Is a Raw Vegan Diet healthful for diabetes and high blood pressure?!
Is a Raw Vegan Diet healthful for diabetes and high blood pressure?
Is a raw vegan diet healthful over a long period of time, especially with diabetes and high blood pressure? I am trying to switch to a raw vegan diet, but my dietitian insists it is not healthful. Has anybody here tried it long-term, or know anybody who has? I'm wanting to lose a lot of weight, and I've been making a lot of salads, with cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, green bell peppers, celery, onions, carrots ... and then I pour on a bunch of vinegar and lemon juice. It's tasty, nutritious, and very low-calorie. It seems to be working for me, but my dietitian isn't happy. And I didn't even tell you what my primary care physician thinks about my decision to quit all my diabetes and blood pressure medications and just rely on a raw vegan diet instead of the meds ... except that I'm going to have to find another primary care physician.
Answers:
doctors don't know s h i t. american doctors have only been taught what they know in medical school: how to diagnose a disease, how to refer a patient to a specific department, and what medicine to prescribe to treat the disease. instead of going to the source of the problem, they would rather give you medicines that will suppress the symptoms rather than cure it.
everyone wants the easy way out here in america. they need to wake up and realize that change will not happen by popping a few pills. in order to change your physical state, one must go to the source of the problem and start healing there. i.e. *some* overweight and obese people would rather undergo surgery instead of changing their eating habits and exercising.
just make sure you're getting all your proper nutrients. salads are great, but raw foodists can also include nuts, legumes, and grains. perhaps you can contact the owner of this store http://thelivingtemple.com/index.html.... i spoke with him once, and he is super friendly and very informative. if you live in the southern cali area, you can drop by and purchase a cookbook.
find another dietitian and find another physician. they don't know any better.