Food is one of the four imbalanced factors at the root cause of diabetes. Dr Achyuthan Eswar points out the food that works to set this right
I’m certain that you know at least 10 people who are diabetic. Is it then possible for you to imagine a diabetes-free world? We have accepted that ‘after a certain age’ diabetes is normal. What’s new, however, is that people in their 20s are diabetic and so are children!
If you are diabetic, you have probably experienced a slow increase in weight, fluctuating sugar levels, worsening lab reports, increasing doses of medicine and insulin, and complications like kidney damage, retinal damage, nerve damage, etc. Unfortunately, while doctors prescribe drugs to control diabetes and tell you to take care of ‘exercise and diet’, most don’t have the time to tell you exactly how to do this.
Reversing diabetes
Naturopathy and yoga can help you reduce weight in just a few days, stabilise blood sugar levels and reduce the need for medications and insulin. Even complications will improve if you remove the root causes of the disease. We have helped many diabetics, including doctors, reduce or eliminate their medications, even go off insulin, all while eating delicious oranges and mangoes! You can achieve this too, with the right tools.
Imagine driving on a highway. You suddenly hear a loud bang from the engine. What would you do? Immediately stop the car and figure out what happened, correct? Would you instead turn up your music volume and pretend you didn’t hear the noise? Unlikely. We are tuned to get to the root cause of our problems and solve them. We pull out weeds by their roots, not trim their leaves so they can grow back!
The root cause of diabetes lies in imbalances in four spheres of our life—food, mind, lifestyle and environment.
Diet doesn’t work. Understanding how food influences health does. The 5-step formula for reversing diabetes through food is a ‘whole foods plant-based diet’.
Farm: Organically or naturally grown plants. No animals or animal products. Gluten free crops.
Factory: Unprocessed whole foods
Shop: Local and seasonal ingredients
Kitchen: Slow cooked in water
Dining: Three course meals to be had in the following order: Fruits and raw vegetables, followed by cooked vegetables, then cooked pulses and cereals; two meals a day, when hungry, mindfully eaten with eyes closed, without distractions and chewed to a paste.
To make things simpler, we have some tools for you. A comprehensive kitchen replacement chart and healing recipes. Many of us use the ingredients on the left column of the chart. Replace these with the ones on the right. Follow these recipes to easily prepare meals that heal. Our recipes show how traditional food can be easily prepared to enable healing and health. Visit www.dietfruitfully.com for all our healing recipes. Bon appetit!
(Dr Achyuthan Eswar is the co-founder of PHC Lifestyle Clinic, Bangalore)
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