Let us know how it works out for you.....

Also i keep active - gardening, cleaning and dog walking. So when i shift to my new lifestyle i rekon things can only get better.

Main thing about the raw food diet is that the physical body will be able "run" on the best possible fuel 

Anyway one step at a time ...

I am still lazy about testing myself and getting the supplies, I am seeing a doctor in August, and perhaps getting testing supplies soon, I will most likely pay for them myself if the VA doesnt...

thanks for the suggestion about a better diet...

i also have diabetes - (type 1) . Although i have a friendly doctor , he is unable to help beyond supplying me with insulin.

I have been researching / looking for some ideas to aid my situation.

At the moment i am preparing to switch to a 75% raw food diet after reading "Raw Energy" by Leslie Kenton -  and have also just started "oil pulling" which i found on this site.

From what i've read so far i think both of these techniques would help enormously...

Best wishes Roger (M5)

just came across this post,

i am diagnosed with diabetes type II since November 06 (a drastic side effect of my nueroleptic med for schizophrenia)

and i take a med for this diabetes (the VA has not yet approved giving me diabetic testing meters, and I have been putting off buying my own... out of denial perhaps and fear), i am in my late 30's and really cringe at this disease... sight loss, amputations

interesting about the honey trials though, thanks

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070504/hl … LmF4_MWM0F

Spreading honey on a diabetic ulcer could prevent the need to amputate an infected foot, researchers say.A doctor at the University of Wisconsin who helped about half a dozen of her diabetic patients avoid amputation has launched a controlled trial to promote the widespread use of honey therapy.
The therapy involves squeezing a thick layer of honey onto the wound after dead skin and bacteria have been removed.The honey kills bacteria because it is acidic and avoids the complication of bacterial resistance found with standard antibiotics, Jennifer Eddy, a professor at the University's School of Medicine and Public Health, told AFP.
"This is a tremendously important issue for world health," Eddy said.
Diabetics typically have poor circulation and decreased ability to fight infection and ulcers can be hard to treat. An amputation is performed every 30 seconds somewhere in the world, Eddy said.
"If we can prove that honey promotes healing in diabetic ulcers, we can offer new hopes for many patients, not to mention the cost benefit, and the issue of bacterial resistance. The possibilities are tremendous."
Honey therapy is already used to treat bed sores in New Zealand and as an alternative form of medicine in Europe, but has largely been relegated to history books in the United States.
Eddy first heard of it in medical school when a professor commented that of all the ancient remedies, honey actually seemed to work when he tried it out in the laboratory.
She tried honey therapy as a last resort six years ago with a 79-year-old diabetic patient who had developed foot wounds resistant to standard treatments.
"I tried it only after everything else had failed and... we had essentially sent him home to die," she said. "All antibiotics were stopped when we started honey, and his wounds rapidly healed."
Eddy hopes to have the trial completed and the results published by 2008 or 2009.
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Meanwhile, we might try using honey on everyday scratches and infections.  Like MRSA
(Methicilin Resistant Staphlococcus Aureus)  Wow.  What a concept!