Diabetes in the Australian Indigenous Community

(Sarah) #1

This is so terribly sad and frustrating.

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(Rob) #2

It is and it happens the world over. There are American First Nations members here who can attest to the epidemic proportion in NA aboriginal populations.

When you look at the chronic obesity and sickness in the Pacific Islander popoulation, you can trace most of it back to the adoption of rice as a staple food, mostly since WW2.

Inuits, when first surveyed had superior (lower) rates of chronic diseases. When you look now, as the western diet has invaded their nutrition they are getting similar rates of disease.

Masai who move to the Kenyan cities get as or more sick than the locals and far more than their traditional village dwelling brethren.

Even the Okinawans who were the gold standard for longevity now have a below average life expectancy as their HCLF diet has been polluted by standard western foods.

At least we are uniting the world in homogenous chronic sickness. Yay for globalization! :cry:

(Ken) #3

Don’t forget the massive diabetes and other Carb related disorders among the Bantu peoples of South Africa.

It’s the same pattern world wide, the shorter time a culture has been exposed to carbs, the more massive the problem.

Studies of mummies in Egypt showed the same thing, as Egypt and other Fertile Crescent areas were among the first to go to Carb based eating patterns.

(Doug) #4

Time has passed, but in the last few months my 80 year old mother-in-law has reversed her Type 2 diabetes. Her doctor said she’s now “free” of it, and that it’s amazing in one so old. Full-blood Mohawk indian, not “keto” all the way, but went hard at cutting out sugar and refined carbohydrates, and processed food in general.