Most food are made of some sort of sugar..."sugar" is much more than table sugar or the most obvious forms of simple sugar. There is sugar in raw veggies for example. Insulin is an important part of converting food into energy.
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Add daily essential oils to your life.
Specifically myrrh and ocotea. You can take Young Living products by mouth. I'd also recommend rubbing them on daily and diffusing them daily. If you want to sign up, message me.
I use them every day for every thing. I treat with them as well, and have great success. They have lowered my blood pressure and cure my illnesses. I am hoping they protect me from cancer.
http://theocoteanewsletter.com/2012/09/17/diabetes-and-young-living-essential-oil-products/
What illnesses have these substances cured?
Control what you can control. The results will follow, but there are no guarantees, just probabilities. As research progresses, there may well be better treatments in the near future. Keep plugging away. In addition avoid negative people as much as possible and avoid unnecessary negativity in general.I'm gratefully as a type 2 diabetic that some on here get this. I am near my ideal weight and eat right and am still on insulin and pills. I find it offensive that someone would suggest I would be cured if I would just eat better.
It simply isn't that easy for some people
This was interesting and unexpected. I ran across the work of Dr. Walter Kempner. He was a refuge from NAZI Germany that came to America finding work at Duke Medical school. There he conducted dietary work specializing in reversing type 2 diabetes and kidney disease. He created a bland high carb, rice and fruit diet, at least for the initial phase of the eating plan for patients. He was famous in his day with wealthy individuals and celebrities flocking to his clinics (Rice Houses) to control their diabetes, kidney disease and loose weight. He is viewed as helping create Duke Medical school into becoming a well known dietary pioneering school.
His dietary plan, and some pictures of some patients can be seen at:
http://rawfoodsos.com/2015/10/06/in-defense-of-low-fat-a-call-for-some-evolution-of-thought-part-1/
excerpt from a long article:
"...Here’s one for the Paradox Files.
In the 1930s, a man by the name of Walter Kempner fled an increasingly Jew-hostile Germany and landed square in the halls of Duke University… where he proceeded to totally blow the medical community’s mind. His mission: treat kidney disease. His solution: put renal-failing folks on a special diet low in sodium, protein, and fat—a menu devised from in vitro experiments he’d done on kidney tissue.
At the time, very few researchers believed that food could have any effect on kidney disease. Or high blood pressure. Or diabetes. Or heart disease. Or most other chronically wrong-going things in the body. As with Ancel Keys, who was pretty much laughed out of the WHO conference where he presented his “fat causes heart disease” idea, Kempner spent the first chunk of his career swimming upstream in a river of skepticism.
But his colleagues’ dubiousness didn’t last long. After placing patient after so-called-hopeless patient on his unique regimen, it became clear that Kempner’s diet worked. Really ridiculously well. And it became equally clear that the kidney wasn’t the only body part made happy by the new cuisine. Obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, heart failure, coronary artery disease, psoriasis, and arthritis often saw major improvement or total reversal as a result of the diet. During the course of his career, Kempner treated over 18,000 patients with the above conditions—all by changing what went on the stabby end of their forks.
So what was in this mystical diet of his? Brace yourself!
…And not a darned thing else. Kempner summed up the details himself in a 1974 article, readable here:
- White rice
- Fruit
- Fruit juice
- Refined table sugar
- In some cases, vitamin supplements (A, D, thiamine, riboflavin, and niacin)
A patient takes an average of 250 to 350 gm. of rice (dry weight) daily; any kind of rice may be used provided no sodium, chloride, milk, etc. has been added during its processing. … All fruit juices and fruits are allowed, with the exception of nuts, dates, avocados and any dried or canned fruit or fruit derivatives to which substances other than white sugar have been added. Not more than one banana a day should be taken. White sugar and dextrose may be used ad libitum; on an average a patient takes about 100 grams daily, but, if necessary, as much as 500 grams daily should be used. Tomato and vegetable juices are not allowed.
In other words, it was the CARBPOCALYPSE. Along with feasting on impressive amounts of white rice, people were averaging 100 grams of pure sugar a day, and some ate over a pound of it. That’s up to 2,000 calories from refined sugar alone—the same amount deliciously packed into 25 Cadbury Creme Eggs.
(Wisely, Kempner knew his diet was at no risk of being crowned Dietary Homecoming Queen. He apparently described it as a “monotonous and tasteless diet which would never become popular,” and whose only saving grace was the fact that it worked. And as I mentioned in my AHS presentation, he apparently whipped some of his patients in order to help them comply, as—in his words—”the risk to their life was so great that it warranted harshness.” Ouch!)
Here’s a breakdown of how the diet panned out, macronutrient-wise. Image from Duke University files; red graffiti my own doing, to indicate percent of total calories:
...What’s really noteworthy is that the diet wasn’t automatically calorie restricted. In fact, some patients had to increase their energy intake to help them gain weight, or to stabilize their weight if they were losing too much. That’s important, because it means we can’t write this off as a diet that improved biomarkers solely by inducing weight loss (Twinkie Diet, I bow in your general direction). It also means that many people spontaneously ate less than they needed when stuffing their faces with unlimited amounts of starch and sugar… as long as fat intake was super low.
If this seems totally baffling and Twilight-Zoney, that’s because it is. According to my calculations, there is an 84% chance that you are now Googling “rice diet Snopes” or contacting my mother to inquire about my recent psychotic break (joke’s on you; she thinks I’m great!). I urge you to keep reading, though, because we’re about to get to the ooey, gooey data at the center of this carb-filled Tootsie Pop..."
Hi. This is interesting for sure.
The only comment I have is that we know cancer loves sugar. Most alternative cancer treatments therefore advocate leaving off ALL dextrose or added sugar in food, and just eating whole foods.
This diet might help the diabetes and kidney profile but I would wager that it increases cancer risk.
Thank you~
I have type 2 diabetes and was wondering if there is any cure for this disease.I lived with it for years and it is quite hard to live with cause of the sweets out there I like to try. I know god can make me a stronger person but for some reason I can have doubts. I do not like to live like this with diabetes. And is there any cure for this disease or not? I wish I didn't have it.
I forgot when I was diagnosed with diabetes so I can't explain any farther.