So, I got given this book by my (exceptionally well meaning) mother-in-law to be (and if this sounds like a mother-in-law joke or anything, it's really not meant to be) written by a character called Gabriel Cousens. It's called "There is a cure for diabetes".
For those not familar with him, he's this sort of.... well, guru, really, who has been touring the morning shows in America, recently, promoting this book. As you can imagine, with a title like "There is a cure for diabetes", he's getting a fair bit of publicity.
In all fairness to him, he does have an awful lot of letters after his name, it reads something like M.D., M.D. (H), D.D plus some other stuff. It looks good until you realise that his M.D is in psychiatry and the rest of the stuff is either holistic or religious. I just want to know if anyone out there has had any positive experience of his dietary advice. Because the more I read the book, the more I want to scream.
He advocates an entirely raw, vegan diet to live by, cutting caloric intake by 40%. He claims that his completely 'cures' diabetes by removing the eater from 'The Culture of Death' that we live in and training them in his own 'Culture of Life' (go figure on that snappy name, eh?). The diet consists of not much more than nuts and leaves, with a few berries thrown in here and there. He provides all sorts of evidence showing this to bring the BSLs of any Type 2 diabetic (let's note he entirely ignores type 1, which I am) down to 'normal'.
Now, can someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but by only eating a diet like that, you more or less just completely exclude carbohydrate. So isn't that a 'cure' in the same way that an amputation is a 'cure' for a gangrenous foot? Sure, you've got no symptoms anymore, but you're still lacking a working body part?
But I'm trying to be fair. So if anyone here has had a positive experience with any of his cources, or advice, I'd really appreciate hearing about it.
But is it cynical of me to think that I'm not going to?
UPB.
For those not familar with him, he's this sort of.... well, guru, really, who has been touring the morning shows in America, recently, promoting this book. As you can imagine, with a title like "There is a cure for diabetes", he's getting a fair bit of publicity.
In all fairness to him, he does have an awful lot of letters after his name, it reads something like M.D., M.D. (H), D.D plus some other stuff. It looks good until you realise that his M.D is in psychiatry and the rest of the stuff is either holistic or religious. I just want to know if anyone out there has had any positive experience of his dietary advice. Because the more I read the book, the more I want to scream.
He advocates an entirely raw, vegan diet to live by, cutting caloric intake by 40%. He claims that his completely 'cures' diabetes by removing the eater from 'The Culture of Death' that we live in and training them in his own 'Culture of Life' (go figure on that snappy name, eh?). The diet consists of not much more than nuts and leaves, with a few berries thrown in here and there. He provides all sorts of evidence showing this to bring the BSLs of any Type 2 diabetic (let's note he entirely ignores type 1, which I am) down to 'normal'.
Now, can someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but by only eating a diet like that, you more or less just completely exclude carbohydrate. So isn't that a 'cure' in the same way that an amputation is a 'cure' for a gangrenous foot? Sure, you've got no symptoms anymore, but you're still lacking a working body part?
But I'm trying to be fair. So if anyone here has had a positive experience with any of his cources, or advice, I'd really appreciate hearing about it.
But is it cynical of me to think that I'm not going to?
UPB.
