None So Blind….
… as will not see.
Recently a thread was started on a forum about the movie Simply Raw, Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days and the poster was celebrating that people CAN cure themselves of diabetes.
One person came on and said there was no cure and that ” I am confident that there is no cure because if there was, we would ALL know about it.”
As I was out walking, I was considering this statement… ALL would know about it! How? Even SHE, on a raw food board, refuses to look at the movie. She is steadfast that there IS no cure. Being certain that there are many like her out there, if there was a cure, how would they know? If they refuse to look outside their little world of doctors and drugs, how will they know? Even one of the participants in the movie heard from doctors since he was a child (juvenile diabetes) that he would ALWAYS have to take insulin and that diabetes can never be cured and he, being diagnosed with diabetes 1, dropped his insulin from 30 daily units to 5.
My question is, how is it a lifestyle-caused disease (diabetes 2, not 1 which, I am informed, is an immune-system disease ~ see comment #1 below) cannot be cured? Answer seems fairly simple ~ stop doing what’s causing the problem. Overweight? Change your food program, get out and move, find out what the need is which is being replaced by food and fill it. High Cholesterol? Animal products are the only “foods” that contain cholesterol ~ stop eating them! Heart disease? Again, animal products, plus caffeine and/or nicotene, and/or alcohol and, lack of movement.
Yes, I hear the excuses. My suggestion ~ stop looking for excuses for why you can’t and start finding reasons and ways for how you can. Life and health are simpler than we make it. Live and living food, water, rest, movement, appreciations and making conscious choices will get you where you want to be and yes, it is that simple… just not always that easy … yet like many things it just takes making the first step.. then following that with the next step and the next…
Injoy,
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Tags: diabetes, disease, health, lifestyle, Living Food, movement, rawfood, Revvell
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:34 am
Hi Just want to clarify: Type 1 diabetes is NOT a lifestyle disease. Type 2 is. Let me explain. Yes, Type 2, in which the body still produces insulin but has trouble using it, is triggered by weight gain, sedentary lifestyle and other things. Making changes to those things can often help a person. HOWEVER, Type 1 is an AUTOIMMUNE disease. Something — and researchers still don’t know what, triggers the person’s T cells in the immune system to reverse and attack the beta cells of the pancreas, destroying the insulin producing cells. NOTHING a person did “caused” it and nothing they can do will change that (until researchers find a way to reverse the autoimmunity). My daughter was young (5), thin active (tennis, swimming, playground, biking, skiing, soccer) and well cared for when she was diagnosed. You need to remove this post. It’s wrong and hurtful to those of us searching for a cure.
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:18 am
With re: to the previous post -
I don’t see it as “wrong and hurtful to those looking for a cure”. If you are a follower of the raw forums, then you are well aware of the countless testmonials given by others (w autoimmune diseases) that attest to the fact that they have experienced dramatic improvements once they made the transition. Feeling a helluva lot better, even in the event it does not afford the ultimate “cure” for all, IS definitely a step in the right direction!