Traditional Native food diet.....

What do you think of the traditional diet of meat, vegetables, fruits that our elders followed before the introduction of white......white flour...rice...sugar? I think we all agree that these have been killing our people off since they were introduced. Is it realistic to try to think we can follow that now? What are your thoughts and opinions?

OF COURSE IT IS REALISTIC with WLS! If you eat those things that have ruined our diets, and that we LOVE so much, you will have problems.If it wasn't for this surgery I would be doomed. I just do not have the will power to NOT eat those things all of the time and to replace them with protein and veggies. SOOOOO, this is my rebirth, and I AM STICKING TO IT! Patticake

Sounds good to me. Since most of us have been on about or tried to follow most of the diet programs out there some of us have learned a lot about dieting, and realize that these diets are doomed to fail. Studies have indicated the Native Americans can't tolerate the carbohydrates well and to us they have become a poison, causing the rampant spread of diabetes in those that Are Native American. Especially now attacking the Youth and elderly. I watch what I buy now more than I did when I was on any of these diets trying to illiminate products that contain sugars and excessive carbs. We have learned that Carbohydrates, and isulin help trigger the hunger mechanisms, and with the competition of the food industries trying to come up with foods that are fast, tasty, and easy to prepare. we have foods that not only have became loaded with carbs, but have had a devastating effect on this country and the fight against obesity. I have came to the opinion that we need to have a voice to educate people to the fact that maybe a hundred years ago people became obese because of overeating. But today the causes vary from each individual and I blame the addition to these food aditive as a major culpret of it. Some of us didn't have to eat much at all to become obese and surely didn't have to eat much to maintain the excess weight.

Yeah! thanks for pointing out things that are true but easy to ingore. My family are all hard workers and keep busy; but we still all struggle with our weight. my mother (white mountain - apache) is diabetic. she fights hard but won't give up sweet breads and sodas. she was not raised to drink water. I am having wls to change my body. I am also careful in how I feed my family. I rarely give my children white grains or garbage food. they are young still and are learning to love veggies and fruits. Maybe us youngers can raise a generation of children who are strong and healthy. Selina

there is a book called Superfood Rx that I was gonna get that has a lot of the original native staples in it. It's just like the movie Smoke Signals... we've all come to live on Frybread and Coke.