November 27, 2009
Poverty, Stress & Diabetes among Native Americans
As Dr. Donald Warne explains, there is a direct biochemical connection between living in poverty and blood sugar levels. The stress of being poor and of having family members die young creates a complicated web of cultural values and beliefs that make controlling diabetes more difficult. Add to that the lack of availability of healthy food and it's no wonder diabetes rates are high. This video is a Web-exclusive supplement to "Bad Sugar,"Episode 4 of "UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making …
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Comments on Poverty, Stress & Diabetes among Native Americans
We are watching almost the entire series in my health psychology class at the University of Toronto. Very informative.
if you got off your fat redskinned asses got a job and stopped drinking everything in sight diabetes might not plague your rats nest reservations
btw i see the well versed use of spraypaint in this vid
They deserve better. Born into Poverty i thought I was looking at a third world country when I saw this.
It is obvious by your response that you know nothing about how I live, but yet feel somehow in a position to offer me solutions to my "problems".
I suggest you look up in your Bible the parole of Jesus quoted in Matthew 7 verse 5.
Man, shut the fuck up, you fucking welfare motherfucker.
Go collect your treaty check and spend it on booze. Follow "your people's" long set traditions of welfare, making babies, more welfare and "free" government handouts.
Jus another gay guy that puts too much sugar in his coffee and dose not no what the fuck he talking about like taking pics of little kids wtf
Kudos to the creator of this video! Well spoken, poignant, beatifully photographed and very educational. Maybe if enough people could see these things something could change like … how about the government honoring just one of their treaties made with the native americans? Is that too much to ask?, that our government have just the smallest amount of honor?
I think you got it right when you said American kids. We are many of varied ethnic origins - usually mixed. And I don't want to dwell on the past that none of us had any control over. Lets force the gov. to do the right thing for all of us. Lets live united as equals.
Yes sugar kills. And some peoples are genetically more succeptable to its effects - American Indians and Polynesians. Indians were set against each other long before this gov. They thought they were using stupid whites against their neighboring enemies. In those days "to the victor go the spoils" was the rule.
There is always corruption where money is concerned, and the gifts of the government to set traditional against modernist indians has always been a sticking point. Assimilation or anihilation was the order of the day (and still is).
Refined sugar is worse than cocaine in its addictive ness..and most things are now pumped so full of it.. take look at many american kids on the whole to see the results of a generation brought up on coke and McDonalds. "The Shit Generation"
Refined sugar is the most incedious poisn on the planet. Alcohol is a close second. Again, a very complex issue. Poverty alone does not create stress The " American Indian" leaders have let their people down more than anyone.
Because war makes money… helping poverty doesn't help the rich….
Ethnic cleansing….the "white" authoritarian system that runs the show would rather see the red man just dissappear…its reminder of guilt for them.
But they are still here.. strong peoples…. with values that we should all learn from.
Thank you Don Warne for your truth, and for posting this video…I hope the 1029 people that have viewed it learn.
What you say has some truth, many problems are created from within the indian population.
This is a result of a concerted genocide by the authorities that created the USA., who feared the Red people.
What we have now is the result of 500 years of a slow torture of a peoples. Ethnic cleansing.
It does nt have to be like that, but it will take much work and the end of what is known as assimilation trying to make red people white.
"Crows do not need to be Eagles"
Natives are whole bunch of losers abusing drugs and alcohol, it doesn't matter who being President, they will still are losers because they just want pity from people instead of fight for their sucess.
What confuses me is that Bush spent billions of dollars for the war,while our own country is struggling.
It's very sad. Only in america would this sort of poverty be allowed to remain.