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Diabetes Awareness Day - Take Action and Change Your World!

Do you know what happens when you bring together 53 experts from the raw food world in support of The Movement to Reverse Diabetes Naturally?

YOU get a lot of cool stuff!

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These 53 experts are giving away a TON  of goodies in support of Reversing Diabetes Action Day and the film "Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days."  There are 11 E-books, hours of audios, hundreds of recipes, an entire magazine, valuable coupons and more!

This film is a must see for diabetics AND non-diabetics. If  you haven't yet seen this film NOW is the time!  
Just click  on this link to learn more about the film and all of these goodies:

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days

If you have picked up a copy already then get another copy of the film for a friend, neighbor or your  local library so that you can get all of these bonuses for yourself!   :)

This film is SO powerful in opening up people, both diabetics and non-diabetics, to the importance of raw and living foods and we need to get it out to more people!

Help us spread the word!

Check it out right away and make sure to support The Movement to Reverse Diabetes Naturally.  It is doing some important and powerful work!


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Diabetes Total Cost: $218 Billion!
The Raw Food & Diabetes

Diabetes Total Cost: $218 BILLION

I want to share this mind-boggling article published by Associated Press with you:

"As diabetes is rapidly becoming one of the world's most common diseases, its financial cost is mounting, too, to well over $200 billion a year in the U.S. alone, according to a new study.

The study, released Tuesday, puts the total at $218 billion last year — the first comprehensive estimate of the financial toll diabetes takes, according to Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk A/S, which paid for the study.

That figure includes direct medical care costs, from insulin and pills for controlling patients' blood sugar to amputations and hospitalizations, plus indirect costs such as lost productivity, disability and early retirement.

The $218 billion amounts to about 10 percent of all U.S. health care spending by government and the public, about $2.1 trillion in 2006, and nearly half the $448.5 billion cost of heart disease and stroke.

The Raw Food Diet and Diabetes

November 14th is World Diabetes Day.

According to the American Diabetes Association:

* 23.6 millions Americans have diabetes.
* Estimated 5.7 million have it but are not diagnosed.
* There was 45% increase in diabetes since 1987.
* 44% of kidney failure incidents are caused by diabetes.
* 12,000 - 24,000 people go blind each year due to diabetes complications.
* 1 out of 3 Americans born in 2000 will develop diabetes if current trends continue.

As you can see, this is a serious problem. Not only does it affect the United States, but this degenerative disease is also spreading across the world.

Reversing the Irreversible - Review

Winner of Green Apple Award at 2008 Raw Lifestyle Film Festival, "Reversing the Irreversible" is an inspiring documentary created by Valya Boutenko, the daughter of Victoria Boutenko.

Valya has been raw for 15 years and co-authored several books and an award-winning documentary with her family members. While travelling around the United States and Canada, Valya has encountered many men and women who healed themselves of various health condition with the help of the raw food diet.

In this eye-opening documentary, people present their amazing transformations to health from numerous conditions:

Breast Cancer Depression

Prostate Cancer Osteoporosis

Diabetes Rheumatoid Arthritis

Multiple Sclerosis Digestive Issues

Fibromyalgia Migraines

Health Disease Allergies

Hormone Imbalances High Blood Pressure

Seizures Sinus Problems

Psoriasis Skin Problems

Asthma Eczema

Besides curing these and many other health conditions, many of the participants reported the following benefits:

Mental Clarity Clear Skin

Stronger Teeth Intuition

Clear Vision Sense of Self

More Energy Weight Loss

I was delighted to see some familiar faces (Karen Knowler, Philip McCluskey, and Charles Balcer) among the interviewees.

Although not educational per se, this documentary would make a wonderful addition to your DVD library and is the best DVD to share with your family and friends who might be skeptical of your new found lifestyle. Hearing these amazing stories of healing and survival would make anyone a believer! As they say, a picture's worth a thousand words.

Reversing the Irreversible:37 Testimonials of People Who Improved Their Health Naturally

As Valya says at the beginning of her documentary, "Being well is as natural as water flowing and being unwell is as natural as water flowing backwards. Health is our birthright."

Enjoy the DVD and share it with your friends and family!

Other great documentaries to consider:

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days

Food Matters

Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days - Review

“Diabetes is a chronic disease that has no cure.”

The American Diabetes Association

Our world is facing a pandemic of diabetes. 246 million people all over the world currently suffer from this disease. 1 of 3 kids born after 2000 will get diabetes.  Diabetes costs our nation $174 billion each year.

This statistics are staggering, but Dr. Gabriel Cousens is on a mission to prove most doctors wrong.

How? By putting his diabetes type 2 (and some type 1) patients on high fiber, low fat and low sugar diet, which means eating raw organic fruit, vegetables, sprouts, nuts and seeds.

The latest documentary called Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days follows 6 people who come to the Tree of Life (Dr. Cousens’ center in Arizona) and agree to eat nothing but raw foods for 30 days in hopes to cure their “incurable” disease.  They come from different parts of the country and their ages range from 25 to 68. They all take numerous medications and insulin shots daily. They’ve been told by their doctors that they will have to endure it for the rest of their lives.  But these brave souls were willing to take a chance.

And their journey is not easy by any means. Every one of the participants faces challenges, struggles, ups and downs. Each one has personal demons to face and it’s curious to see how they handle it all.

The food part is hard. The first time they see their first raw food meal, you can literally see it on their faces: “What the hell is that? Where is “real” food? OMG, I am going to die here – what have I done?!”  Sadly, most of us forgot what natural food looks and tastes like, we forgot how to eat slowly or mindfully.  But raw chocolate was always a big hit!

The results of this experiment speak for themselves: by day 3 half of the group have been taken off insulin, by week 2 most had their blood sugar down 200+ points. By the end of the program, all but one person (who had Type 1) were off their meds, insulin shots free, had lost 20-30 pounds each, and their blood pressure was normal.

This movie brought up several important issues for me.

Let Thy Food Be Thy Medicine...

I am finally back home and on my computer. My mom had a surgery and I stayed with her for four days catering to her every need – that’s what good daughters are for, right?  Her doctor gave her a clean bill of health today so I was released of my duties and sent back.

Saturday I hosted a screening of a new, ground-breaking documentary “Food Matters”. Due to heavy rain about a third of attendees didn’t make it but 8 people were brave enough to overcome meteorological challenges to get educated.  As a raw food coach, I put together a nice spread of various fresh organic fruit and made a pitcher of refreshing and sweet watermelon juice (yum!).  The table looked amazingly colorful and mouth-watering, and even though most of my guests were not into raw foods (just raw curious J) they still appreciated getting some delicious and healthy food.

The documentary was met with great enthusiasm and lively discussion afterwards.  Created by two nutritionists, James Colquhoun and Luarentine Ten Bosch, this movie embarks on a journey of exploration of health, true causes of disease, and nutritional therapy, which is more effective, less harmful, and more economical than current modern medicine.

Here are some interesting facts and bits of information: 

1. Modern medicine revolves around “a pill for every ill” and it wants to keep it that way.
2. Good health makes a lot of sense but it doesn’t make a lot of money.
3. 39,000 people die each year due to unnecessary surgery and other errors in hospital.  80,000 die due to other infections in hospitals.  106,000 die due to adverse drug reactions. Total of 225,000, which makes modern medicine a third killer in USA after cancer and heart disease.
4. Less than 6% of graduating physicians receive any training in nutrition.
5. Most of produce we buy in a store is at least a week old and has less tan 40% of its nutritional value left; this produce comes from depleted soil, that lacks essential vitamins and minerals and produces deficient vegetation; and then we cook it
6. When we eat more than 51% of our meal cooked, our body starts a process called digestive leucocytosis, meaning, our body reacts to cooked food as if it’s being invaded by virus.
7. People are chronically malnourished.
8. The body can heal any disease if provided with proper nutrition. A healthy body will not, cannot develop cancer or any other chronic disease for that matter.
9. It is illegal in this country to treat cancer with nutritional therapy; the only legal means are surgery, chemo, radiation (and they have proven to be highly unsuccessful and incredibly harmful).
10. Dentists are not allowed by law to say that mercury is toxic.
11. Bill William, founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, discovered that giving a patient 3000mg of Niacin (B3) was effective in treating depression and getting people off alcohol.  Unfortunately, pharmaceutical companies pushed this research out and replaced it with prescription drugs.

The movie presents tremendous amount of information and features such brilliant men and women as:

Charlotte Gerson, founder of Gerson Institute

Andrew W. Soul, Ph.D., therapeutic nutrition specialist (brilliant man and has the kindest smile I’ve seen in a man)

Jerome Burne, medical journalist

David Wolfe, one of the biggest promoters of raw foods and superfoods

Dr. Victor Zeines, DDS – hosistic dentist and nutritionist

Professor Ian Brighthope

Dr. Dan Rogers, MD, NMD – Gerson Plus Therapy

Phillip Day, investigative journalist

This is a fantastic and very educative documentary and I strongly recommend anyone who reads this post to check it out.   The wealth of information it provides is priceless and the benefits of receiving this valuable knowledge just may make a difference in the quality of your life.  To learn more or to purchase this DVD please CLICK HERE.

Food Matters - a Groundbreaking Documentary

“Let thy Food be thy Medicine and thy Medicine be thy Food” – Hippocrates. 

That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in the controversial new documentary film  Food Matters  from Producer-Directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch. 

The filmmakers have interviewed several world leaders in nutrition and natural healing who claim that not only are we harming our bodies with improper nutrition, but that the right kind of foods, supplements and detoxification can be used to treat chronic illnesses as fatal as terminally diagnosed cancer. 

The focus of the film is in helping us rethink the belief systems fed to us by our modern medical and health care establishments. The interviewees point out that not every problem requires costly, major medical attention and reveal many alternative therapies that can be more effective, more economical, less harmful and less invasive than conventional medical treatments. 

The production has remained independently funded from start to finish. “We wanted to remain as unbiased as possible in the way that we presented this information to the public,” says James, “especially on such a sensitive topic”.  

 

The film’s official trailer and website can be found at www.foodmatters.tv. 

How Humane Are We, Really?

I recently had a privilege of watching a documentary called “The Horse: Crucified & Risen”.  Terrifying and beautiful at the same time, this documentary is a masterpiece.

Created by Alexander Nevzorov, a Russian horse trainer who created Haute Ecole, a training school for horses that does not use metal rops or whips but love and patience with amazing results.  He created this documentary to reveal the true nature of equine sport and what horrors the horses endure during their short lives within this sport. I won’t go into much detail here, I really suggest you buy this DVD and watch it if you can.

Seeing the scope of pain inflicted on these gracious, intelligent beings really drove it home.  As a child I was mesmerized by horses, I never feared them, but always felt that they are these magnificent creatures with intelligent equal to our own.  A few years back I went to a petting zoo with my friend and her little son who wanted to see the animals.  I saw a gorgeous black horse in one of the corners and as I approached it the horse came up to me and put her head on my shoulder almost wrapping me with its neck as if hugging me.  I closed my eyes and for several minutes all thoughts left my head.  I felt deep peace and union with this animal, there was no separation, and at that very moment we were one.  To this day just a memory of that experience brings tears of joy to my eyes. 8 years ago I became a vegetarian because I could no longer eat meat and feel good about myself afterwards.

I was never a fan of horse races being quite aware of the pain and physical strains being causes to horses. I knew that most of the horses died early from disease and traumas.  However, when it came to equine sport, I never made that connection.  Somehow I believed that the sportsmen truly cared about their horses and that sport was more about a union of a man and an animal.

Boy, was I wrong!  The equine sport may just as well the cruelest sport there is out there that involves animals.  The documentary showed the unbelievable pain that is caused by the metal rods in horse’s mouth, the whips, the unnatural twisting of a horse’s neck for “pose” that caused muscle tears, spinal injuries, and eventual painful death to an animal. Most veterinarians agree that the horses are inflicted insane amount of pain during competitions and that the equine sport is cruel and violent and should be stopped.

So how did we come to this point? When did we, humans, become so disconnected from nature that causing unbearable sufferings to other creatures we consider entertaining and fun and even worthy of awards? I can hardly imagine one team member of a football team beating the hell out of another just so that teammate would perform. We act “civilized” towards other people, why don’t we do the same towards other intelligent creatures?

I have no doubt in my mind that the hardening of our hearts came from our dietary choices.  The first kill a man made for food separated himself from nature.  This was the true fall of humanity, not a Biblical apple.  For hundreds of years, at least, a man treated animals with respect and even when killing them for food there were rituals performed and gratitude was expressed towards the animal who was sacrificing its life for a man’s.  However, the growth of agriculture and meat/dairy industry brought even those practices to end. The more animal products we consume, the more disconnected we become from our consciousness and nature.  We’ve reached the point where we commit mass murders of animals on a daily basis and pretend that nothing is happening.  I think it was Gandhi (I may be wrong) who said that as long as we ate meat we would know no peace. Peace on earth is unattainable as long as we cause torture and death to other creatures that share this Earth with us.  As the violence of dead flesh enters our body, the violence of our thoughts and actions exits.  Americans consume more meat than ever, and look at the state of affairs we have: wars, teenage violence and school shootings, gangs, hate, domestic abuse, violence against women and children – where do you think all this is coming from?  Can you deny the connection?