Friday, April 02, 2010
I recently had the opportunity to watch a film by Dr. Gabriel Cousens on reversing diabetes naturally and I was really inspired and blown away by the results. Even though genetics play a huge role in one’s chance of getting type 2 diabetes, most of us are also aware that diet and lifestyl...
I think it's dangerous to talk about curing type 2.
You can control it, so that as long as you stick to some regimen your BG levels will remain normal. But you're not cured in the sense that if you reverted to your old eating patterns your BG levels would go up. They wouldn't in a person who didn't have diabetes.
Part of the cause of type 2 diabetes is a genetic defect in the beta cells that doesn't allow them to secrete enough insulin when challenged, for example in late pregnancy or when eating a lot of carbohydrate on a typical American diet.
Eating raw food will not regenerate beta cells.
Furthermore, someone diagnosed in early stages can often control with diet alone. But people who are diagnosed later, when most of their beta cells have been destroyed, may need drugs no matter what diet they go on.
Telling them they'd be cured if they follow some fad diet is not kind.