Reclaiming Your Health: Lessons from the Marshall Islands - Brenda Davis, R.D.

Do you struggle with your weight, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, or cardiovascular disease? Has your doctor ever given you a prescription for a healthy lifestyle? While medications and surgery can help to reduce the symptoms of chronic diseases, only diet and lifestyle changes have the power to reverse them. In this presentation, you will be touched by the amazing story of the Marshallese people and their battle with a nationwide diabetes epidemic. The Marshallese experience among the highest rates of type 2 diabetes in the world, with close to 50% of adults over 35 years being affected. Registered dietitian, best-selling author, and internationally acclaimed speaker Brenda Davis shares a story of recovery that will inspire you to make diet and lifestyle changes that could save your life.
Brenda Davis R.D., registered dietitian and nutritionist, is a leader in her field and an internationally acclaimed speaker. She has worked as a public health nutritionist, clinical nutrition specialist, nutrition consultant and academic nutrition instructor. She is currently the lead dietitian in a diabetes intervention research project in Majuro, Marshall Islands. A co-author of six books — the best-sellers, Becoming Vegetarian, The New Becoming Vegetarian, Becoming Vegan, Defeating Diabetes, Dairy-free and Delicious, and the newly released, Raw Revolution Diet — she is currently working on a 7th book to be released in the summer of 2009.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Diabetes
• cardiovascular disease
• high blood pressure
• obesity
• diet
• nutrition

[grandmajoyce2]

I really enjoyed this video, although I'm not diabetic. It is fact-filled and has lots of good info for anyone to use. Also, Brenda Davis is a highly reputable nutritionist, so her information can be relied on to be relevant and true.

[osii56]

That is the greatest intro music ever!

[jarmil2003]

Very interesting video. I am trying to eat healthy and try to buy all organic. So, is there a brand rice that you recommend?

[CatBornAgain]

REGULAR FLAXSEEDS ARE GENETICALLY MODIFIED NOWDAYS.

BUY ONLY ORGANIC.

[CatBornAgain]

Pls. TRY and NOT EAT SEEDLESS WATERMELONS OR SEEDLESS ORANGES, OR SEEDLESS GRAPES, TANGERINES, ETC.

IT IS NOT NATURAL AND DOES NOT HAVE THE VITAL FORCE THAT THE GOD-CREATED SEEDED FRUITS AND VEGGIES.

[CatBornAgain]

WATCH OUT FOR GENETICALLY MODIFIED ''RICE'' -- IT IS POISON TO THE SYSTEM, EVEN IF IT IS ''BROWN RICE''.

MUST BUY YOUR ORGANIC RICE, OR RICE THAT IS 100 PERCENT FROM THAILAND AND VIETNAM [MAYBE EVEN RICE FROM CHINA AND INDIA, BUT HAS TO BE INVESTIGATED] -- SO THAT YOU DO NOT CONTAMINATE YOURSELF WITH FUNGAL CONDITIONS AND/OR MORGELLONS, OR CANDIDA THAT THESE ''GMO'' OR GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS WILL BRING INTO YOUR ORGANISM.

[CatBornAgain]

ALSO watch out for GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS and GRAINS, such as POTATOES, CORN, SOYBEANS, TOMATOES, GREEN SQUASH, CANTALOUPES, RADISHES, etc.

REAL POISON for you.

WATCH out for petrochemical waxes on fruits, such as apples, and possibly even pears, some plums, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers [may be peeled] --

LAST THING to watch for is IRRADIATED FOODS, and if it starts with a 3

such as 3125 it has been IRRADIATED, and does not have the vital energy that the non-irradiated foods have.

[CatBornAgain]

IT's THE BLEACHING of the WHEAT that is DESTRUCTIVE TO HEALTH.

EUROPEANS EAT ''UNBLEACHED'' FLOUR AND HAVE NO ADVERSE EFFECTS AT ALL LIKE IN AMERICA and/or other COUNTRIES THAT HAVE LEARNED FROM AMERICA to BLEACH THE FLOUR, WHICH IS A PROCESS UTILIZING [from what I heard] DOG BONES are used to produce the whiteness and the bleaching OF THE WHITE flour IN AMERICA, UK and possibly even CANADA, also BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, etc.

YUCK.