Whole Life Expo (Nov 16, 2008)

Whole Life Expo is Canada's largest showcase of natural health, alternative medicine, and eco-friendly lifestyles. With 60 speakers and over 200 exhibitors, Whole Life Expo brings the most comprehensive array of natural health products and services ever gathered under one roof.

This year, the Whole Life Expo featured two lectures by Gabriel Cousins:

11:15am- 12:15pm
EATING FOR YOUR BIOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALITY
with Gabriel Cousens, MD
Stage One

Conscious eating begins with eating to enhance one's communion with the Divine, and as Gabriel Cousens, MD, says in Conscious Eating, “Food is a love note from God.” There is a basic blueprint for the cuisine that uplifts consciousness to the level of optimal experience for the individual and the planet. Within that, with over 30,000 gene variations and each of us being unique, knowing how to combine western scientific with eastern traditional systems for determining our biological individuality is key for life-long enjoyment of conscious eating.

Specifically, Gabriel discussed the genetic factors, parasympathetic/sympathetic process; fast or slow oxidizer system; blood type system (and associated lectins); B12 issues; and the Ayurvedic system.

1:45pm - 2:45pm
LIVE FOOD AS A CURE FOR DIABETES
with Gabriel Cousens, MD
Lecture Hall 205

While type-II diabetes is commonly thought of as incurable, world-renowned doctor Gabriel Cousens asserts otherwise. In his program and new book, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program, Cousens presents a breakthrough approach: reverse type-II diabetes through practical changes in nutrition and well-being in 21 days. His revolutionary new approach shows incredible results: medication use ceases within four days and many people have fasting blood sugars of less than 100 after three weeks. This talk presents simple dietary principles for recipes of low-glycemic and low-insulin-scoring meals that go hand in hand with the psycho-spiritual approach the author developed to help diabetes sufferers free themselves from disease, and debunk the myth that diabetes is incurable.

Society is always surprised by any new example of common sense (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
The allopathic tradition has long asserted in its well-known mantra that there is no cure for diabetes, which it considers a progressive, fatal disease. Diabetes is, in fact, completely reversible.

How Does Diabetes Manifest Statistically?
Diabetes affects 246 million people. One person dies every 10 seconds of it. Between 10 to 19 years are lost in the life of a diabetic.

The body becomes insulin resistant (the body blocks its own insulin). Insulin resistance produces inflammatory cytokines; these cross-react with tand damage the beta cells of pancreas. The inflammation accelerates the aging process. Hence, diabetes is accelerated aging.

Twenty-five percent of the children under the age of 15 have diabetes (why provide bicycles? why not go straight to the wheelchairs?). Note prevalent with diabetes is neuropathy, retinopathy, heart disease, alzheimers.

It is caused preeminently by excessive sugar in the diet, as well as excessive animal-derived fat, diary, TV, vaccines, agrochemicals, coffee/caffeine, cigarettes, fibreless diet, stress, lack of exercise, wheat, soy, excitotoxins. Genetics loads the gun; lifestyle pulls the trigger.

Crimes Against Wisdom
You don’t catch diabetes, you earn it by being a party to the culture of death. The Culture of Death sees people as economic commodities to be exploited. The Culture of Death is symolized by better living through chemistry and such initiatives as Codex Alimentarius www.codexalimentarius.net/

While on a trip to another village, Nasrudin lost his favorite copy of the Qur'an. Several weeks later, a goat walked up to Nasrudin, carrying the Qur'an in its mouth. Nasrudin couldn't believe his eyes. He took the precious book out of the goat's mouth, raised his eyes heavenward and exclaimed, "It's a miracle!"

"Not really," said the goat. "Your name is written inside the cover."

Look in the right place for the right answer.

The Culture of Life
The Culture of Life is symbolized by better living through better living. We don’t expect everyone to follow Gabriel Cousins’ program. In the case of diabetes, it is moderation in lifestyle that kills, the diabetic has to be a little radical. The diabetic is advised to reject the culture of death and join the culture of life. Here are some of the actions to investigate:

• See beauty in all that we do, people, and life
• Relationship
• Exercise
• Creative expression
• Humour
• Spiritual expression
• Mediation
• Breathing/pranayama
• Sleep
• Nurturance, love, connection
• Food
  
  

A 400-person study will occur in Patagonia and another study is planned in the Middle East.