The raw diet questions

Lately I've been having a major convergence of thoughts and ideas regarding my diet, and finding a "cure" for the disease I personally struggle with and other related diseases that our nation at large is having a hard time fighting off. An Internet search on "diabetes" and "cure" will bring up either Western Medicine establishments saying there simply is none, or a raw food diet plan. Dr. Gabriel Cousens requests a very big check and time commitment to visit his Arizona retreat to be evaluated and treated. A lucky few were sent there free of charge in 2009 to be a part of this video project he made called, Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days, which gives a glimpse into the program. Unfortunately the token Type 1 did not fully participate in the food plan, so his results can't really be qualified.
The plan seems to be 100% fully raw and vegan, eliminating caffeine and alcohol. Now the question is, can I save the $10k and do this at home under doctor supervision? Will it work? There are some obstacles to consider:

• It can be quite hard to go out and be social without drinking (although many people do this). 
• It can be very difficult to find restaurants that serve a raw food option, plus there is the pressure of sitting next to your friend's juicy burger and fries.
• One is constantly facing the uncertainty of what ingredients the restaurant has snuck into your meal. 
• I imagine it's hard to reverse the idea that coffee is an agent against healthy blood sugar, since it doesn't give the immediate effects of spikes.

So eating out is a challenge and a potential strain on the social life. It means taking more time to prepare meals and plan ahead (probably no different to the effort to remember your insulin everyday and keep stock of supplies, balance the constantly changing amount of insulin your body needs with the constantly changing amount you have on board). All this makes me frustrated on a daily basis with my current diet (no gluten/corn/dairy/processed or high carbs), which is just halfway to what the raw food diet suggests. Plus it's giving these food items up for life. It's becoming sober and saying goodbye to coffee forever. Is that worth not having to deal with a high number in the morning b/c your fell asleep without your pump on? Or waking up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night b/c your over corrected after dinner and now you're hypoglycemic. I'd say YES! And I think I'm heading in that direction, although it sure would make it a whole lot easier if the food industry embraced raw food and integrated it into our society of "convenience" as much as the fast food industry has become so ubiquitous across the country.Dr Robert H. Lustig writes that it's the food industry and the FDA that are to blame in his book FAT Chance; Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease. And author Michael Moss confirms the tricks of the processed food industries, in his investigative book Salt Sugar Fat. So the word is getting out there. Will it change the way we nourish ourselves in this country? Will it happen fast enough for me to see the benefits? What do you think, would you do it?