Raw for 30 days

After reading Cousens book There is a Cure for Diabetes as mentioned previously I watched the DVD Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 days.  The DVD follows six people, five have type 2 diabetes and on has type one.  The DVD ‘chronicles six Americans with diabetes who switch to a diet consisting of vegan, organic, live, raw foods in order to reverse diabetes naturally.  The participants are challenged to give up meat, dairy, sugar, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, soda, junk food, fast food, processed food, packaged food and even cooked food’ (www.RAWFOR30DAYS.com).

What a challenge!

‘Meat, dairy, sugar, alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, soda, junk food, fast food, processed food, packaged food and cooked food is the typical staple diet of people in the UK too.  Other than the nicotine and alcohol this is also my typical diet, with the addition of lots of chocolate.  I am addicted to chocolate and although I have tried to make raw chocolate I need more practice to make it give me the chocolate buzz I need.

The switch proved to be hard for different reason on the people taking part in the challenge with one person leaving before the end of the 30 days.

 But did it work? 

Read for yourself.  Americans sugar readings are slightly different from ours, to give you a base to understand the readings a normal blood sugar reading after eating should be 140 or less.  This is the results that I took from the DVD.

Male 1 (type 2) by week 4 he was off his medication and his blood sugars had dropped 214 points to as low as 73 without the medication.  His total cholesterol dropped from 216 to 160. (According to Cousens he is cured!)

Male 2 (type 2) was on 19 different medications (it makes you wonder what they were giving him; it’s a crazy amount of meds!). By week 4 he was off his medication and his blood sugars had dropped from 219 points to as low as 74 WITHOUT any of the meds.  He also lost 32lbs (2 stone 3lbs)

Female 1 (type 2) by week 4 she was off his medication and her blood sugars had dropped 291 points to as low as 109 without the medication.  Her total cholesterol dropped from 257 to 171 and she lost 23lbs in weight (1 stone 6 lbs). (According to Cousens she is cured!)

Female 2 (type 2 by week 4s he was off her medication and her blood sugars had dropped 167 points to as low as 112 without the medication.  Her blood pressure at the start of the 30 days was 135/76 by week 4 it was 120/64 and she lost 26lbs in weight (1 stone 9lbs) (According to Cousens she is cured!)

Male (type 1) by week 4 he had reduced his insulin intake from 70 units to 5 units per day. His blood pressure had lowered and he had lost 20 lbs in weight (1 stone 4lbs).

At the start of the DVD Cousens suggests that a high fibre, high carbohydrate, low fat, low protein diet is the only diet that will work.  Not everyone is cured especially if you have type one.  Cured or not this lifestyle change is promising.