner, this book will certainly shed some light for you. I had hoped to find more in-depth information about the research behind the rice diet, and there isn't as much in here as I thought there might be. Basically, it seems that in looking for a low sodium low protein solution for kidney disease and life-threatening hypertension (prior to the advent of an. Scholarly and thoroughly If you want to know full details about the man who developed the Rice Diet -- his life as well as the science behind the diet that has saved many lives since 1939 from kidney disease, obesity, and other ailments -- this is the book. It's written by the doctor who worked with him for forty years. It's not casual reading. While scholarly and detailed, it likely will appeal mostly to readers whose health has been im. The white rice-diet to treat disease? You learn about Kempner's life, some friends, family, mentors, and how lucky he was in getting to where he got. Certainly he was a gifted man, but as he had said without Otto Warburg, things probably would not have been successful for him. Under Warburg's excellent science, Kempner learned how to discover what is going on within the body, that the teaching of the time wasn't telling him. Through reading half of t
She lives in Durham, North Carolina. About the Author Barbara Newborg (MD, Johns Hopkins University, 1949) is an Associate Professor of Medicine Emeritus at Duke University.