Enerji Sisters

Picking up from where I last left you, in early April I began Googling raw food because I had no idea what raw food was except the obvious: an apple out of the fridge and baby carrots as a snack.  I eventually found a great website geared towards diabetics following raw diets to help them reverse their condition.  I read other people’s posts about “going raw” and found good books to purchase to help me understand this new diet.  The books are “There is a cure for Diabetes” and “Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisine” by Dr. Gabriel Cousens.

Immediately, I ordered these books online at www.abebooks.com.

I also visited the Mecklenburg County library online system and picked up several different books, one of the most helpful being “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Raw Foods”- this book is very easy to follow and great for anyone thinking about incorporating more raw foods into their diet.  It starts with the basics and helps us understand all of the raw terminology out there like soaking, sprouting, dehydrating, etc.

Honestly, I was skeptical initially because the medical community has told me for 7 years that I will always be on insulin and that my pancreas is dead, meaning it can never function correctly again.   So to read about other diabetics who have reversed their diabetes by eating natural, raw foods gave my skeptical self a bit of hope.  I assumed the only ones reversing their disease were Type 2’s (T2’s).  As I dug further in my research, I realized some Type 1’s (like me) have either lowered their insulin needs so much that they only need 5-7 units a day or no longer inject insulin because their pancreas is now producing insulin on its own!  (If you are confused about the difference between T1 and T2 diabetes, please read my first blog on this subject).  Once I read these books, I decided to slowly introduce more and more raw foods into my daily meals.  This will be the subject of my next blog.  Thanks again for reading about my on-going journey to reversing diabetes naturally!