The Breakdown of Indigenous Culture and the Rise of Diabetes

The basic reason why you and I have type 2 diabetes may be because we have broken ties to our culture. Another way of saying this is that our Western culture is itself broken.

This is still an hypothesis, but it’s one that follows from research into the root cause of diabetes among First Nations people of Canada, Aboriginal Australians, the Pima Indians of Arizona. Studies have found a link between cultural collapse and...

Source: David Mendosa's SharePosts - February 5, 2015 Category: Endocrinology Authors: David Mendosa Source Type: blogs