Re: What cleanse to start with? (I'm diabetic)

Hi lisa,

1.) Spring water is best. The most economical thing to do is buy a Brita or PUR filter for your faucet...good idea for the shower too.

2.) The key to balacing the Ph in your body is to stick with the 3 month cleanse and eat right and exercise. Disease and illness comes from the body being out of balance. The more acidic you are the more problems you will have. When you eat improperly and don't exercise you can expect to be more acidic which promotes diseases like Diabetes. You need to eat foods that will help to rebuild the immune system and support the adrenal system. The better you eat the better you will feel. Balancing your system is key to good health. You must exercise and eat raw fresh veggies and fruit everyday. That's why I suggest good salads. Use vinegar based dressings and the protein of your choice. You should feel satisfied. Ph balancing will take some time but take advantage of the cleanse your on and stick to the diet and lets see how you start to feel. Getting balanced will help your diabetes a lot. Acidic foods are your basic "junk food", over processed, lots of processed dairy,grains and refined sugars. Let's not leave out the horrible choices that we make in the beverage department....soda, bottled juices are all bad choices. Freshly squeezed juices are the better choice. Water with a squeeze of lemon or lime is really nice. That's the preferred drink at our house. The kids love it!...getting rid of Diabetes is in your hands. If you make the right choices and get your body balanced and keep it there you will see positive changes.

Stay away from processed soy products (milk too) and eat only live dairy(yogurt and some cheeses).....not healthy!

3.)To answer your question on artificial sweetners I have choosen to copy an article and comment from Dr. Mercola. He is a respected health advocate that is very out spoken (a bit like Kevin Trudeau but he's a doctor).


American sugar cane and beet farmers have developed a new Web site devoted to spreading the "Truth About Splenda."

The site will post comments from Americans who feel misled by Splenda advertisements and will provide a forum for people to share their experiences with the chlorinated artificial sweetener.

The Web site,
http://www.truthaboutsplenda.com,
was launched in 2005 in response to Splenda's marketing campaign that incorrectly touted Splenda as natural.

Thousands Have Already Posted Comments

Since its launch, thousands of people have submitted comments to the site. Some have spoken of Splenda's marketing campaign as being misleading and immoral, while others commented on health consequences of eating the artificial sweetener, how it reacts in baked goods and how it tastes.

The Web site's goal is to help better educate Americans about Splenda, so that the public becomes aware that it is, in fact, a chlorinated artificial sweetener. The site welcomes all comments and hopes to become a useful educational resource for all.




U.S. Newswire December 15, 2005



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Dr. Mercola's Comment:


Though I am not a fan of sugar (whether from beets, sugar cane or otherwise), if I had to choose between sugar or Splenda (or any other artificial sweetener, for that matter), sugar would win, hands down.

That's why I must applaud the American sugar cane and beet farmers who have aligned their views with my own -- at least when it comes to getting the word out about the potential dangers and misleading advertising of Splenda.

Of course, the sugar farmers surely have their own agenda for spreading this message, but I have none -- other than protecting you and your family from this artificial sweetener that bears more chemical similarity to DDT than it does to sugar.

Splenda's manufacturers have gone to great lengths to suggest that Splenda is natural and safe by using the slogan, "made from sugar so it tastes like sugar." But after the sugar has been treated with chemicals like trityl chloride, acetic anhydride, and thionyl chloride in the presence of dimethylformamide, 4-methylmorpholine, and methyl isobutyl ketone, it is anything but a sugar molecule.

By the end of the chemical processing Splenda goes through, it resembles nothing found in nature. This product is not natural, nor is it a real sugar. It isn't even close.

And, if you haven't yet heard, the long-term safety of Splenda has never been established. In fact:

There have only been six human trials to date
The longest trial lasted three months
At LEAST 15 percent of Splenda is not excreted from your body in a timely manner
In the meantime, since there is a complete absence of any useful long-term human studies, I've been researching effects of Splenda based upon information collected from various individual case studies. The following symptoms have been noticed within a 24-hour period following consumption of Splenda products:

Skin -- Redness, itching, swelling, blistering, weeping, crusting, rash, eruptions, or hives (itchy bumps or welts). This is the most common allergic symptom that people have.
Lungs -- Wheezing, tightness, cough, or shortness of breath.
Head -- Swelling of the face, eyelids, lips, tongue, or throat; headaches and migraines (severe headaches).
Nose -- Stuffy nose, runny nose (clear, thin discharge), sneezing.
Eyes -- Red (bloodshot), itchy, swollen, or watery.
Stomach -- Bloating, gas, pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or bloody diarrhea.
Heart -- Palpitations or fluttering.
Joints -- Joint pains or aches.
Neurological -- Anxiety, dizziness, spaced-out sensation, depression.
In a nutshell, Splenda is simply not as perfectly safe as the manufacturers would have you believe.

If you are still using Splenda, I urge you to take a look through the Web site above, and then check out the pages of testimonials from our own readers who feel they have been harmed by Splenda -- then decide if using this largely experimental product is really worth the risk.

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4.) Keeping to the diet above will impact any Candida overgrowth that you have. Again, it's all about what your put into your body and how consistant you are.

Bumping up the fiber is a good idea once you feel your ready.


Keep me posted on your progress and let me know if I can answer any other quetions.

It was good talking to you.

Namaste,

Kelley Franzmann

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