using Raw Food for healing

Hi everyone-
Has anyone seen the trailer for “Raw For 30 Days”. It’s a documentary about Six people who normally eat fast food, who try going 100% raw for a month. It features doctors, experts, and raw foodists who are interviewed including Gabriel Cousens, MD, David Wolfe, and Woody Harrelson.

I am new to raw foods and very interested in hearing from others who are raw foodists and people who are trying to change their lives for the better. Many people in my family have diabetes and I have changed my diet and gone raw to prevent myself from also getting diabetes.

It’s here:

http://videos.zaadz.com/266879/raw_for_30_days_trailer

Visit the Raw For 30 Days site at:

www.rawfor30days.com

Josh

Re: using Raw Food for healing

Hi Josh,

Back in the early 80s I worked for Victoras Kulvinskas, who helped promote the raw food diet, who wrote the 1974 bestseller, Survival Into The 21st Century (which helped popularize wheatgrass). Victoras was a computer consultant for the Apollo Project when he was diagnosed as schizophrenic and later credited his healing from even that psychiatric illness to his full immersion in the raw food regimen.

I haven't looked at the trailor for “Raw For 30 Days” but I do recall the month(+) when we conducted a clinical trial for Dick Gregory's Bahamian Drink Mix. The participants were all adults who had grow up on and had continued to live on “fast foods”. The resident psychologist for that trial was Harry Swain from Philadelphia, who attributed his loss of literally several hundred pounds to Gregory's dietary advice. Dick Gregory himself had gone raw and salvaged his health from obesity and toxicity following a decade of indulgence durring his career as a comedian.

As a serious student of the methods and practices of M.K.Gandhi, Dick would council his adherents to fast and pray, recognizing that the process of detoxification that accompanies weaning oneself from highly processed foods is often a psycho-spiritual reorientation as well. I'll leave what I say about the clinical trial at, that after the first week and a half of an exclusively raw diet on the part of the participants, I was asked by Dr. Swain to “hide the knives”.

I myself have found the raw and even vegetarian diets not nearly grounding enough for my personal constitution and, what may be genetic predispositions.

Regarding diabetes, I recently saw, on the tv series NOVA, that a Swedish researcher had found a correlation between the diet of paternal grandparents at the ages of ten, and the incidence of their grandsons developing diabetes.

May you use every option within your control, and may you add your success story to the pools of knowledge of these complex challenges.

Kerry