What conventional wisdom said couldn’t be done is happening: Diabetes is being cured—not through a new miracle drug but through sound, life-supporting nutrition. In his paradigm-shifting book, There Is a Cure for Diabetes, Dr. Gabriel Cousens makes a convincing argument that diabetes can be cured by changing one’s dietary habits.
Cousens maintains that when people stop eating sugar, white flour, white rice, animal fats and over-processed foods and start giving their body nutrient-rich, live, plant-based foods, the body naturally goes back into balance. Even diabetic complications can be reversed.
Cousens, a holistic medical doctor and founder and director of the Tree of Life Foundation and Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, draws on substantial research and clinical trials to make his case. His book cites 530 references, most of which are primary sources.
Live Foods Cured Albert Einstein of Type 2 Diabetes
What is astonishing is that as far back as 1920, scientists knew about the dietary connection to diabetes. Dr. Marx Gerson cured Albert Schweitzer of type 2 diabetes with a live foods diet and published the results.
Gerson’s experience has been replicated numerous times since then. Cousens has seen reversals first hand at his own center in Patagonia, Arizona. “Over a period of 35 years, I have seen a variety of people heal diabetes naturally with live foods and fasting,” notes Cousens. “We have the knowledge, clinical know-how and experience to completely reverse type 2 diabetes. All that is needed is to let go of our belief that diabetes cannot be reversed.” Type 1 diabetes is also ameliorated—although not cured—through a live foods diet.
Supporting the body’s natural healing process through diet and lifestyle changes is not a new idea, but it is usually overlooked in mainstream society. “Despite the myths we have been told and sold, we are not by genetic constitution Mars bar eaters, Super-Big-Gulp drinkers or Big-Mac snackers, nor do we suffer from a deficiency of these junk foods,” writes Cousens. “For millions of years we have been physiologically, biochemically and genetically designed to eat a diet of organic living plant foods. A plant-source diet is the healthiest and most natural diet for human beings.”
There Is a Cure for Diabetes lays out the three week program Cousens has successfully used to transform the negative genetic expression of diabetes to a physiology of health and well-being. According to Cousens, in most people the program quickly renders insulin and related medicines unnecessary as the blood sugar drops to normal levels; and the diabetic shifts into a non-diabetic physiology within two weeks. The diabetic genes are simply turned off. “We have a full memory of all our gene expression in our chromosomes; all we have to do is push the right dietary button to get a healthy expression,” says Cousens.
During the first week of the program, people go on a green-juice fast. During weeks two and three, they eat 100-percent organic, nutrient-dense plant-sourced live foods with anti-diabetic nutritional supplements. They also learn how to prepare delicious live food.
The book has an entire chapter on the Culture of Life cuisine, with nutritional information, menus and recipes. One fascinating section explains how to give a recipe a particular ethnic flavor through the use of herbs, spices and other signature ingredients. Other chapters discuss diabetic lifestyle habits and risk factors, nutritional supplements and how to maintain a pro-life way of eating and living.
Moderating Eating Habits to Cure Diabetes Doesn’t Work
Curing diabetes through diet requires an all-out effort, says Cousens. When one simply cuts down on poor food choices rather than eliminating them, it is more difficult to succeed in changing one’s diet because there is a great temptation to revert to what has been a comfortable, socially supported eating routine.
According to Cousens, other chronic illnesses, such as asthma, cardiovascular disease, cancer, arthritis and Alzheimer’s disease, can also shift into remission from eating a predominantly live-foods diet. Eating and living in a Culture of Life has far more than physical benefits, however; it also positively changes emotions and brings people in touch with their spirit
There Is a Cure for Diabetes is an eye-opening, practical and empowering book. It shows people that their health is in their own hands and that many degenerative diseases can be prevented and cured by eating a health-affirming diet.
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