Groups > NATIVE AMERICANS, URBAN AND RESERVATIONS

Navajo Indians on the Reservation have the highest occurrence of diabetes because they are lamb herders and don't eat enough fruits and vegetables.

Also you will find a high useage of inhalents such as Lysol on the Reservation because the white man wouldn't let them have liquor on the Reservation because the white men determined that the Indians couldn't handle liquor. WOW...the white man has handled it real well.(sarcasm)

But the US uses additives and artificial ingredients that aren't allowed in other countries. So when those people come from those countries to live here they can develop problems too from their new environment.

Sweet Fromz, I have to say it again...
(((You know I love you but....)))

The label you are using is just that, a label.

Any group here before Columbus is First Nations... I don't care if they are Tuscarora (my Pair's paternal grandfather, who adopted their dad) or Anasazi, they could be mound-builders or much, much earlier....

True, JMHO, but it's silly to imply that those *before* the First... weren't also FIRST.
P.S. Funny, meeting you here...

I rarely check the front page, but I saw the teaser and was going to comment re:diabetes.

Along with other bad US habits, if the traditional way involved eating more smaller meals, you should attempt to return to that model. I was looking over the effects of gastric bypass on diabetes... smaller meals more often, whether enforced by an artificially shrunk stomach or personal choice, reduce diabetic symptoms.

I hate to say this, but the Family Dinner, where everyone sits down to several yummy courses and eats until they are stuffed (or forced to clean their plates) is probably the worst thing for our health.

If we only gorged once a month, I doubt that would cause any problems, but the Model Family has been touted as 'dinner together every evening' and large weekend brunches and potlucks.

I'm sure more fruits and veggies help, but didn't the traditional Inuit family subsist mostly on meats? Originally this low fruit/vegetable diet wasn't a problem. Fat is necessary within reason, but the refined carbs available now really mess with insulin regulation and face it, we don't burn many calories hunting in our grocery stores.

http://www.inuitdiabetes.ca/about-inuit-and-diabetes.html

SMoM, surprise, a plesant one for me :)

I know it's sematics (Should that be a word of the day?) but my experience is "First Peoples" and similar phrasing is almost always used to identify those who are thought to belong to the land bridge groups excluding those who may have come before - pre-Ozians (My term, austrailian aboriginal peoples) and Ainu for example.

Does this remind you of anything?

Gorgeous! Looks like a Frank Lloyd Wright window to me! (Maybe not what you were thinking, though.)

I'm glad you mentioned the Ainu, they don't get much air time. I doubt most US citizens realize that there were people on those islands before the Japanese.

Semantics would be a perfect word for the day!

((Have a great one!))

Hi just enjoying the discussion, I just wished to let you know I was listening...peace.

Eve

Research on indians and diabetes is not just a Navajo problem, but more wide spread. It seems that diabetes is happening to all aboriginal people, that includes Navajos, Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders and South American natives aswell. Research has been done by Professor John Martin of Arizona State University and his colleagues from South America have found that natives around the world have always lived on limited foods, even on the brink of starvation at times. So the last several decades were when food supply were more easily attainable and our mobility has become motorized. It is the lack of exercise that is killing natives, so we are doing it to ourselves for driving around the block for a big mac, when we should walk. EXERCISE... not just lamb and Navajos. So next time you go and do some research, before jumping the gun on a subject that is probably biased.

By the way it is the Pimas and Papagos who have the highest rate of diabetes. 3rd or 4th generation of diabetes for these groups.