Today is World Diabetes Day. According to their website, “World Diabetes Day raises global awareness of diabetes. “The campaign calls on all those responsible for diabetes care to take control of diabetes.” Diabetes Education and Prevention is the World Diabetes Day theme for the period 2009-2013.”
As the organization rightly notes, diabetes is on a extremely rapid rise. “The last thirty years have seen a rapid increase in type 2 diabetes. In 1985, an estimated 30 million people worldwide had diabetes. A little over a decade later, the figure had risen to over 150 million. Today, according to IDF figures, it exceeds 285 million. Unless action is taken to implement effective prevention and control programmes, IDF predicts that the total number of people with diabetes will reach 435 million by 2030.”
Education and Prevention are extremely necessary. But rather than directly addressing cause and effect, the site focuses on “risk factors”, noting overweight, lack of exercise, and “unhealthy diet”, among others. It’s funny though how “Education and Prevention” can mean totally different things to different people. For the International Diabetes Organization and the over 12 drug companies that sponsor World Diabetes Day it means educating people about how they can “manage” their diabetes with insulin. For the team that made the film “Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days” it means educating people on how they can prevent and even reverse diabetes with a raw and living foods diet. Check out the trailer to the video here.
Below is another short video interview of a woman (not related to the above study) who also reversed her diabetes by eating raw and living foods. This one by Paul Nison. There are plenty more too, but this is a good start for you today.
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Lisa
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