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Almost everybody's life has been touched by diabetes. When you are diagnosed with diabetes, you can look forward to amputations, blindness, heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure, peripheral nerve damage, and an untimely death--not to mention a whole bunch of pain and suffering. Practically everyone over 40 is pre-diabetic, and if preventative measures are not taken, it is virtually inevitable that this condition will progress to diabetes. We are in the midst of a diabetes epidemic.
Early in 2006, Ron Brown made "How We Beat Diabetes" available to the public. It is the story of how his family reacted to the challenge of Adult Onset Diabetes, and how they successfully reversed it. At the time, he thought that his offering was unique, but he was wrong. Shortly thereafter, he discovered another book on the internet by someone who had reversed their own diabetes. Since then, every couple of weeks he has found another one. Here is a list of them:
One way or another, all of these people claim to have triumphed over diabetes. Then they published a book about the experience. They don't seem to have much else in common. They do not know each other. Their backgrounds and experience are quite diverse. They each used somewhat different approaches to the problem, but the results are similar. They all independently found a way to reverse their diabetes, or that of a loved one. The programs they developed have some similarities, but also some differences. Could there be some truth in what they are saying? While the possibility exists that these people are nothing more than nutcases, liars, or mistaken, befuddled fools, it does not seem very likely.
What is interesting about these nine people is that they have taken charge of the situation and found their own way. Sometimes, they were assisted by their medical practitioners, but sometimes they carried on in spite of them. Here is the significance of their accomplishment: If they were able to beat diabetes, then IT CAN BE DONE!
Pete Seeger recently said the following:
I imagine a big seesaw, and one end of this seesaw is on the ground with a basket half-full of big rocks in it. The other end of the seesaw is up in the air. It's got a basket one-quarter full of sand. And some of us got teaspoons, and we're trying to fill it up with sand. A lot of people are laughing at us, and they say, "Ah, people like you have been trying to do that for thousands of years, and it's leaking out as fast as you're putting it in." But we're saying, "We're getting more people with teaspoons all the time." And we think one of these years, you'll see that whole seesaw go zooop in the other direction. And people will say, "Gee, how did it happen so suddenly?" Us and all our little teaspoons.
Although he was talking about social justice, what he said could just as easily apply to the epidemic of diabetes that is currently sweeping the world. There is a new mindset afoot. Instead of waiting for the medical profession to adopt, people are taking charge of their own health. Armed with little more than an Internet Search engine and some common sense, they are starting to decide for themselves what to do. They are using medicine, herbs, diet, exercise, supplements--whatever works for them. And it is working for them. I think we are going to see a lot more of these people put their teaspoon of sand into the basket.
