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Author:

Newborg, Barbara.

Title:

Walter Kempner and the rice diet : challenging conventional wisdom / Barbara Newborg ; with Florence Nash.

Publisher:

Carolina Academic Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

xii, 261 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Kempner, Walter,--1903-1997
Medical scientists--North Carolina--Biography.
Reducing diets.
Rice--Therapeutic use.
Rice in human nutrition.
Kempner, Walter.
Physicians--Germany--Biography.
Physicians--North Carolina--Biography.
Diabetes Mellitus--diet therapy--Germany.
Diabetes Mellitus--diet therapy--North Carolina.
Diet Therapy--history--Germany.
Diet Therapy--history--North Carolina.
History, 20th Century--Germany.
History, 20th Century--North Carolina.
Hypertension--diet therapy--Germany.
Hypertension--diet therapy--North Carolina.
Kidney Diseases--diet therapy--Germany.
Kidney Diseases--diet therapy--North Carolina.

Other Authors:

Nash, Florence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Ricers -- Family and early childhood -- Education : Heidelberg and Berlin -- Crisis and diaspora -- A new home -- Neu Dahlem -- Development of the rice diet -- Results -- Kudos and controversy -- The rice houses -- In the laboratory -- Building the financial foundations -- The gadfly.

ISBN:

1594608857 (alk. paper)
9781594608858 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)660161905

LCCN:

2010035764

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)