Film about raw food and diabetes

A documentary about the effects of eating raw food on diabetes will be screened on Monday, February 28, at Cinema Paradiso in Ettalong from 7:30pm.

It is part of a series of Disease Proof Your Life movie seminars held on the last Monday of each month by organiser Ms Jenny Taylor.

This month's movie Simply Raw is a documentary film that chronicles six diabetics who switch to a diet consisting of organic, vegan and uncooked food to reverse the disease without prescription drugs, she said.

The culturally diverse participants are challenged to give up meat, dairy, sugar, processed and packaged food, and cooked food for 30 days.

The film was released in the United States in 2008 by documentary director Mr Morgan Spurlock.

"Morgan is an American independent documentary film director, TV producer, and screenwriter, known for the documentary film Super-Size Me, in which he attempted to demonstrate the negative health effects of McDonald's food by eating nothing but McDonalds three times a day, every day, for one month," said Ms Taylor.

"Diabetes is such a massive problem today and it's getting worse.

"Type two diabetes used to be known as adult-onset diabetes as it was only adults that got it.

"Today we have children with type two diabetes as well as adults and the numbers are getting higher," said Ms Taylor.

"The medical approach to this disease is a lifetime of drugs, insulin injections and a band aid approach at best that, for most, does not stop the ravages of this disease which can lead to blindness, limb amputations, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimers and more," she said.

Ms Taylor said the film showed that diabetes and other illnesses can be reversed by a raw food diet.

"These are by far not the only people that have done this.

"This truth has been evidenced by individuals all over the world who have taken their health into their own hands and reversed not only diabetes, but cancer, heart disease and almost any other chronic disease you can think of.

"It's simple and it works," she said.

With inquiries, contact Jenny on 0417 206 935.

Media Release, 13 Feb 2011 Jenny Taylor, Umina