A Whole Food Plant-Based Diet Can Help Diabetic Retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in adults in the United States. Diabetic retinopathy occurs when the blood vessels the bring nutrients to the eye become damaged and leak blood and other fluids into the eye. This results in inflammation of the retinal tissue and cloudy vision.
Modern intervention for diabetic retinopathy consisted of multiple insulin shots a day. Today steroids and other drugs or injected into the eyeballs, and this is for a treatment that only slows the progression of the disease.
In the 1950’s Dr. Kempner was able to reverse the disease[1][2] and not just slow its progression. His accomplishments accomplishments went largely ignored though.
The data supported Kempner was able to reverse the disease by simply putting his patients on a whole food plant-based diet consisting of rice and fruit.
Patients whose disease was so severe and weren’t able to read, were able to read fine print after switching to the diet. Kempner was able to prove he was able to reverse the disease.[3] Kempner was able to greatly improve the vision and reverse the disease of 30% of his patients simple by having them eat a plant-based diet based on rice.
[1] W Kempler. Compensation of renal metabolic dysfunction. N. Car Med Jour. 1945 Feb 6(2)61 – 87.
[2] W Kempler. The Treatment of Retinopathy in Kidney Disease and Hypertensive and Arteriosclerotic Vascular Disease with the Rice Diet. 1951 Revista doos Tribunais.
[3] W Kempner, R L Peschel, C Schlayer. Effect of rice diet on diabetes mellitus associated with vascular disease. Postgrad Med. 1958 Oct;24(4):359-71.
