spicy smoothies by David Wolfe?

[Guest guest]

I just watched David Wolfe's Video online and he mentions spicy

smoothies using cayenne. He makes them really hot so you can only sip

them.

 

I am interested in this because my mother with diabetes has just

started the Raw food diet. She says her blood sugar level has really

risen since eating raw and she and I are concerned.

 

David said in his video to take it easy on honey, dates, and sweetener

if you have blood sugar problems and mentioned some cleanse.

 

Does anyone know if I can get the recipes for his hot smoothie, cleanse

for blood sugar issues in his book " Naked Chocolate " ? If not, then

which book would he talk about it?

 

Thanks, Beth

[Guest guest]

> Does anyone know if I can get the recipes for his hot smoothie, cleanse

> for blood sugar issues in his book " Naked Chocolate " ? If not, then

> which book would he talk about it?

>

> Thanks, Beth

 

Those recipes are most definitely NOT in " Naked Chocolate " . Sorry, but I

wouldn't

recommend that book to anyone. I bought it and tried many of the recipes. Many

of the

ones I tried are much better without the chocolate the recipes call for, and the

others I

tried are worthless in any way, shape, or form. The main points of the book are

how David

& Shazzie found out how good chocolate is for the body, how other peoples &

cultures

have revered chocolate thousands of years ago (but their " historical " intro is

not very

educational though it tries relentlessly to be), there are lots of weird

pictures of he &

Shazzie " high " on chocolate, and lots of strange recipes because they believe

chocolate

being the health food that it is that you should include it in everything, no

matter what.

 

You can eat raw w/out eating all the sugar from fruit, dried fruit, etc. Keep it

centered on

greens, nuts & seeds and low-glycemic fruit if necessary such as pears & apples,

maybe a

few berries. For example, for breakfast I ate chopped up apples and/or pears

with almond

milk (I never have found a need to use any kind of sweetener in my almond milk),

lots of

fresh ground flax seed, and a sprinkling of nuts along with cinnamon (supposed

to help

your body regulate blood sugar). If I drank carrot juice, I ate a tablespoon of

almond butter

prior so that the sugar in the carrot juice (there's a lot of it) didn't affect

my blood sugar. I

followed that kind of a diet for about 3 months, then progressed to including

fruit (all

kinds and even dried) and now sugars of any type no longer bothers me. These

recommendations came from my acupuncturist, but many on this list would cringe

at that.

You just have to find what works for you. Use stevia, and I've read now that

Yacon syrup

can be used as a sugar, maple syrup, and agave substitute and like stevia, that

it does not

affect blood sugar at all. The one thing I didn't feel comfortable with about

juicing is that

you seem to lose a lot of the fruit/veggies nutrients that would aid in the

body's digestion

and would also slow down the glycemic reaction. Just my thoughts based on what

I've read

and taken in from others in the past few years.

[Guest guest]

Beth,

 

In January of this year my sugar was 520, local MD told me to start

insulin immediately. I thought about, searched for MD's with a

track

record of actually curing diabetes without drugs and I found one.

 

Green Smoothies were not helping, TOO much sugar.

 

Dr. Fuhrman told me to use green not sweet apples, NO dates, 1/2

banana at most. Works better. NO, don't " take it easy " on dates,

honey and sweetner. ELIMINATE THEM, at least until things have been

under control for a while. Moderation kills when you are trying to

reverse disease. The point is to reverse disease, not try to find

incremental substitutes for what got you in trouble.

 

ONLY " Take it easy " if you want to take it easy on getting rid of

whatever troubles you.

 

7 months after I started, my sugar was 110 and A1c's were perfect

with

NO MEDS. I'm now 10 months down the road, I no longer have

diabetes,

no loger have coronary artery disease (PET scans say so)cholesterol

is

down from 490 to 140 with NO DRUGS, liver enzymes back to normal and

I

dropped 70 lbs although that was never the point or a goal.

 

I'm now mostly raw vegan. I can tolerate a little sugar in my diet,

but try to minimize it as I belive that even though the diabetes is

cured and gone, I have a predisposition to get it back, kind of like

a

common cold. Most MD's would say nonsense, you can't get rid of

it.

But I have, so have MANY of my MD's patients (no drugs) and so have

MANY people I met in various vegan pot lucks I attend.

 

My personal theory now is that it is NOT what you ADD (such as

cleanses, supplements, this berry, or that product) that really

matter. What really matters is what you SUBTRACT, such as DAIRY,

all

animal products, processed oils, sugars (no matter what form).

 

You have to constantly monitor your sugar. A computer program like

many of the meter comapny's have is great. You just constantly

download your meter and see what's going on and keep careful notes

of

what you are eating and keep beating on it. Constantly get A1c's

run,

like monthly to see the trend without waiting the usual time.

Remember if you are losing weight too, your body is consuming a lot

of

carbs and animal fat (yours). Main key is find a doctor that

understands and USES this approach. Possibly my MD would know of

one

in your area. You can ask him on his site www.drfuhrman.com

 

Good Luck

 

rawfood , " Beth Mouser " <mouser4 wrote:

 

> I am interested in this because my mother with diabetes has just

> started the Raw food diet. She says her blood sugar level has

really

> risen since eating raw and she and I are concerned.

>

> David said in his video to take it easy on honey, dates, and

sweetener

> if you have blood sugar problems and mentioned some cleanse.

[Guest guest]

rawfood , " melanieburtis " <melanieburtis

wrote:

>

> The one thing I didn't feel comfortable with about juicing is that

> you seem to lose a lot of the fruit/veggies nutrients that would aid

in the body's digestion

> and would also slow down the glycemic reaction. Just my thoughts

based on what I've read

> and taken in from others in the past few years.

>

 

Juicing also removes the fiber... not that anyone on a raw food diet

has a fiber shortage. BUT, for the average person (vegan or not) it's

better to encourage eating whole veggies & fruits due to high fiber

content.

 

Kristen