Hi Alex,
Thanks for your response. Just to clarify, I didn't post the link to the 'raw diet' video, although I have watched it and found it an interesting documentary.
Also, as it happens, I am a scientist and certainly wouldn't advocate anyone following a non-evidence based approach to their health care (unless they have a preferred option they want to adopt for themselves for a possible range of perfectly valid reasons, caveat two being that, frankly, much of the 'mainstream' care offered to diabetics is actually based on quite shoddy 'evidence' and many conventional treatments have been shown, using conventional science, to be harmful).
My post was not intended to advocate an assumed 'miracle cure' or 'nutty-vegan-medic says this is so, so it must be true ' stance. I have recently changed to a vegan diet and have found it to both lower (very significantly) and stabilise my desperately erratic blood glucose. Note here, that I keep rigorous measures and can do the stats on what is, clearly, just a personal 'single case study'. I simply wondered whether anyone else had found this and why, since as you also suggest, there is a clear logic behind why this might work, no-one ever mentions the option of changing to a diet which naturally requires less insulin to cope with. There is some limited research on diet and Type 1, but certainly rather more would be useful given the grim side effects of taking insulin long-term. If a raw or vegan diet has worked for a substantial number of people (and here would seem to be a good forum to initially explore the question), then it may deserve some further research.
Regarding the 'claims' in respect of Type 1 in the video Cara flagged , this is not matched in the book by Dr Cousens, in which he clearly states that the suggested diet is not a 'cure' for Type 1, but hypothesises that the raw/vegan diet may be a diet which some Type 1's may be able to cope with with less or even no exogenous insulin, since they have residual beta cell function and the amount of insulin still produced is enough to cope with the more limited insulin demands of the food source.
Out of interest, have you looked closely at much of the research evidence on conventional interventions for diabetes? If so, I would suggest that you may perhaps have noticed that there are rather more Elephants in the cupboard than is even possible in respect of a simple dietary change.
Thanks again for your comments, all discussion is good