Mr. Michael has always taken a good care of his health. He follows macrobiotic way of treatment, and eats low carbohydrate foods which are now popular in America. He, however, noticed that Americans' trend of health care frequently changes for it depends mostly on the fashion at the present time. In the end, many of them turn to supplementary nutrition which highly aims at profit makings. Many of these people abandon what is considered to be the core of natural treatment that is altering the diet.

Mrs. Dolores, Mr. Michael's mother, is 76 years old. She has diabetes and had to receive 56 units of insulin injection every morning and another 28 units in the evening. Even so, her blood glucose level was as high as 210 mg%. Moreover, she weighted as much as 94 kg for more than 20 years until she developed gonarthritis making it difficult for her to walk and have to use a walker. Walking difficulty scared her of walking a long distance. Thus, she tended to sit still for a whole day. The more she ate, sat and slept, the more her blood glucose rose as well as the amount of insulin injection she received. Every time she received more insulin, she would be fainted, and fatigued. These symptoms signified that her blood glucose level was lowered a lot after an insulin injection, thus, she had to eat more sugar to get rid of such symptoms. This has caused her blood glucose level to move up and down all the time.

Diabetes also made her hands and feet numbness. Many years of high blood glucose level caused her to develop hypertension. Every movement was so tiring that she had to live her life in depression.

Besides insulin injections, her doctor in America prescribed her medicines for hypertension, heart disease, blood cholesterol and even anti-pain medicine like morphine.

Mr. Eli, Mr. Michael's father, is 81 years old. He has diabetes, obesity and gonarthritis like Mrs. Dolores. They have almost the same kind of illnesses which may due to the same kind of eating habit. Mr. Eli weighted 111 kg. He took three kinds of pills for diabetes per day. They are 6 pills altogether. Even with such amount of medicine, his blood glucose level still reached as high as 205 mg%. He also had to take medicines for hypertension, gonarthritis and asthma.

Mr. Eli also felt depressed like his wife. He used to walk and plant trees in his garden. However, after being attacked by all these illnesses, he had to abandon everything and only sat, ate and slept.

Talking about courage, Dr. Wisarn said "Courage or mental power is important. Though, this formula doesn't require patients to starve to death, they are obliged not to eat carbohydrate foods including bread, rice, and fruits. To avoid this kind of food is very difficult for obesity and diabetes patients."

In that case, activities at Balavi had to be related to this concept. We urged Mrs. Dolores and Mr. Eli to practice qigong early in the morning. We allowed them to practice by sitting on the floor. Many fat people usually have short breaths in other words they don't normally breathe in deeply. When they don't inhale deeply, oxygen being exchanged won't function properly. This is why they are tired easily. Short breath can also cause them to have low blood oxygen level which can cause dizziness. After practicing qigong for 3-4 days, both of them felt better for qigong emphasized on taking deep breath.

Following by qigong was meditation. They learned meditation from the very beginning. Though, they had never practiced meditation before, they gradually developed and in the tenth day of meditating, they told us that they felt much fresher than before. In addition, I told Mrs. Dolores "Another reason that makes you feel better is that I don't prescribe anti-pain medicine with morphine that the American doctor gave to you. This kind of pill can suppress your feelings, makes you feel sleepy and don't feel like yourself. When meditation, however, our body will produce endorphins that makes you feel fresher and even having no physical pains."

For exercising, here at Balavi, we have hydro aerobics for them. Both Mr. Eli and Mrs. Dolores had never exercised for a long time. Actually, if only standing up, they would feel severe pain in their knees. They, however, found out that when they were in water, they could walk, move their arms and legs, and later they could dance like normal aerobic dance because the water's buoyancy that keeps them from feeling pain in their knees and can aerobic normally. By doing this, they can burn out a great deal of calories.

Another way of encouraging them is to program their minds. Both of them received mind programming which helped them feel relaxed and gain more confidence through minds controlling in subconscious state of mind.

The result of the ten-day course was that Mrs. Dolores could reduce five kg and her blood glucose level was lowered to 154 mg% without insulin injection. She only took one pill of mitformin in the morning and another in the evening. Her HbA1C also reduced from 8.2% to 6.6% (normal level is 4.5-6.2%). The pain in her knees also reduced and she no longer felt fainted. She sincerely said farewell to us that "The Thai staff here take a good care of me. Thai people are very nice. I enjoy Thai food and the exercise programs. To be honest with you, I'm really pleased with the results and promise that I will adapt my knowledge and use it in America."

Mr. Eli lost 8 kg and his blood glucose level reduced to 108 mg% by taking only half a pill of daonil per day. He said "My lost weights increase the quality of my life in various ways. From having difficulty in lifting up my arms and legs, I can now lift them up easily. The program arranged for me actually and greatly changes my life. I will recommend my friends who also have weight problems to follow this program."

After going back to America, Mr. Michael sent an e-mail to me that Mr. Eli could plant trees in his garden again after abandoning this activity for a few years because of his illness.

Yes, you can listen to a lecture on courage and altering the diet to cure diabetes in the Natural Treatment Expo on Sunday, May 15 2005 at 50th anniversary Building (Akarn Chalerm Phra Baramee Hasib Pee), Soi. Soon Wijai, New Petchburi Road.. You can attend and receive natural treatment books for Free! In addition, Dr. Wisarn Yaowapongsiri will be our co-speaker. For reservation, please call 02-6158822.