People who ate only the Rice Diet for a while ended up peeing out almost no salt, which means they were eating almost no sodium at all—and they stuck to the diet really well.

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Modern perspective of the Rice Diet for hypertension and other metabolic diseases

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2024

The study looked at a super-low-salt rice diet and used urine tests to see if people stuck to it, but it never said the numbers went from 75.3 to 5.8 — so we can’t confirm the exact claim.

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Modern perspective of the Rice Diet for hypertension and other metabolic diseases

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DOI: 10.1136/bmjnph-2024-000949

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People in China who used a special spoon that measures exactly 2 grams of salt while cooking for three years ended up excreting less salt in their urine than those who didn’t use it—meaning the spoon helped them eat less salt.

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Eating almost no salt—less than a pinch a day—while following the Rice Diet didn’t seem to make people with high or normal blood pressure die any sooner, and most of them lived at least five years. So maybe cutting salt this much is okay even for healthy people.

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