SubscribeRaw For 30 Days: Can Diabetes Be Cured?
Raw for 30 Days is an independent documentary film that chronicles six Americans with diabetes who switch to a diet consisting entirely of vegan, organic, live, raw foods in order to reverse diabetes naturally.
It's almost an inverse "Supersize Me" if you will.
A medical team was established to monitor various health variables of the subjects. The diet: "No meat, no dairy, no alcohol, no caffeine, no refined foods, no junk food or fast food of any kind, no candies, no sugar".
The 8 minute trailer is fascinating, The results... staggering.
After reversing all her symptoms and coming off all medication, one woman asks "I don't see why my doctors don't know about this... I'm gonna make them aware..."
One thing I couldn't quite understand was: Did the subjects include those with Type 1 Diabetes? In one part the narrator mentions people coming "off insulin".
I could be mistaken (besides, I haven't had the opportunity to visit the site nor watch the video yet), but I think it's Type 2 only. If my understanding is correct, Type 1 normally develops due to an auto-immune disorder, while Type 2 normally results from the body developing resistance to insulin, and a tiredness of the pancreas after having had to produce too much of it in an attempt to compensate. It would make sense that a healthier diet might indeed help people to get off insulin, since in lots of cases the root of the problem comes from food, lack of exercise, etc; but in the case of Type 1, I'm not sure how this would be possible.
Replyi watched the movie - there was one guy with Type 1. they did not eliminate it 100% i think (can't remember too well!) but *drastically* reduced his insulin needs. very interesting!
ReplyI am a part-time raw vegan. I love raw food. I commend you for trying to eat healthier and help improve their life living with diabets. A lot of diabetics I know just aren't there yet. They need a boost and a jump start if you will on their thinking. One book I have come across is http://diabetesdoneright.com/ has helped so many change the way they think and live about their diabetes. Maybe then, they will be able to do more, like eating raw. I have some great recipes by the way.
ReplyMelissa, my antennae perked up when you mentioned that you have great recipes for raw food. I am overweight, generally unhealthy, and feel awful, and I want to do something about it. Raw food sounds like the ideal way to go, but I don't typically like (or can't even usually stand) raw foods. If you wouldn't mind passing along some recipes, or even just suggesting a good source to me, I would greatly appreciate it. My email is testaggs17@yahoo.com. Thanks, Tim.
ReplyI'm approaching my one year anniversary of becoming a vegan. I am 40 years old and have never felt healthier. I watched the trailer and couldn't help but look at the "addicts" going through "detox" and the freedom they experienced after being released from their drug of choice.
Our bodies are amazing machines. The genetic material we start with is (for the most people) adequate to sustain life. The only variables are the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the environmental stresses around us. It makes sense that controlling two of these four factors will yield tremendous results on the life we are able to live.
But people say that making a simple choice about the food we eat is "too hard". As if it is easier to buy a box of Twinkies than it is to buy a head of lettuce. To chew Laffy Taffy is easier than chewing red peppers. The only thing that is "hard" is shaking the addiction. And that is hard....
But until the addict wakes up and looks at his drug as poison that will eventually kill him, he will never be motivated to change. It is POISON.
Dang. I better get off my soapbox before I hurt myself.
ReplyType 2 diabetes can be reversed, but it can't be cured. If these people begin eating the way they were before, their diabetes will come back. For something to truly be a cure, it would have to mean that they can eat like the general population. Not everyone who eats an unhealthy diet develops diabetes. It's good to remember that there are other factors involved besides diet.
As far as insulin goes, some type 2 diabetics take it to manage their diabetes. Until someone develops a way to regrow or replace beta cells in the pancreas, type 1 diabetics will always have to take insulin.
ReplyMollyjade: You think like my mother did about her diabetes. She always said diabetes can't be cured, therefore she continued to eat the same way as she did before she started on insulin. It didn't matter what anyone said. Over the years she just added more insulin to compensate for the bad way she was eating until diabetes finally took her life. She always said it can't be cured and in her case I guess that was true. So let me say to anyone who is the mindset as she was, please watch what you eat. It isn't any fun to watch someone you love slowly kill themselves with the wrong kinds of food just because they think "it can't be cured".
J J
ReplyIt's so hard for me to sit and watch her eat the way she does knowing she has congestive heart failure, the diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. She's a young 58 years old...and could make the changes necessary -- but chooses not to because it's "too hard." I try to be understanding because I don't know what it's like to have diabetes- but I just can't understand why anyone would deliberately eat that way knowing they're slowly taking their own life.
ReplyThe type 2 diabetes epidemic is alarming. My family members with it, though, aren't exactly the vegan types (favorite meal: hot dogs). Maybe I'm just being cynical, but I fear many people would find the prospect of adopting a vegan/raw food much harder than having diabetes.
ReplyI definitely think diet plays a big role in managing diabetes (either type). I'm just leery of anything that claims to cure diabetes--especially when it doesn't clearly state what type of diabetes. Like I said above, there's a difference between curing diabetes and managing it. There are a lot of snake oil treatments out there, and claiming a cure and not specifying what type of diabetes are two of the indicators. (Full disclosure: I eat a vegan diet and have type 1 diabetes.)
Replywow. simply amazing. it reminds me of the biggest loser, but mixed with supersize me. one thing i fear is that i may have diabetes so i dont go test myself. hopefully exercising and eating healthy will reverse anything i may or may not have.
ReplyLet's remember that not all vegan diets are necessarily healhty... You can be a vegan and still eat junk!
A diet that consists of 75% raw fruit and vegetables, excludes sugar, alchohol, caffeine, preservatives and other chemicals is healthy and will certainly make a difference to even a Type 1 diabetic. But it is with Type 2 diabetes that this diet really comes into its own. Yes, you can reverse diabetes on a diet like this. Just as you can reverse heart disease and other conditions. But you need to know that this will be a lifestyle change that you will have to keep up. It's really only hard in the beginning, but thereafter, as Bob said, you will not want to eat the poison of the world anymore. Exercise is also vitally important.
ReplyThis is stupid. Raw foods veganism to cure diabetes? Why go to such an extreme?
You eat only raw, you're missing out on those vitamins that are unleashed from the food by heat. You eat no animal products and now you're dependent on supplements for vitamin B-12. And you're completely screwed for all those vitamin X which is only found in animal products but not yet discovered by science!
Not to mention that you're relying then on substandard protein sources (standard being animal protein) which, even when made complete by eating a variety of grains, seeds, nuts and legumes, still lack carnosine and other amino acids which are necessary for optimal performance.
Your body might be able to assemble the non-essential amino acids and fatty acids (such as making DHA and EPA from flax seed), but that's asking a lot of the body to do that day in and day out, and you'll never have it as good as someone who eats fish oil and animal muscle tissue. Or even eggs and milk.
Raw foods vegan, on the whole life time scale, will be lucky to survive. But you will never thrive. Humans evolved to eat animals. And to not do so, your brain is now outsized by your chosen spot on the food chain, as the human brain was only made possible by the introduction of shellfish to our ancestors' diets, and sustained by various animal prey since that time.
You are not a gorilla, who can eat a mostly raw foods "vegan" diet. Many of these raw food vegan people will point to a gorilla as the example. But you are human! And even a gorilla eats animals, as they eat insects regularly, and will even engage in chest beating and hooting behavior when coming across a cache of maggots. How else did you think they got their B-12, from the health food store supplement aisle?
In short, eat animals or animal products, or go extinct.
For further research, look here - http://www.beyondveg.com/
ReplyBTW, if you want to go off insulin injections, don't eat grains. Meat, vegetables, nuts, seeds, legumes and low-sugar/high-fiber fruits like apples or berries.
Now isn't that better than raw foods vegan insanity? Way better!
Yet most people would think the diet I prescribed insane enough.
This documentary is waaaay out in left field, and I hope it doesn't turn off diabetics from improving their diets, by presenting this weird anti-animal foods agenda.
ReplyBasically, everything you've just said is wrong. I urge you to compare a table of human versus carnivore versus omnivore versus herbivore digestive system chart. You will see that humans are closest to herbivores in physiology, even more so than omnivores! If we're meant to eat meat please explain why humans are unable to detoxify vitamin A from meat or digest the whole part of meat they ingest. Meat stays behind in the colon, releasing chemicals and causing colon cancer.
ReplyFirst,
I agree with mollyjade - the word "cure" is misued. It is one of those "power" words that gets throw around erroneously.
Secondly, I'm skeptical but open-minded enough to explore it further. There is nothing I've seen to eating raw foods that offers an advantage that a mixture of raw/cooked foods does.
I think there are many paths towards controlling diebetes - many of which are more doable long-term.
ReplyDr. Fuhrman (www.drfuhrman.com)has been recommending a vegan diet for several years now. He's the author of Eat to Live and has had many diabetic patients be off insulin in a very short amount of time. I follow a pretty strict vegan, no-sugar, no-salt, etc. diet, and I feel wonderful!
ReplyI don't think it is advisable to go to such extremes that is eating only "living" food, in order to reverse diabetes 2. A normal, healthy lifestyle is enough and even safer! (The word "normal" not taken litterary in today's US...)
For more interesting and intelligent reading on raw food, check out Mark's apple Mark's apple and for reference Mark again as well as Atomic nerds.
ReplyOops, I see that my first link is misleading to page 404. The right one is here .
ReplyIt isn't necessary to "go raw" or become a vegan to reverse Type 2 diabetes. These people improved because they eliminated processed foods from their diet. Animal protein and fat probably would have improved their results.
ReplyIt was definitely only type 2 diabetics ... type 1 diabetics always, always need some amount of insulin at all times. A type 1 diabetic can *reduce* the amount of insulin they need, however. (I'm a type 1 diabetic.)
I had dabbled in veganism on and off for a long, long time but admittedly never totally stuck to it. Then I tried it 100%, and mostly raw (because I do not enjoy cooking), and saw my insulin needs fall in that short period of time to 25% of what they were prior. My cholesterol also dropped 100 points to 135, and my blood pressure from 120/80 to 100/60. (I was not on any other medications besides insulin to cause this effect.)
You CAN get everything you need from a completely raw diet -- try a free nutrition tracking tool like Cron-O-Meter (http://spaz.ca) and play around. The hard thing is getting enough calcium without eating all day long. I am not completely raw and don't really intend to be.
The key to this is fat. Fat 'plugs up' your cells and makes it harder for insulin to get into them, which means you require more insulin to do the same job. A lower fat diet, which is almost unavoidable when you're raw (unless you eat avocado all day) and pretty easy to do when you're vegan, leads to lower insulin resistance.
My advice is: try it! Go vegan, consume less than 20g of fat a day, and see how you feel 30 days later. It can't hurt.
ReplyIt's not necessary to eat only vegan or raw food to eat a healthier, less processed diet. Just like it's not necessary to eat an Atkins-like diet to stop eating too much sugar and refined grains.
But for a lot of people, strict rules are easier, at least for awhile.
ReplyHello all,
For any doubts that a raw, plant-based diet is the best diet for health and longevity, I point you to two books from authorities on the matter...
In his book "Healthy at 100" author John Robbins reveals societies that are by far and away the healthiest on the planet. They are lean and fit and live into their 100's. On top of that they have almost no instance of disease (diabetes is almost unheard of). What's their diet? Nearly completely plant-based food.
And for you advocates of animal protein I point you to perhaps the greatest scientific research ever undertaken on the subject...The book is called "The China Study". It is well documented that societies that consume the most animal protein have the highest instance disease!
As long as we continue to believe the myth that there is still a cure out there for diabetes we will chase a dream. The truth is that the cure has already been found and the very basis is a raw plant based diet.
ReplyI think that there are numerous dietary changes that can have a positive impact on diabetes. What scares me more is that people who are diabetic or pre-diabetic are not jumping up to make these changes in droves. They are like people with potentially treatable lung cancer who choose to keep smoking. It's unbelievable!
ReplyNo sugar, no processed foods...no duh! Of course if you totally change your diet and eat the way nature intended, you will reverse the symptoms of diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is largely a disease caused by lifestyle...insulin sensitivity gets reduced if you're constantly eating foods high in refined sugar. And if the "cure" to diabetes is to change one's diet, why isn't that good enough? There are lots of conditions that require people to change their diets...CF, Crohn's disease, phenylketonuria, etc. It seems to me that it'd be better to have to eat salads and chicken breast than to be suffering all the time.
ReplyFunny, I don't even have to read that book to know that it is total bunk, from what little you just said.
Obviously, the richest societies can not only afford the most animal foods (the human maker), but they also have access to the most processed and convenience foods (the life destroyer).
ReplyIf it can, I'll never find out first hand. lol
Reply"For something to truly be a cure, it would have to mean that they can eat like the general population. Not everyone who eats an unhealthy diet develops diabetes."
But why would they WANT to go back to eating like the general population? Why does anyone really want to eat an unhealthy diet? I have to agree with Bob that such an idea sounds like the logic of a drug addict.
I have been vegetarian for a little over a year (I eat small amounts of egg and cheese) and so has my fiance. The health changes we've seen in ourselves have been astounding. I've lost 25 pounds & he's lost 50... we both feel great and LOVE our "diet." But our efforts to spread the good news have been disheartening. I woud love to show this movie to my diabetic inlaws....
ReplyI wasn't advocating eating crap. I was just taking issue with using the word "cure" in this context. Like I said, I eat a vegan, mainly whole foods diet. I think eating more vegetables and less processed junk is a great idea for anyone. But it's not a cure for diabetes, it's a treatment.
ReplyI went to the film's Website (http://rawfor30days.com) and saw that in addition they are releasing a DVD "Raw for Life" that
"is an A-to-Z encyclopedia of Raw Food, perfect for beginners and Raw Food enthusiasts. This two-disc DVD inspires people with the Raw Food philosophy, the wisdom of eating a raw food diet, important medical facts and nutritional information"
This looks like a great way to show your friends and family the benefits of your new way of life!
ReplyI've had type 1 diabetes for 13 years since I was diagnosed with it when I was twelve. I've just lived with it my whole life accepting what the doctors said and making the best with what I had. Not any more. I have spent the last couple of years searching for miracle pills and potions to cure diabetes because I am done waiting for the medical institution to find a cure. I know the medical institution will never find a cure because no one makes money curing diseases but they do by treating it and keeping diabetics diabetic. A few month ago a came across an amazing research team who has quite possibly revolutionized what diabetes is. The two Canadian doctors by the name of Dr. Dosch and Salter found that diabetes is not a immune disorder but a neurological disorder. They found that in the pancreases where the islet cells are is a high concentration of nerve endings. To make a long story short they injected capsicum (an anti-inflammatory agent derived form cayenne peppers) in the islet cell area of the pancreases of TYPE ONE diabetic mice and bamb, the most amazing discovery ever in diabetes; the lab mice where cured over night and began producing insulin.
Of course an outcry came form the medical institution and specialists in autoimmune disorders because this may dramatically change they way they treat many other so called "autoimmune" disorders.
Dr. Dosch and Salter's research was done so well that with everyone trying to find fault and under all the heavy scrutiny no one could find any evidence saying that it was not an neurological disease.
I guarantee different pharmaceutical companies, like Eli Lilly company who has literately billions of dollars to lose if they find a cure for diabetes, is working day and night to silence this project or find faulty "dangerous" evidence in Dosch and Salter's research.
I personally have found some of this to be true. I have experimented with some natural herbal anti-inflammatory agents and recorded that at night when I took scull cap tea I had a blood glucose reading of 50 and the next night the same thing happened. Prior to that my normal reading in the morning was around 150-180. I also have done some research on food that increases inflammation in the body along with trying to track down foods I may be allergic to or have an intolerance to which does create inflammation in the body. Through care full planing tracking what I eat and some exercise I have reduced my total daily insulin intake from around 75 units per day to as low as 25 units per day while eating roughly around 1600-2000 calories per day and maintaining a muscular frame.
I'm determined to find a cure for diabetes. God will give me the strength to persevere and I will cure my diabetes and I must. For I know the the medical institution never will.
God speed,
Reply-Chris
I know one of the participants in the program personally. we are both students at a Naturopathic medical school. And this man has not used insulin for 2 years now. also his C-peptide levels increased which means that his pancreas cells somehow or another either regenerated or those that he had remaining started to produce more insulin. This is amazing. furthermore this man whose name is Kirt Tyson is the one who did the documentary.
This is amazing!
ReplySadly the one who made the comment about the medical conventional medical establishment as just masking conditions is correct.
Conventional medicine is great for surgery and for stabilizing patients during traumatic events but it fails horribly for everything else.
just to give you a heads up, one of the board members of the American Diabetes Association is the CEO of the Cadbury chocolate company!
Donald Rumsfeld lobbied against Stevia in the United States in favor of artificial sweetners back in the mid seventies when he was involved with aspartame.
ReplyThe movie "Raw For 30 Days" looks interesting. I am not familiar with "Raw For Life", but I'm thinking of ordering it because I an new to raw food and the clips I saw on youtube look interesting.
check out the site at:
www.rawfor30days.com
Anyone here order "Raw For Life"? If so, what did you think of it?
ReplyHello Everyone:
I today most of the messages on this blog and having done that, I am inclined to share one message of my own. For many years ( 5 to 6), I have been trying to " manage" my diabetes through diet. I am vegetarian and take eggs but no meat. During the process of watching my diet, I discovered that eating raw helps to control the bloog sugar level. I saw great difference between eating raw onions and cooked onions when I measured my blood sugar after two hours of dinner. I always sort of " knew" that I must switch to raw diet whever possible but eat only limited quantity of potatoes, dates, sugar and goods made with white refined flour.
However, having said that, I must say that it is very important for me to control overall calories I eat. Also, TRANSFAT is a big NO for me now. I tend to agree with the the claim that raw food helps to manage ( not cure!) diabetes if you also follow through other restrictions as outlined above.
ReplyAs per my study "Raw for life " is not adequate for curing diabetes.
Even lot of exercise is not adequate.
Yogasana and Pranayam can cure diabetes 100%.
Only determined efforts are required.
According to Ayurveda (Indian Science) Diabetes can be cured.
ReplyIf Ayurveda is such a great cure for Diabetes, why does India have one of the highest incidences of it?
Any supplement claiming or method claiming to cure diabetes is a snake oil.
I tend to agree that Diabetes may be a neurological disorder as, I have Wilson's Disease, and notice that during flare ups, my blood sugar is higher than it is when the inflammations or "events" are controlled.
It would be interesting to see if non-steroidal (steroids raise blood sugar) alternatives such as capsicum help.
I'm going to try the skull cap (morbid name) tea and see if it helps.
Also, the average person will not be able to go on a raw diet, especially the diabetic who is under weight, like myself.
Everything in moderation, although, I do think that eliminating grains in any form, including rice and pasta, and poisonous root vegetables like potatoes can help control diabetes.
I just have not found the will power to go that far to the left.
Reply"Curing diabetes" is indeed snake oil.
Type II diabetics can often control their disease by following a low-carb diet. I assume a low-everything diet like raw veganism, where you basically eat low-carb vegetables and seeds other than maybe a bit of fruit and higher-carb uncooked vegetables like carrots (cause I can't imagine someone eating raw corn or raw pumpkin, for example) would still mean a reduction in the total amount of carb a person on an average diet eats, and cause weight loss and help lower blood sugar. However, the person would be starved and nutritionally deficient, as many have pointed out.
Type I diabetics do have to eat carb though - the ones processed slowly, in controlled amounts, in several small meals during the day - so that their blood sugar stays stable and doesn't drop too low from the insulin they take.
But really, I have an obese Type II diabetic high cholesterol high blood pressure sedentary aunt with all the works of Syndrome X, and she controlled her Type II diabetes by quitting sugar and walking for 30m a day, and cutting down on the carb portions. Her diet is still nowhere near "diabetic diet" or even "healthy diet" - she just grabs some sugar-free jello instead of a candy bar, and things like that. She went from the morbidly obese category to obese, so the weight loss wasn't that much, but simply by moving out of the couch and not living on sugary things, she has stable blood sugars. So many times it is not an issue that will even take a dramatic lifestyle change.
ReplyI am a 26 year old who was diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic about 2 years ago, in August of 06.
Before I was diagnosed I went to the doctor's in February
I did not hear anyhting back from my doctor so as usual I thought everything was fine.
I started to get tired, I was thirsty and I went to the bathroom alot, and lost alot of weight fast, so I decided to go back in August.
When i went to the doctors, he took another blood test and then told me that I am a diabetic. As he broke this news to me he also decided to tell me that is February when I was there that i was Pre-diabetic.
If I am correct you can reverse pre-diabetes.
Does anyone have any idea's as to why my doctor would screw me?
If he told me back in Febraury that I was pre diabetic I could have reversed my condition.
I now officially hate my doctor for doing this to me.
Please let me know your thought's, and if anything can be done about it.
ReplyType I diabetes cannot be reversed, and you are never pre-diabetic with Type I. It is an autoimmune disorder that destroys the islet cells of your pancreas, thus rendering it unable to produce insulin.
Type II diabetes is a syndrome more than a disease, and can in many cases be reversed with weight loss, change in diet, reduction of blood cholesterol levels, exercise, etc.
So if you are truly Type I diabetic, you need to take your insulin and there is no type of diet, raw or not, that will keep you from having to take insulin. You'll die without insulin, and pretty quickly at that. Ketoacidosis followed by coma.
However, it is important to follow a proper diabetic diet to keep the blood sugars as stable as possible, to avoid all the diabetes-related complication.
Your doctor didn't "doom you not to reverse your diabetes", but it doesn't sound like he is doing a good job of keeping you informed about your disease, so I strongly suggest you get a new doctor.
For the record, I'm not a doctor, just someone who has volunteered at a diabetes advocacy group for 10 years. My husband is diabetic.
ReplyRob, you never mention what kind of treatment you are receiving. What are you doing for your diabetes?
ReplyIf you have type II, as Jan said, there are plenty of lifestyle changes that may help.
If you're in the US, your state should have a medical licensing board or something similar. They should have a formal complaint process.
ReplyPlease don't encourage him to complain about a doctor who didn't tell him he was pre-diabetic with Type I diabetes when such a thing does not exist. It is like making a complain about a doctor not telling you are pre-cancerous now because one day you may have cancer (and while you can see pre-cancerous skin lesions in skin cancer, you can't exactly predict breast cancer, liver cancer, etc.)
I'm all about complaining when it is an issue of incompetence or irresponsibility by the doctor. Here it seems the issue is poor communication between patient and doctor. For that, the best thing to do is just to switch doctors.
ReplyBy the way Jan, the reason I asked Rob what his treatment consisted of was I wanted to see if his doctor was taking care of him correctly before giving an opinion on him. From my experience in medicine, it is not uncommon for patients to misinterpret, misunderstand or misquote their experience at the doctors. It can be a high stress environment. Not the easiest place for smooth transactions without conscious effort by all parties.
ReplyAbsolutely. Also, sometimes it is a matter of communication between a particular patient and that doctor, so I think reporting misconduct has to be something taken very seriously. It is the same as firing someone, if you just switch doctors: it doesn't mean that person who didn't work for your company can't be a fit in another company. Filing a complaint is the equivalent to calling the cops on a person who was just a slow worker.
ReplyHere is another questions. Most diabetics have people in their family that are diabetics. Hence genetics may cause your diabetes.
I only have a grandmother who is type 2.
No one else in my family history is a type 1 diabetic.
This is where I believe it is either stress or our food supply that causes diabetes. Not genetics.
Anyway just my thoughts.
ReplyVirus.
By the way, Rob, I like my questions answered also.
ReplyType II has been proven to be genetic.
Type I has been disproven as being genetic - although there can be a genetic propensity towards autoimmunity, there is no way to predict whether that will manifest at all, or in the form of diabetes.
However, Type II is also greatly related to lifestyle, and I think that is a much bigger factor than just genetics.
ReplyYes, type 1 diabetes can be reversed. They have enough science to tell if you are at risk of having type 1 diabetes. It is an autoimmunity which mean your body is attacking itself. It is attacking itself for a reason, not because it is bored and has nothing else to do. A lot of things have been proven to be genetic, it doesn't mean anything.
ReplyKalish said in regards to The China Study:
"Funny, I don't even have to read that book to know that it is total bunk, from what little you just said."
The China Study is a well written and researched book that shows through studies conducted in the USA (and also China and other countries) the way that diet contributes to disease. It's not just junk food that is the culprit as your response indicates you believe. Being mindful of the impact our dietary choices has on our health and the environment is an opportunity that the information age presents us with. Take it or leave it; the information is well documented and accessible in The China Study. Definitely worth reading, it could change your life.
ReplyI'm amazed reading through this forum all the controversy over just simply raw food. I've only been aware of the raw food diet for about 2 years now and everyone I've ever read about or known that has gone or tried raw has always had nothing but good to say about it. It completely reboots your body to sharper senses bursts of energy and 100 percent healthier all around. I don't see why anyone diabetic or completely healthy wouldn't want that for themselves.
ReplyI'm a type 1 diabetic and have always left my options open for new possibilities on cure's or healthier lifestyle's for diabetes. And nothing has ever sounded as healthy or right as a raw food diet. The documentary just goes to show that if you go raw and stay raw as a diabetic type 2 primarily you can cure yourself. Why would you want to go back after cleansing yourself and start eating junk again, of course you would just get diabetes again, that's not the point.
I've recently talked to my doctor about going raw and all of the forums and information on diabetics going raw and her first words were that type 1 diabetes is not curable, however, I firmly believe that our bodies are astonishing and are completely capable of curing themselves. I'm not saying type 1 diabetes can be cured by a raw food diet, but I haven't tried it and I haven't heard of anyone that has. So who's to say it can't work then if no one knows. Even if it doesn't work your on less insulin intake and it's better for you all around.
Our society is surrounded by unhealthy tempting threats daily and we aren't even aware of how harmful the food we consume is for our bodies.