How does a diabetic eat RAW? with all the sugar's and carbohydrates that are usually avoided on a Diabetic Diet?

I am a type 1 diabetic and have been eating raw off and on for over ten years. When you are raw for an extended period of time, the body becomes more sensitive to insulin. Of course, it helps not to eat too many combo-bombo recipes as it may cause a rise in blood sugars hours later.

Check out www.livingandhealingraw.com, a type-1 diabetics website about diabetes and eating raw.

The thing about sugar and carbs is that you still want to limit your carbs in order to lower the amount of insulin you take, but the quality of natural sugars and carbs in fruits and vegetables will affect your blood sugars far less than regular sugar and starchy carbs like bread.

You have to experiment with different types of foods to see how they affect your blood glucose levels.

Hope this helps!

There's a documentary film in the making which features 6 diabetics, and what happens when they go raw for 30 days:

[www.rawfor30days.com]

This actress eats raw (non-vegan though) because of blood sugar. I wonder exactly how much she does eat of non-vegan, is it like a sunday dinner or holiday meal lapse or an everyday thing?

[www.contactmusic.com]

THE OC star KELLY ROWAN shuns all of the catering on the set of her hit TV show - because she only eats raw food.

The 37-year-old actress, who plays KIRSTEN COHEN in the drama, has steered clear of cooked and processed foods for a large number of years, and it's meant preparing her own meals whenever she goes to work.

She says, "I don't eat any refined carbohydrates. I eat sprouted rice, I eat raw meat... nothing processed.

"I've been doing it for 12 years and I've never been sick. I eat raw dairy; anything the body can assimilate. It's great, 'cause you don't feel like you're on a diet. I get so angry that women always feel that they're on some kind of diet because as soon as that happens you feel like you're in deprivation mode.

"I had hyperglycaemia when I was in my late 20s. I was really tired and I couldn't figure out why. I kept going to doctors and they kept saying to me, 'You're fine,' and I said, 'Well I'm not fine. I don't feel great,' and that sort of prompted (the diet)."

But Rowan does deviate from her strict eating plan for just one treat.

She adds, "If I really want a piece of chocolate, which is my weakness, I will have a piece of chocolate."



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/01/2006 09:10PM by Lillianswan.

That's an amazing video sunshine, thanx for linking. Gabriel Cousens has seen and coached dozens plus, cases of diabetes to completely reverse their condition

Lillianswan Wrote:
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> This actress eats raw (non-vegan though) because
> of blood sugar. I wonder exactly how much she does
> eat of non-vegan, is it like a sunday dinner or
> holiday meal lapse or an everyday thing?
>
> [www.contactmusic.com]
> pages/rowans%20raw%20food%20diet
>
> THE OC star KELLY ROWAN shuns all of the catering
> on the set of her hit TV show - because she only
> eats raw food.
>
> The 37-year-old actress, who plays KIRSTEN COHEN
> in the drama, has steered clear of cooked and
> processed foods for a large number of years, and
> it's meant preparing her own meals whenever she
> goes to work.
>
> She says, "I don't eat any refined carbohydrates.
> I eat sprouted rice, I eat raw meat... nothing
> processed.
>
> "I've been doing it for 12 years and I've never
> been sick. I eat raw dairy; anything the body can
> assimilate. It's great, 'cause you don't feel like
> you're on a diet. I get so angry that women always
> feel that they're on some kind of diet because as
> soon as that happens you feel like you're in
> deprivation mode.
>
> "I had hyperglycaemia when I was in my late 20s. I
> was really tired and I couldn't figure out why. I
> kept going to doctors and they kept saying to me,
> 'You're fine,' and I said, 'Well I'm not fine. I
> don't feel great,' and that sort of prompted (the
> diet)."
>
> But Rowan does deviate from her strict eating plan
> for just one treat.
>
> She adds, "If I really want a piece of chocolate,
> which is my weakness, I will have a piece of
> chocolate."


Good for her. I hope she is eating organic (if she's eating meat and dairy).

What is the OC anyway (I've been out of the television loop for years now)?