Spiritual Healing, Diet for Diabetes

According to Rebecca Shepard writing for Diabetes Health one in three children will develop diabetes worldwide. This is an epidemic by any measure and something that needs to be addressed if we wish to keep medical costs down and a healthy population in the future. Here is part of what Rebecca says about Spiritual healing, diet for diabetes.

Spiritual Healing, Diet for Diabetes

I am not advocating that everyone view illness in spiritual terms. Our relationship to our body is the most sacred and personal one we have, and one that must be entirely our own. Rather, I am advocating for an extended discourse on exactly what illness is and where it could be coming from. Western medicine does not know the cause of type 1 diabetes. AACPractitioners believe that it has ties to genetics and may be affected by toxins in the environment or injections that set off autoimmune reactions. Type 2 diabetes is linked more solidly with poor diet, lack of exercise, and genetics. Not surprisingly, the form that has more understood and accepted origins is also the one that is deemed "curable.
I believe the root of the disease is toxins: toxins in what we are eating, toxins in our environment, and the toxic quality of societal consciousness at the present moment. We have lost a connection to what we need in order to survive and to flourish: healthy foods, relationships, and spaces. We are in imbalance, and the level of disease in our society is a mark of this.
I have gone completely off insulin twice, following the raw food diet and finding that my blood sugar remained stable even after meals that contained sugars (good, natural sugars such as fruit and nuts). Because I am at school and enrolled in a meal plan, I am unable to eat raw currently, so I need to inject certain amounts. But in the future, I plan on extending my raw food experiment from one month to four to see how my body can relearn and heal itself.
I in no way intend to insinuate that diabetes is an easy disease that everyone should just "get over" or be constantly positive about. Illness is, and always will be, a challenge. Instead, I am arguing that we can make use of the different lenses available to us through which we can view its place in our lives and in our bodies. We should not throw out the last century's advances in Western treatment and understanding of diabetes, but nor should we turn a blind eye to the more "old fashioned" (read ancient) ways that can help us maintain balance and health.
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She goes on to say that illness can bring pain and death or it can be a guiding light to spur everyone on to find the solution and cure. If you wish to know more about the raw food diet and diabetes, I recommend this DVD about a group of “ordinary diabetics” who are introduced to a different way of eating and living. Good for both Types 1 & 2 diabetes. Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days by Woody Harrelson, Anthony Robbins and Aaron Butler. Remember that this article and this DVD do not advocate foregoing modern medical remedies for diabetes but to supplement what is already provided by your doctor with spiritual healing, diet for diabetes.