Reversing Diabetes (Adult Type)

Note: Before starting any exercise program consult your health care professional.

Sources of information:

The Bible
Inspiration
Science

Romans 12: 1, 2

Sickness and disease result for three reasons:

The glory of God
Violation of natural laws
Violation of spiritual laws

Diabetes occurs when the body becomes unable to handle glucose (sugar), which builds up dangerous levels in the blood. A diagnosis of diabetes is usually made when a blood sugar test is consistently above 125 mg% (7.0 mmol/L) after an eight-hour fast. Fasting blood sugar (FBS) levels of 110-125 (6.1-6.9 mmol/L) are known as impaired fasting glucose tolerance, and usually precede full-blown diabetes.

What causes Diabetes?

Studies show a strong relationship to fat – both fat in the diet and fat on the body. The disease is rare in areas of the world where fat intake is low and obesity uncommon. Normally insulin, a pancreatic hormone, enables body cells to use glucose and controls blood sugar levels. But most of the time the problem in adult-onset diabetes is not a defective pancreas unable to produce enough insulin, but a lack of sensitivity to insulin. This resistance of the cells to insulin appears to relate directly to obesity and to excess fat in the diet and possibly in the liver.

Complications of Diabetes:

Eight out of ten diabetics develop eye problems. Diabetes is the leading cause of new blindness in developed countries. Diabetics are 18 times more likely to experience serious kidney damage than are nondiabetics. Some 25 percent of kidney dialysis patients are diabetics. Diabetes is a potent promoter of atherosclerosis (plugging of the arteries). The result is that diabetes more than doubles the risk of heart attacks and strokes. It can also lead to sexual impotence, hearing impairment, intermittent claudication (disabling leg cramps) and gangrene (Half of all foot and leg amputations in adults are from this cause).

Foods to reduce or eliminate:

• Sugars
• Refined baked goods
• Honey
• Saturated fat
• Chocolate
• Shellfish
• Meat
• Cow’s milk
• Alcoholic beverages
• Salt

Foods to increase:

• Legumes
• Vegetables
• Whole Grains
• Fruits
• Nuts
• Artichoke

For more foods that you can eat, see The Encyclopedia of Foods and Their Healing Power. book 2

Exercise is important in reversing all diseases:

Every hour of exercise is equivalent to 5 units of insulin. Walk one hour twice daily which is equivalent to 10 units of insulin. After each meal walk casually for 15-30 minutes. Within 7 hours after walking, new insulin receptors show up on the cell and as a result they absorb more glucose from the blood which results in a lower blood sugar level. Running is not recommended because of the stress on the joints and cartilage.

Breakfast: 6:00am – 9:00am if possible ____________________

Breakfast must be the biggest meal of the day. Before eating breakfast drink a glass of hot water, as hot as you can take it without burning yourself 30 minutes before eating your meal.

3 to 5 servings of fruit. (1 average size banana is 2 servings, and one large apple is 2 servings.) This gives you an idea of what a serving is, so 2 bananas are equal to 4 servings for the day.

After eating your fruits (make sure fruits and vegetables are always eaten first before your meal.) go to your whole grain cereals, you can sweeten with fruit if you like. You can eat oatmeal, brown rice, barley, or any other grain you would like for breakfast. Below is a good recipe you can use to get started on breakfast.

Stir 2 tablespoons of flaxseed freshly grounded and a 1/4 cup freshly grounded pumpkin seeds in your cereal at breakfast. Sprinkle 2 tablespoons of flaxseed over your salad at lunchtime also.

No – oil granola - Recipe taken from Tasty Vegan Delights

• Mix well in a large bowl and set aside
• 7 cups large oat flakes
• 1 cup quick oats
• 1 cup unsweetened desiccated coconut
• 1 cup sliced raw almonds
• 1 teaspoon salt

Blend in a blender till creamy
¾ cup raw sunflower seeds
1 cup water
½ cup honey or maple syrup
2 teaspoon vanilla (if you have high cholesterol or high blood pressure, use almond instead)

Pour the liquid over the dry ingredients. Mix well with your hands. Spread evenly on a nonstick baking sheet. Bake at 250-275 F for 1-2 hours, till golden and crunchy. Watch carefully and stir every 20 minutes. Time varies, depending on oven, pans, etc. After eating your grains eat a slice of 100% whole wheat bread with natural almond or peanut butter or other healthy spread.
The No-oil granola is just something to get you started, remember to mix up your meals for better nutrition. For example: Instead of oat meal or granola for breakfast, you can do rice and beans.

Lunch: 11:00am – 2:00pm if possible ______________________________

Start out with your salad (Do not use an oil based dressing. Use a nut dressing.) Remember! Anything that has a seed is a fruit, so a tomato is a fruit and so is a cucumber. Fruits and vegetables should not be mixed. An example of a good salad is cucumbers, avocado, tomato. Or you can do lettuce, cauliflower, and cabbage.

Quick salad dressing Recipe: - Recipe taken from health power

• ¼ cup water
• ¼ tsp Italian seasoning
• ¼ tsp garlic powder
• ¼ cup lemon juice
• ¼ tsp onion powder
• ¼ tsp salt (optional)

Combine all ingredients and shake well. Let it sit; it’ll get better with age.
After eating your salad (make sure fruits and vegetables are always eaten first before your meal.) go to your grains, like brown rice, barley, oats, or any other grains you like. With your grains you can have beans, or any type of nut loaf, or bean loaf. Here is a good recipe you can use with your grains for lunch.

Lentil Roast- Recipe taken from volume 1 of the family medical guide

• 2 cups cooked lentils
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1 ½ cups cooked brown rice or 1 ½ cup bread crumbs
• ½ cup stewed tomatoes
• ½ cup chopped celery
• ½ cup chopped walnuts\
• 1 t. salt

Combine all the ingredients and mix them thoroughly. Place the roast in a sprayed baking dish and bake at 350 degrees for about 60 minutes.

Dinner: no later than 6:00pm ___________________ (optional)

For most people dinner or a third meal is not recommended, but if you must have a third meal it should only consist of a slice or two of toasted whole wheat bread with a fruit spread.
Dinner should be eaten 3-4 hours before going to bed.

Extra instructions:

— Anything white in the diet that is not naturally white must go-white bread, flour, pasta, sugar-you need fiber.

— Eat two meals per day with nothing in between except water.

— Meals should be eaten on a regular schedule daily with not more than 30- minute time difference in schedule.

— Meals should be eaten 5-6 hours apart.

— Get 15-20 minutes of sunshine daily.

— Go to bed before 10:00pm.

— All grains should be cooked for 2 hours. A study of people over 30 found that there were legions on the brain caused by undercooked starches. Cooking grains for 2 hours ensures that the starch molecules are broken down properly.

— Drink enough water to make your urine white. If your urine is colored, you are not drinking enough water.

— Drink water 15-20 minutes before meals or 2 hours after meals.

— If you don’t have health issues stop drinking bush teas and taking vitamins.

— Have blood tests and take only the nutrients you are lacking.

— Carbonated drinks destroy the calcium in the body.

— Eating and drinking at the same time causes food to ferment in the stomach thus producing alcohol.

— Hot peppers are related to cancer of the stomach and hypertension. They are also stimulants.

— Avoid capsules or caplets unless they say 100% vegetarian or plant based.

— Many contain gelatin from pork or beef source.

— Read Ministry of Healing or Pathways to Health and Happiness, Counsels on Diets and foods, Tasty Vegan Delights, and Health Power. They will give you a lot more information. (These books can be found at www. Hhesonline.com)

— Avoid all hot peppers, mustard, ketchup, ginger, mauby, vanilla, curry, tumeric, nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves, apple cider, and all other carbonated drinks.

— Stay away from green tea and black tea.

Herbs that help: (optional)

• Gymnema Sylvestre
• GTF Chromium
• Garlic

Important:
If at night your blood sugar level drops below 80, eat a piece of fruit, otherwise only two meals per day, breakfast and lunch. Foods should be eaten in as natural a state as possible. Avoid all animal products.

 Reversing Diabetes Counseling Sheet (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader Software ).