Raw Foodies Who Are Diabetics Be Aware
Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 10:52PM Not every aspect of eating raw is beneficial. And I am not talking about the dangers of eating raw meat or fish. I am talking about how certain raw foods are dangerous to diabetics and should be very carefully moderated. Here’s what happened last week.
Two nights in a row last week my heart was racing and the flaring pain in my fingers and toes was really severe. I couldn’t figure it out since I was eating all kinds of raw vegetables, nuts, and seeds and just couldn’t figure out what was happening.
I mean I have had some sugar levels that were close to normal and and I was just devastated when the second night I tested and scored a 210 on my glucose meter. This was 2 hours past my last meal. It was so bad.
Thankfully I am part of a growing group of raw and vegan friends on Facebook and I posed the problem to them. Thankfully a very intelligent Raw Foods advocate, Kristin Leigh Fagen, looked at what I was eating and isolated those foods with a very high sugar content particularly raw cashews.
Until my blood sugar went through the ceiling or my personal comfort level, I had been eating cashews a lot. The raw cinnamon rolls my wife made were filled with cashews and had raw cashew glaze. Also I ate ounces of cashew just out of the bag. As soon as I cut out the excessive cashew the problem went away. I am not allergic to cashews but since so many raw food books contain cashews as an ingredient….well you understand. You eat what is convenient and tasty. And I may have over indulged in raw unsalted cashews. (pausing to cry. I love cashews)
Now I am wondering what other raw foods could cause a problem like this.
Anyway it has been a few days and 1/4 doses of Metaformin and my blood sugar tonight is: 
I know it gets higher in the morning, which I still do not understand, but after Qigong or yoga my body feels balanced.
Also I have begun to eat very little in the morning and break the fast after 9am or 10am or even later. I find that a single small serving of raw chocolate gives me enough energy for my workouts and most of my first meals are rich green smoothies with kale, spinach, carrots, apples in fresh coconut milk.
Do you know that milk is not a very good source of Vitamin D?
Did you know the sun can provide you with all the vitamin D you need in 15 minutes per day if you are light skinned and about 30 minutes if you are darker?
I have been reading, from Kristin again, about Dr. Mercola, a very intelligent ear, nose, and throat physician who writes and video blogs a lot about diseases and the sources of those diseases. You should really check him out and why Vitamin D deficiency can be found in diabetics and cancer patients.
And one final note, if you are a person who for years has avoided peppers because you are a big baby (me), try using them in smoothies or cut up thin or in wedges and use them to scoop up raw or vegan dips. They chew and crunch really well. After you have eaten raw for just a couple of weeks, you will find sweetness were you never could have before.
This really is the final note, bought a pair of 42 waist Polo Sport shorts a month and a half ago knowing I would get into them and I did and wore them for several hours until my raw lunch threatened to put an eye out. I am getting healthier and thinner every day and so can you.
Thanks for reading!
Reader Comments (3)
I'm so happy for you! First, for your low reading, and second, for fitting into those shorts! And thanking God you didn't rake someone's eye out with that button.
Also, good advice about the cashews, since they're so common in a raw food diet.
Hi Bill, I am glad your healthy meals are giving you such good results. It's good you found out about the cashews. "Jia You" (keep going):)
Kim
Hi Bill,
If you find the following book in a nearby bookstore, check it out... it describes in detail, Taoist internal exercises for health. Most of the exercises are simple enough to follow just from the description in the book. Though there are a few at the end of the book that I feel are more complicated:
THE COMPLETE SYSTEM OF SELF-HEALING: INTERNAL EXERCISES by Dr. Stephen T. Chang
Best regards,
Kim