Raw food is SOOO Beauty-Full...and heals diabetes!

[Pitaya]

I have been struggling for some time with my father being diagnosed with Type II diabetes. He once was a healthy vibrant man now he is pale and overweight and it breaks my heart every time I see him. The toughest part is that this is SOO curable through raw foods, yet every time another day passes, it increases his chances of going to Type I, which is even harder to cure.

I keep asking myself...what can I do? how can I help him? He is curious about how I've healed myself from asthma, allergies, overweight and depression this past 6 months, and hmms and haaas when I tell him about how to prepare food, but is sooo resistent to changing his diet, especially because his Type I diabetic wife refuses to change her lifestyle ways, and honestly could care less if she dies tomororow or not. I know this is resistance is natural, but it's hard to watch. can anyone relate???

i am working on him, slowly, and i KNOW the beauty of raw foods will one day help him too, no matter how "late" anyone thinks it is, but in the meantime, I just needed to express my feelings in a community as beautiful as this, who has supported me 1000% along my journey. I don't know where I'd be without the internet and this place :)

the message that is repeated again and again here is that raw foods are SOOO beauty-full. I also just watched Raw For Thirty, a spectacular new documentary/reality film that shows what happens to diabetics over 30 days. I cried and cried throughout it, as they prepared the dishes, showed their journeys. it was actually strange, as though I was looking in the mirror. but most of all...it just confirmed for me: raw foods rawk!!! they are healing and beautiful and alive and full of energy. when we eat them, we are too!

thanks for listening, now and always, and I'm wishing everyone a continued beautiful journey. please share your diabetes stories here if you like too or just pop in to say anything about trying to support any loved ones or to say anything on any ol' topic at all :)

still-sniffling pitaya

[roseyonnex]

Yes, that documentary was so great! I have been passing it out to my friends as much as possible to get the word out.

After watching that it really infuriates me that the somebody is making millions of dollars with the selling diabetics insulin to shoot up with as a band-aid, a lot of them their entire lives, when they could be pushing eating raw as the fix, and raw only takes about four days apparently. (That's just amazining...four days!) It's just really sad. I for one cannot imagine pricking my finger, giving myself shots over and over again. That alone cannot be good for you.

But, as shown in the movie too, when the one indian fellow dropped out, even when the solution is put right in front of you, you don't always take it. And, Type I is a lot harder to "cure," obviously.

[Revvell]

Here's a review I did on it.

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days (http://revvellations.com/weekly/)

[juliebove]

I have been struggling for some time with my father being diagnosed with Type II diabetes. He once was a healthy vibrant man now he is pale and overweight and it breaks my heart every time I see him. The toughest part is that this is SOO curable through raw foods, yet every time another day passes, it increases his chances of going to Type I, which is even harder to cure.

I keep asking myself...what can I do? how can I help him? He is curious about how I've healed myself from asthma, allergies, overweight and depression this past 6 months, and hmms and haaas when I tell him about how to prepare food, but is sooo resistent to changing his diet, especially because his Type I diabetic wife refuses to change her lifestyle ways, and honestly could care less if she dies tomororow or not. I know this is resistance is natural, but it's hard to watch. can anyone relate???

i am working on him, slowly, and i KNOW the beauty of raw foods will one day help him too, no matter how "late" anyone thinks it is, but in the meantime, I just needed to express my feelings in a community as beautiful as this, who has supported me 1000% along my journey. I don't know where I'd be without the internet and this place :)

the message that is repeated again and again here is that raw foods are SOOO beauty-full. I also just watched Raw For Thirty, a spectacular new documentary/reality film that shows what happens to diabetics over 30 days. I cried and cried throughout it, as they prepared the dishes, showed their journeys. it was actually strange, as though I was looking in the mirror. but most of all...it just confirmed for me: raw foods rawk!!! they are healing and beautiful and alive and full of energy. when we eat them, we are too!

thanks for listening, now and always, and I'm wishing everyone a continued beautiful journey. please share your diabetes stories here if you like too or just pop in to say anything about trying to support any loved ones or to say anything on any ol' topic at all :)

still-sniffling pitaya

Diabetes is not curable IMO. Controllable, but not curable.

And type 2 does not go to type 1. I am a type 2 who uses insulin. But that's not the same as type 1.

[juliebove]

Yes, that documentary was so great! I have been passing it out to my friends as much as possible to get the word out.

After watching that it really infuriates me that the somebody is making millions of dollars with the selling diabetics insulin to shoot up with as a band-aid, a lot of them their entire lives, when they could be pushing eating raw as the fix, and raw only takes about four days apparently. (That's just amazining...four days!) It's just really sad. I for one cannot imagine pricking my finger, giving myself shots over and over again. That alone cannot be good for you.

But, as shown in the movie too, when the one indian fellow dropped out, even when the solution is put right in front of you, you don't always take it. And, Type I is a lot harder to "cure," obviously.

Are you telling me my insulin is a bandaid?

If so... Then I'll keep using it. I need to keep my limbs and I can't get my blood sugar down without it. Raw diet or no raw diet.

Nobody can get rid of their insulin just by eating raw food for four days. And I have no choice but to prick my finger. That you can't do it and saying you can't do that or shots is a really pathetic attitude. I hope you never get an incurable disease.

[Inca_faerie]

Did the people involved in the documentary eat fruit or were they on a low sugar raw diet?

[Revvell]

They ate fruit and chocolate and more.

[rawstar]

Are you telling me my insulin is a bandaid?

If so... Then I'll keep using it. I need to keep my limbs and I can't get my blood sugar down without it. Raw diet or no raw diet.

Nobody can get rid of their insulin just by eating raw food for four days. And I have no choice but to prick my finger. That you can't do it and saying you can't do that or shots is a really pathetic attitude. I hope you never get an incurable disease.

Yes...it's a little different when you actually HAVE diabetes, isn't it? I guess I couldn't have imagined myself doing six blood tests and six injections every day this time last year, but hey if it's a choice between doing it or slowly dying and feeling like total s*** all day long....well, looks like I'm going to keep on doing it. I think someone said this treatment can't be good for you? Again, probably not, but I'm not going to be sitting here letting my blood sugar run high so that I can go blind, get heart disease, kidney failure, lose my legs etc etc, having sore fingers and bruises everywhere from injections is better for me that that!!!

I would like to see the film - looking at the website before it was released got me looking at raw - and I'm sure it will be interesting and helpful but I totally agree there is NO WAY I would be off insulin in four days!!!!! Maybe someone who is prediabetic or very mild type 2 could achieve this, but not a type 1. Yes, I use less insulin when I am doing better with the raw and maybe after months and months or years and years of 100% there might be a chance to get off it but it clearly does not happen straight away.

I also think that just because someone has a chronic disease like diabetes, it doesn't mean that they will be able to transition effortlessly to raw overnight and maybe we should give such people a break. I think attitudes like "they're diabetic? And they're not 100% raw??? What are they doing ?!?" are not helpful. I'm not saying that's the attitude on this thread but it's something I have come across. Now, I KNOW that 100% raw is the best for my body and my diabetes...does that mean I have just been able to snap my fingers and go 100% raw???? NO. I'm sure I am just weak and pathetic, but I have spent since the beginning of the year yo-yoing back and forth, some cooked, some raw, experimenting, trying things out. I will get there. It probably doesn't help that I have had to adapt to being diabetic this year as well. If you don't have diabetes, particularly type 1, you don't realise how much mental energy that takes, worrying about what your blood sugar is doing all day long. I want to go for a walk...what's my blood sugar doing? I want to eat...what's my blood sugar doing? I want to drive...what's my blood sugar doing? I want to sleep...what's my blood sugar doing? I don't feel quite right...what's my blood sugar doing? It's a full time job. Raw is ALSO a challenge mentally when you are starting out and I think having the two things to deal with can be really quite overwhelming. I think what I'm trying to say is that even if to others it looks like a person is not helping themselves when they "should" be, that might not be the case as it may have to be a long process. So Pitaya, hang on in there and be gentle with your Dad - might look like he is not bothering to do anything about his diabetes, but could be that already the mental seed has been sown by talking with you and he is already on his raw journey. You might already be helping him a lot ;)

[roseyonnex]

Juliebove,

I'm sorry you have Type II. I hate to see anybody suffer.

But I would like to know: Have you actually watched the movie????

[qnjnean]

would your dad go to gabriel cousin's 21 day program for diabetics?

[juliebove]

Juliebove,

I'm sorry you have Type II. I hate to see anybody suffer.

But I would like to know: Have you actually watched the movie????

No and I'm not going to. Anyone can say anything they want in a movie. I should know. I'm a writer!

I live the real life. There IS no cure for diabetes. I don't care what anyone says. There is so much we don't know about it still.

[saxmaam]

No and I'm not going to. Anyone can say anything they want in a movie. I should know. I'm a writer!

I live the real life. There IS no cure for diabetes. I don't care what anyone says. There is so much we don't know about it still.

Right. Don't let that paucity of information stand between you and a firm opinion.

[juliebove]

Right. Don't let that paucity of information stand between you and a firm opinion.


Whatever that means.

[saxmaam]

Whatever that means.

It means "If you believe that much is not known about diabetes, why are you so confident that there is no cure? Wouldn't you instead be interested in newly acquired information? Why don't you care what anyone says? Why read RawFoodTalk? Anyone can say anything on the internet, too."

[juliebove]

It means "If you believe that much is not known about diabetes, why are you so confident that there is no cure? Wouldn't you instead be interested in newly acquired information? Why don't you care what anyone says? Why read RawFoodTalk? Anyone can say anything on the internet, too."

I see newly acquired information all the time. I do not get my information from movies. I get it from valid medical sources. I am confident that there is no cure because if there was, we would ALL know about it. Unlike some people here I do not believe there is some conspiracy out there, withholding information from us because somehow they can make money by doing that.

I come here to discuss the raw diet. I go to the diabetes newsgroups to discuss diabetes. I just don't like it when people post lies like type 2 progressing to type 1 or that using insulin is a bandaid. Information like that can kill. I am serious.

[Raine]

Juliebove - I certainly respect your opinion.

I get the impression that many people are part of these discussion boards because mainstream medicine has led them astray. I know for a fact that is what happened in my case many years ago after a car wreck I was a passenger in.

Simply put, I don't trust doctors and I've not been to one in more than 10 years. Not only do I not know what my cholesterol levels are, I don't care. My theory is that mankind lived thousands of years without "doctors" and if the diet remains as close to the source as possible, we can continue to live many more years without their busyness wrecking havoc within our worlds.

In reality, it's only been in the last century that doctors even became mainstream and accessible to the populace. Before that, they were good for setting broken limbs or for the very wealthy. This influx of doctors, interestingly enough, emerged about the same time that meat consumption increased from a once in a while dish to a part of the the 3 square meals a day concept. Further, this is also the same time that heart disease, diabetes, etc., began increasing in the population.

Conspiracy? I'm not suggesting that. For me, it's an obvious trend that was a quasi-perfect storm between the medical profession and the destruction of our food sources by having all the additives and preservatives.

I understand you feel safe with the medical profession. I respect your choices. For some of us, we'll do anything we can to run the other way as fast as possible and put our faith in our chosen Higher Power rather than GlaxoSmithKline or Pfizer or Eli Lilly.

[Revvell]

I see newly acquired information all the time. I do not get my information from movies. I get it from valid medical sources. I am confident that there is no cure because if there was, we would ALL know about it.

There is also a cure for cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure AND diabetes.

We ALL don't know about it because many choose not to see.

One gent in the movie refused to believe diabetes 1 could be cured so he sabotaged any progress he was making until the end when he went down from 30 units a day to 5. His doctors told him that he'd never get off insulin. Now, he's potentially got a shot. He just has to choose to do what it takes. All the others DID get off insulin.

For me, I'm just putting it out there as an option. If you feel not to investigate, that's certainly your prerogative.

Revvell

[juliebove]

There is also a cure for cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure AND diabetes.

We ALL don't know about it because many choose not to see.

One gent in the movie refused to believe diabetes 1 could be cured so he sabotaged any progress he was making until the end when he went down from 30 units a day to 5. His doctors told him that he'd never get off insulin. Now, he's potentially got a shot. He just has to choose to do what it takes. All the others DID get off insulin.

For me, I'm just putting it out there as an option. If you feel not to investigate, that's certainly your prerogative.

Revvell


Again I beg to differ. If something is cured it will never come back. Ever! Cancer can go into remission. They never say it is cured. Cancer patients always have to go back to be checked.

I take pills for high BP, but it is not cured. If I stop taking the pills, it comes back.

I take turmeric and my psoriasis goes away. If I stop taking it, it comes back.

If something goes away because I change my diet, I haven't cured it. If I go back to eating the way I used to, it will come back. Or it might. That's not a cure.

[Revvell]

Yeah, that's why they are called lifestyle-caused diseases.. and no, cancer survivors choose to go back because it's always on their mind. Many have chosen not to and have changed their lifestyle and not re-created their disease.

I've seen what happens when people change their lifestyle which includes their food program and yes, they are cured. They've stopped doing what's creating the problem.

Enough said.

Revvell


Again I beg to differ. If something is cured it will never come back. Ever! Cancer can go into remission. They never say it is cured. Cancer patients always have to go back to be checked.

I take pills for high BP, but it is not cured. If I stop taking the pills, it comes back.

I take turmeric and my psoriasis goes away. If I stop taking it, it comes back.

If something goes away because I change my diet, I haven't cured it. If I go back to eating the way I used to, it will come back. Or it might. That's not a cure.

[roseyonnex]

Good posts Revvell! It is a lifestyle disease, and that's the difference.

Julie: I find it hard also to debate about a movie with somebody who refuses to even see the movie..........what's the point?

[Raine]

One of my favorite quotes is: "You get what you think about whether you want it or not."

Blood Pressure: For about 2 years I was at stroke level when it came to taking my BP. My face would get flushed and my resting heart rate was 100. One day I snapped and knew I was either going to get sucked back in to mainstream medicine or I was going to become pro-active about my health. I began a 30-day juice fast and threw in a couple cloves of garlic 2x a day. Within 7 days, my blood pressure was 110/70 and my resting heart rate was 60.

Diabetes: According to the statistics on how one becomes diabetic, I should have been a full blown diabetic years ago. I've stayed away from SAD, I religiously add Stevia to my diet (which regulates the blood sugar), I eat as close to nature as possible. When I venture to Florida to visit my mother and she jabs me with a needle to test my blood sugar, I'm always at the 80 mark.

Thankfully, I've never had to deal with cancer, however, esteemed author Louise Hay did battle it in the 70's and cured herself without mainstream medicine or surgery by releasing negative emotions and radically changing her diet.

In my opinion, can cancer be cured? Yes. Not just remission, but actually cured.

Can high blood pressure be cured? Yes and I'm proof of that.

Can diabetes be cured? I believe it can be controlled through diet and this opinion is based upon examples I've personally seen in my life.

Everyone has to find their own path to true health.

[saxmaam]

I guess I do have some common ground with juliebove about the meaning of "cure."

A cure in the case of diabetes would mean that the body produces normal amounts of insulin and the cells react normally to insulin in the blood. Probably other things, too.

The people in the movie (I haven't seen it ... and want to.) seem to have become able to manage their condition through a raw food diet instead of through medications. Personally, I think that's pretty cool. Some people call that a cure. People aren't always meticulous about the meaning of words. (I find that's problematic, but I get in trouble when I get picky about it:eek: ).

Has anyone with diabetes completely reversed the condition through diet? That would mean normal response to sugar. I'm guessing that hasn't been demonstrated. Maybe it's possible since new cells are created all the time. I hope it's true!

[roseyonnex]

There was one guy in the movie who had Type I and his pancreas did start to produce insulin again.

[saxmaam]

There was one guy in the movie who had Type I and his pancreas did start to produce insulin again.

Neat. If I was a wealthy philanthropist ... I'd fund research into "unprofitable" medical treatments. How exciting would that be?:D

[Lelê]

On a shallow-er note: I remember reading (and watching an interview) where Jason Mraz (the musician) says that he got into raw food because of his band mate Toca Rivera got Dx with diabetes. He decided to try raw food and Jason went along (as support) and fell in love with it.

I don't know how Toca's diabetes is right now, but he did lose a lot of weight...

[Revvell]

Has anyone with diabetes completely reversed the condition through diet? That would mean normal response to sugar.

What is the "normal" response to something that has no business being in our bodies in the first place? I'm talking about white processed sugar here, not sugar from eating fruit.

[saxmaam]

What is the "normal" response to something that has no business being in our bodies in the first place? I'm talking about white processed sugar here, not sugar from eating fruit.

What I mean by normal response is the response that a non-diseased person would have. If we're healthy, we can stand some intervals of poor nutrition. Our ancestors had times when they had no choice about this.

I think you're implying that we shouldn't eat the stuff, whether we are diabetic or not. I've got no argument with that!

[MiahTay]

I believe Sergi Boutenko was diagnosed Type 1 Diabetic and has reversed it, cured it, whatever you want to call it and does not require medication. Walnutty on this site has reversed her Type 2 Diabetes. My BP was creeping up and when I turned to RAW within a month it was WELL in the normal range. I agree with Revvell, how do we think our body is SUPPOSED to react to a toxic poison in our system like refined white sugar, refined white grains, cow milk and it's products that were created to feed a baby COW, meat, etc. RAW is healing and the possibilities are endless.

Blessings,
Heather

[Revvell]

What I mean by normal response is the response that a non-diseased person would have.

I understand yet, even that varies from person to person. One doesn't have to be diabetic to experience various reactions to eating sugar.



If we're healthy, we can stand some intervals of poor nutrition.

Of course, "healthy" being a relative term. :)


I think you're implying that we shouldn't eat the stuff, whether we are diabetic or not. I've got no argument with that!

Nope! Not implying. Saying... yep, you got it!!!

[Ilse W.]

juliebove - "Again I beg to differ. If something is cured it will never come back. Ever! Cancer can go into remission. They never say it is cured. Cancer patients always have to go back to be checked."

The reason cancer normally does not get "cured" is that allopathic medicine sees the tumor as the disease instead of realizing that it's just a symptom. Doctors employ surgery (which spreads tumor cells), chemotherapy (which poisons the body), and radiation (which kills far more than just tumor cells). This, they hope, will get rid of the cancer. It is a great industry, once you get sucked into it, they'll try to keep you alive long enough to make it worth the medical and pharma industry's while. Since they only get rid of the symptom (cancer is in remission), it eventually comes back. The person who realizes that cancer is not the tumor and thinks about what s/he is doing that causes such a great imbalance in the body that it is unable to keep itself symptom free will be able to change her/his lifestyle in a way that cancer is no longer a problem.
I have not gone to be "checked" in over three years. I refuse to subject myself any more to their machines, that can also cause cancer. I will never again put toxic chemicals into my body. Oncologists know that they cannot "cure" cancer. They call it a cure, if the patient stays tumor free for 5 years. If another tumor shows up anywhere in the body within the 5 years, they say it's the same cancer that came back.
Doctors are not "curing" or "not curing" cancer, or diabetes or any other degenerative disease. I call them "lifestyle diseases". The ONE thing we need to understand is that ONLY OUR BODY can cure itself. We can help it with what we put into it! It's as simple as that.

[roseyonnex]

Yeah, that's right, Emma. Also, a lot of times when the doctors have "cured" cancer with chemo or raditation, when the cancer finally does come back the person's immune system is so depleated from the previous chemo, the cancer will come back with a vengence.

[Raine]

Emma - what a fantastic response and wonderful insight from the road you traveled.

[juliebove]

juliebove - "Again I beg to differ. If something is cured it will never come back. Ever! Cancer can go into remission. They never say it is cured. Cancer patients always have to go back to be checked."

The reason cancer normally does not get "cured" is that allopathic medicine sees the tumor as the disease instead of realizing that it's just a symptom. Doctors employ surgery (which spreads tumor cells), chemotherapy (which poisons the body), and radiation (which kills far more than just tumor cells). This, they hope, will get rid of the cancer. It is a great industry, once you get sucked into it, they'll try to keep you alive long enough to make it worth the medical and pharma industry's while. Since they only get rid of the symptom (cancer is in remission), it eventually comes back. The person who realizes that cancer is not the tumor and thinks about what s/he is doing that causes such a great imbalance in the body that it is unable to keep itself symptom free will be able to change her/his lifestyle in a way that cancer is no longer a problem.
I have not gone to be "checked" in over three years. I refuse to subject myself any more to their machines, that can also cause cancer. I will never again put toxic chemicals into my body. Oncologists know that they cannot "cure" cancer. They call it a cure, if the patient stays tumor free for 5 years. If another tumor shows up anywhere in the body within the 5 years, they say it's the same cancer that came back.
Doctors are not "curing" or "not curing" cancer, or diabetes or any other degenerative disease. I call them "lifestyle diseases". The ONE thing we need to understand is that ONLY OUR BODY can cure itself. We can help it with what we put into it! It's as simple as that.

Again, I must disagree. I know several people who have had cancer, so I'm no stranger to it. I don't know what you mean about "machines". AFAIK, my husband hasn't been put on any kind of machine.

As for cures, I think perhaps the only things we can say have a cure are shots like mumps, measels, etc. If the person is innoculated, then it is most likely they will not ever get that disease. I realize there are exceptions to that as well. I think I read something about a faulty chicken pox virus.

[lafsalot]

Again, I must disagree. I know several people who have had cancer, so I'm no stranger to it. I don't know what you mean about "machines". AFAIK, my husband hasn't been put on any kind of machine.

As for cures, I think perhaps the only things we can say have a cure are shots like mumps, measels, etc. If the person is innoculated, then it is most likely they will not ever get that disease. I realize there are exceptions to that as well. I think I read something about a faulty chicken pox virus.

Re: the vaccines - NOT true!! Inflammatory response is necessary to create "real" immunity (those acquired naturally)- vaccines only "trick" the body so it does not complete the inflammatory response to the injected virus, and do often produce the disease it is intended to prevent!

AND since children have been given so many vaccines early in life, we're now seeing a double increase in learning disabilites, ADHD, autism, asthma [and] a tripling of diabetes [type 1, aka juvenile diabetes] The result? More and more people suffering from brain, cancer, and autoimmune disorders!

The only safe vaccine is one that is never used! ~ Cathy

[Raine]

Re: the vaccines - NOT true!! Inflammatory response is necessary to create "real" immunity (those acquired naturally)- vaccines only "trick" the body so it does not complete the inflammatory response to the injected virus, and do often produce the disease it is intended to prevent!

AND since children have been given so many vaccines early in life, we're now seeing a double increase in learning disabilites, ADHD, autism, asthma [and] a tripling of diabetes [type 1, aka juvenile diabetes] The result? More and more people suffering from brain, cancer, and autoimmune disorders!

The only safe vaccine is one that is never used! ~ Cathy

I don't use vaccines and I travel all over the world. I've also never had chicken pox, measles, mumps....all those "typical" kid diseases.

[petaltothemetal]

back to Pitaya's original thought... it is hard watching people you love take too many pills and believe their SAD doctors have their best interests in mind. I've been very worried about my mother and her health care, but she's made it clear she is happier if I show concern but go easy on the suggestions. My dad died of anaphylactic shock from two medicines taken together he had previously taken alone with no symptoms. My mother, who has been through colon/liver chemo and has kidney, allergy and heart trouble, is on a dozen or more meds, one of them being high blood pressure medicine. Now she has low blood pressure and fainted over the weekend. I want to go with her to the doctors and shake some sense into these people and to bring her to live with me and eat good food and heal. But when they are resistant, all you can do is hint, smile and wait.

[tanishamarshall]

I truly understand how you feel, as I have several people I know that would definitley benefit from eating raw. Most people don't want to give up there cooked meals, and some even know it's killing them. Cooked Food is so addicting, I didn't realize it until I went raw.

I think that you did the best you could by sharing about raw, but now I think being the example is all you can do. I believe when he realize how this is affecting him and that there is a solution, he will come to, or it might be possible that he won't, but I'd like to believe that he will. I think the fact that you made him aware is enough so that when he's ready he will call on you.

There is someone close in my life that I so want to eat raw or at least a high percentage of raw and for a while they didn't want to, I didn't force and I am not saying you did, because I don't believe you did that, but just recently they came to me and said I want to change up some things and would like your help.

It's amazing how just being the example can really inspire people.

I hope your Dad comes around soon, I know you would be so so happy.

[EZ rider]

I think Diabetes is a disease caused by eating animal fat. I think a vegan diet and especially a raw vegan diet is an option worth checking out in my opinion.

[juliebove]

I think Diabetes is a disease caused by eating animal fat. I think a vegan diet and especially a raw vegan diet is an option worth checking out in my opinion.


That's really a bunch of hooey. There are vegan diabetics!

[EZ rider]

I suppose your right "There are vegan diabetics". After thinking about it some more would it be alright if I amended my previous statement ? If so here is what my thinking is after considering your post "There are vegan diabetics".
I think Fats contribute greatly to diabetes especially the "stickier" saturated animal fats.The fats tend to plug up the insulin receptor sites rendering the insulin less effective. Therefore a mostly vegan diet and especially a mostly raw vegan diet would be helpful in avoiding diabetes and/or repairing the damage done by diabetes. I think a 100% low fat fresh raw vegan diet (like the 80-10-10 diet for example) would be the most helpful diet. Of course this is my opinion and opinions are like noses - everyones got one. :) My opinion should not be taken as medical advise as I am not a Doctor, merely a seeker of better health and wellness.

[Jubner]

Pitaya,
Thank you for sharing your story and opening yourself up. I lost my father 5 years ago after he was diagnosed with type II diabetes. He was only 64 and enjoyed a vibrant life. How I wish I had discovered the curative properties of eating raw so that I could have shared it with him. He

My biggest learning from this experience is that our life journey is different for each of us and requires of us to be loving and compassionate. We are humans having a physical experience.

Thanks again for sharing. Your love and intentions resonate through each and every sentence for your father.

[zzblond]

Hello, I am new here as of today. I am very interested in this thread about diabetes and raw foods. I am a type two diabetic of 25 years and have just recently started looking into the raw foods lifestyle as an option to reverse my diabetes. I purchased Alissa's book a while back and the DVD. I have dabbled a little in making some of the meals but have not made the jump to 100% raw 100% of the time yet. Since then I have been reading everything I can and have found myself in a vast land of different opinion in the raw food world. I own the movie "Raw for 30 Days" along with many other movies about the raw vegan belief. I have spent years searching for an answer to diabetes and the raw foodist community is the only folks who are offering any kind of hope. The medical community offers no hope for a cure or even a good way of controlling and preventing the dreaded compications. The best they have at this time is gastric bypass surgery and I personally do not wish to rewire my insides or possibly die on the operating table if I can avoid it. So I would be interested in connecting with any one here who has made the jump to 100% raw foods and reversed their diabetes. I did go 100% raw for a week, lost 6 pounds that week and my blood sugar dropped from 200 to 135 with out insulin. So I know there is something to be gained here. I would welcome a buddy to help me through becoming raw and staying raw. Someone who has or is doing it. Would there be anyone interested in helping me? It would be much appreciated. Thanks, ~zz