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Today you will officially start the SHARAN 21-Day Online Diabetes Reversal Programme! Make sure that you have completed all of the preparation work before starting. Today you will learn about important reminders, hypoglycemia, how to create an attitude of gratitude, the cause of diabetes, and what to eat. In addition, you’ll learn to prepare some delicious, raw Indian salads and coconut chutney.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
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HYPOGLYCEMIA WARNING!A whole food, plant-based diet is a very powerful and effective remedy for diabetes and other related diseases. You may be surprised how fast it can start working for you—and how fast your blood sugar level can drop—if you follow the diet 100 percent! Hypoglycemia, or low blood sugar, is more dangerous than hyperglycemia, or high blood sugar. Symptoms of hypoglycemia include trembling, feeling shaky, increased heart rate, irritability, headache, confusion, perspiration, restlessness, dizziness, and feeling faint. If you suspect that your blood sugar level is low, check it with your glucometer. A normal blood sugar level range is 80-120. If your blood sugar level is less than 80 or you have symptoms of hypoglycemia, eat something sweet like dates or raisins immediately. Always carry something sweet like dates and raisins to eat in case of an emergency. In case of severe hypoglycemia, actual sugar may be the best emergency treatment. If all of your blood sugar level readings in a single day are less than 140 or any single blood sugar level reading is less than 80, you must reduce your medications immediately! |
Let’s begin the programme with one of the most healing vibrations on the planet—gratitude! Gratitude is the ability to focus on what’s right in your life. When you start with being grateful for all that you have, you signal your trust and openness to receive to the universe.
Watch this video by spiritual teacher Nithya Shanti to learn about creating an attitude of gratitude.
It is well known that stress causes diabetes and other diseases. Let us reduce this stress by adding happiness
If you have bought the gratitude journal, please start with day 1 and keep going. If you have not bought this, you may wish to make your own journal and write down a list of things that you are grateful for every day.
KEY POINTS
- Everyone has some amount of "salt" or problems and challenges in their lives. Ask yourself: How much water or gratitude do you have to dissolve it?
- Consciously focus on what is right in your life and what you are thankful for
- Embrace your challenges instead of rejecting them
- Start your day by being grateful—maybe while drinking your morning glass of water
- Be thankful for what you want before it happens (the science of miracles)
- Make gratitude an active part of your life while doing your daily activities, exercise, and chores
- Write down five things you’re grateful for each day in your journal. If you have purchased our 21-day gratitude journal, start writing in it today.
Starting today, all your food should be Whole & Plant based. It should be free of refined ingredients like oil, white flour/maida, and sugar as well as animal products like meat, seafood, dairy in any form including curds or yoghurt, and eggs.
In the coming days, we will teach you how to cook whole, plant-based food. This week you’ll learn how to cook without oil.
Note that you should not eat fruit with any other food as this can result in gas and bloating and also cause spikes in your blood sugar. You should eat fruit first, preferably on an empty stomach, and then wait 20–30 minutes (or until you are hungry again) before eating other types of food. Ideally, you should start your day with fresh fruit or a green smoothie. Note that a green smoothie has only green leaves and fruit, never other vegetables like zucchini or cucumber. In addition, melons should be eaten alone—not mixed with other kinds of fruit.
It is important to understand what causes diabetes. This programme is not about managing diabetes by controlling blood sugars. This is about understanding the CAUSE of diabetes, and removing it in order to PREVENT OR REVERSE diabetes.
Most diabetics are advised to cut down sugar and carbohydrates. This does not cure diabetes because sugar and carbohydrates are not the cause. If we remove the cause, diabetes must reverse. Scientific research and studies have indicated that the main cause of diabetes is excess fat inside muscle cells, which accumulates because of excess dietary fat.*
*For example, research cited by Neal Barnard, M.D. of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) (Barnard, M.D. 2006), Joel Fuhrman, M.D. of the Nutritional Research Foundation (Fuhrman, M.D. 2012), and Michael Greger, M.D. of NutritionFacts.org (Greger, M.D. 2015).
Watch this video by Dr. Nandita Shah to learn more about the cause of diabetes and what to eat to prevent and reverse diabetes.
KEY POINTS
- Remove excess fat from your diet—including oil and animal products like meat, eggs, fish, and dairy—and add fiber, which helps get rid of the extra fat.
- Eat plenty of plants including fruit, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains—the best source of fibre.
- Use whole, natural fat sources like seeds and nuts instead of processed and animal fat sources like oil and ghee.
View an example of what your sample daily menu can look like. Using these basic principles, convert the options given to suit your region and personal tastes.
You are always welcome to skip any meal or have a salad or fruit only for any meal if you are not hungry. You do not need to eat something every 2 hours. Eat only according to your hunger. By tracking your blood sugar levels you will soon learn how the type of food you eat impacts your blood sugar level.
The quicker you learn to enjoy salads and chutneys loaded with fresh ingredients, nutrition, fibre, and taste enhancers like spices, herbs, and natural, oily nuts and seeds in their whole form, the more you will start to enjoy fresh and healthy tastes. Today you’ll learn how to prepare some delicious, oil-free Indian salads and coconut chutney.
Watch this video by Dr. Nandita Shah to learn how to make the following raw Indian salads:
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- Cucumber salad with coconut, coriander, lime, and peanuts
- Carrot salad with a tempering of mustard seeds, red chilies, curry leaves, and hing
- Kosumbari salad with moong daal, carrots, coriander, coconut, ginger, and lime juice
- Beetroot salad with lime juice and roasted sesame seeds
KEY INGREDIENTS
Cucumber Salad
- 1 cup unpeeled, chopped cucumber
- 1 teaspoon chopped green chilies or to taste
- 2 tablespoons whole, roasted, crushed peanuts
- 1 heaping tablespoon freshly-grated coconut
- ¼ teaspoon salt or to taste
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves
Carrot Salad:
- 1 cup unpeeled, grated carrots
- 1 teaspoon chopped green chilies or to taste
- 1 tablespoon freshly-grated coconut
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
- 4–5 curry leaves
- 1 dried red chili
- Pinch of hing (asafetida)
- 1 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves
Kosumbari Salad:
- ½ cup yellow moong dahl
- 1 cup unpeeled, grated carrots
- 1 tablespoon chopped coriander leaves
- 1 tablespoon freshly-grated coconut
- 1 teaspoon finely-chopped ginger
- Salt to taste
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- ½ teaspoon mustard seeds
- 4–5 curry leaves
- 1 dried red chili
- Pinch of hing (asafetida)
Beetroot Salad:
- 1 cup unpeeled, grated beetroot
- Salt to taste
- 1 tablespoon lime juice
- 1 teaspoon roasted, crushed sesame seeds
Watch this video by Nandini Gulati to learn how to make coconut chutney with fresh coriander—a delicious way to incorporate fresh greens into your daily diet.
KEY INGREDIENTS
Coconut Chutney
- 1 cup coriander leaves with tender stems
- 2 tablespoons freshly-grated coconut
- 1 teaspoon chopped green chilies or to taste
- 2-inch piece of dry tamarind
- ½ teaspoon freshly-grated ginger
- Salt to taste
- ¼ cup water
Firoze Vakil was a cynic and loved his non veg and coffee. A committed non vegetarian. Within 21 days his blood pressure came down to normal, antacids taken for 15 years have stopped and skin creams for rashes have stopped.
“I converted from a cynic to a believer after seeing my results!”
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