Why Indians may be more prone to weight problems
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Scientists have pinpointed a reason why people with Indian ancestry may be more prone to weight problems.
They have found this group is more likely to carry a gene sequence linked to an expanding waist line, weight gain and type 2 diabetes.
The sequence, discovered by a team led by Imperial College London, is carried by 50% of the population - but is a third more common in Indian Asians...
They have found this group is more likely to carry a gene sequence linked to an expanding waist line, weight gain and type 2 diabetes.
The sequence, discovered by a team led by Imperial College London, is carried by 50% of the population - but is a third more common in Indian Asians...
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Here's are other reasons.
Indigenous diets of grains, roots, vegetables, berries, fruits and game meat are healthy.
With the European conquest of the Americas, tribal people accustomed to a healthy natural diet were starved off their lands, confined to reservations and forced to eat a disease-causing diet of white flour, hardtack and often spoiled meat.
Today poverty and the limited availablility of fresh unprocessed foods on the rez, commodity foods like white flour, lard and processed cheese, and diet sodas and foods poisoned with aspartame, composed of 3 known neurotoxins, continue to wreak havoc on Indian's health.
The chemical cocktail in aspartame initially quenches thirst, then creates parching, addicting drinkers of beverages sweetened with phenylalanine.
The neurotoxin combination in aspartame was linked in early studies and proven in recent research to cause people to crave carbohydrates and thus gain weight. Marketed to diabetics and people with obesity as safer than sugar and diet products, the inclusion of aspartame actually makes people getter fatter, and be more prone to diabetes, and makes them addicted to the products providing a continually growing consumer base for multinational corporations.
Decades ago, both my great grandparents, and my grandfather Touchette had diabetes. It made Memere Touchette go blind. I limit sugar and eat a healthy whole foods diet.
Diabetes and obesity are epidemic and rising in Indian Country and throughout poor communities in America today.
Follow link to article on Indians, Diabetes, Obesity and Fry Bread -
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://caloriela...
http://www.as.ua.edu/ant/bindon/ant570/Papers/King/king...
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