The last I checked, the American Dietetic Association was still receiving an "educational grant" from the makers of Aspartame, so I wonder how biased they are...
And medical doctors don't usually receive a substantial amount of nutrition education...and many receive none.
All fine people, I'm sure, but coming from their own bias and point of view. Your response-ability comes down to you in the end.
A raw vegan diet can be healthful if, and only if, you pay close attention to what you're doing.
Here's the rub.
The food being produced in the US is substantially less nutritious than the same foods grown only 20 years ago. That's according to the USDA.
That means that if you eat your fill with whole foods, you're going to be stopping before you actually have sufficient micronutrient support from your diet.
If that becomes acute, you will die from one of the many dietary deficiency diseases.
Considering that about 10,000 Americans died a year due to Pellagra until the FDA started adding dietary supplements to while flour in the 1920s, it should also be blindingly obvious that this problem has been around for a while.
So if you're going to choose this route, you should also consider high quality dietary supplements. There are some B vitamins that you absolutely cannot get sufficiently from a raw food vegan diet. This is hard fact. Appropriate use of supplementation is the only way around this. You need all the other vitamins and minerals as well, because you don't know where your carrot was grown. The USDA used to track the fact that the same produce varied substantially in nutritional support when grown in different states. They stopped tracking this decades ago when the food production companies decided the information was inconvenient to their sales.
I work with several raw food vegans. While it's not my personal dietary choice, I know these people have all experienced a significant improvement in their health conditions from this change.
One last smidge of perspective: Some argue that you were designed to eat food raw. That is true, but only if you include the clause that you were also designed to eat by picking food directly from plants and eat it right then and there. The moment you remove a piece of a plant from its living source, enzymes go to work to keep it alive. That consumes many of the nutrients you may otherwise assume are supposed to be present in your food.
Other foods that we "evolved" to eat are only edible if cooked. A variety of nutrients in potatoes and other foods are only released by heat. Cooking actually created a solution for humans by extracting nutrients and calories from foods that either aren't otherwise digestible or that have lost much of the available nutrition by not being eaten immediately.Is a Raw Vegan Diet healthful for diabetes and high blood pressure?
absolutely! diabetes is very high on my mom's side and my sis just got diagnosed as pre diabetic but her case was directly from her years of bad diet. for example: her favorite pizza was pepperoni, bacon and ham, THEN she'd put SALT on it. she is 6 months away from full blown type 2 if she doesn't shape up and also on her way to a heart attack. she is now going veggie and and eating healthier. cooking veggies actually drains them of nutrients. chow on them raw, salads loaded with spinach and kale are best. if your not allergic baby tomatoes ROCK for snacking, and try tomato and cheese sandwiches, especially toasted with mayo.
make a habit of eating grain with your breakfast, special k and total rasin bran are my favorites. good luck and peace!
PS load down on fruit too!Is a Raw Vegan Diet healthful for diabetes and high blood pressure?
Well if ALL you are having is salad, then it is not good for you. However a well balanced raw vegan diet is indeed healthy. But you have to have some protein in there or you will end up with issues. If you are keeping the carbs down and checking your sugars, there is no need for diabetes meds. Type 2 is cured by weight loss and diet. I would watch all that acid though... vinegar and lemon juice all the time... especially large quantities is not necessarily a great idea. Everything is about balance and moderation. All veggies and no protein is just as bad as no veggies and a bunch of greasy crap.Is a Raw Vegan Diet healthful for diabetes and high blood pressure?
Nutritionally, buy two supplements...1) Spirulina. It will provide protein %26amp; help stabilize blood glucose, %26amp; 2) Chromium pilocinate. This will lower your blood glucose.
You are definitely on the right track but you may perhaps need some natural supplements as well such as garlic, fish oil and hawthorn.
Hopefully you know about protein complementing as most vegetable protein is incomplete. Combining the incomplete protein in beans and peas (which contain plenty of the essential amino acid lysine) with the incomplete protein in bread, cereals, muesli and pasta and most nuts (which contain only small amounts of the essential amino acid lysine) will complement to form complete protein.
Your weight problem should also resolve itself.
There are other issues that you need to know about besides the protein issue so you had better do some extensive research on the vegan diet.
Perhaps a Yahoo search for "vegan diet" might help.
Hopefully so know about the glycaemic index and high and low GI foods. Potatoes are very low GI foods and beans are very high GI foods. Diabetics should concentrate on high GI foods such as beans and go easy on low GI foods such as potatoes and, of course, avoid table sugar.
Plenty of exercise will also help your blood pressure.
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