Post by blackcrowheart on Dec 7, 2006 11:59:24 GMT -5
California Native Americans are recovering from diabetes in record
numbers
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Peggy Pico takes us inside the Rincon Reservation to find the secret to
their success.
Tradition transformed into exercise for 72 year old Christina Orosco and
5,000 other Native Americans from nine different tribes.
Seventy four pounds - that's how much weight Orosco lost in 18 months
after she joined the Indian Health Council's Diabetic Program.
"My husband was a diabetic he lost both his legs and I lost him when he
was 66 years old," Christina said.
She's far from alone. Native Americans living on reservations across the
country have the highest percentage of diabetics of any population group
in the world - but most think there's not much they can do about it.
"Well my parents had it, my grandparents had it, so I'm probably going
to get it and there's not much I can do about and we're trying to change
this now," Corinna Nyquist of the Indian Health Council said.
It starts with a culturally-sensitive diet that includes buffalo meat.
Free food classes demonstrate diabetic friendly recipes.
And tribe elders allow staff from the clinic make house calls.
"We have a public health nurse, we have the nutritionist and the
exercise specialist that will go out to the home," Corinna Nyquist said.
Lastly, a free gym membership and workout plan is mandatory for all
diabetics in the program.
The Indian Health Clinic's "Lifestyle as Medicine" program claims most
of their patients are able to control their diabetes by diet and
exercise alone.
numbers
www.kare11.com/news/health/health_article.aspx?storyid=139444
<http://www.kare11.com/news/health/health_article.aspx?storyid=139444>
Watch this story
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Peggy Pico takes us inside the Rincon Reservation to find the secret to
their success.
Tradition transformed into exercise for 72 year old Christina Orosco and
5,000 other Native Americans from nine different tribes.
Seventy four pounds - that's how much weight Orosco lost in 18 months
after she joined the Indian Health Council's Diabetic Program.
"My husband was a diabetic he lost both his legs and I lost him when he
was 66 years old," Christina said.
She's far from alone. Native Americans living on reservations across the
country have the highest percentage of diabetics of any population group
in the world - but most think there's not much they can do about it.
"Well my parents had it, my grandparents had it, so I'm probably going
to get it and there's not much I can do about and we're trying to change
this now," Corinna Nyquist of the Indian Health Council said.
It starts with a culturally-sensitive diet that includes buffalo meat.
Free food classes demonstrate diabetic friendly recipes.
And tribe elders allow staff from the clinic make house calls.
"We have a public health nurse, we have the nutritionist and the
exercise specialist that will go out to the home," Corinna Nyquist said.
Lastly, a free gym membership and workout plan is mandatory for all
diabetics in the program.
The Indian Health Clinic's "Lifestyle as Medicine" program claims most
of their patients are able to control their diabetes by diet and
exercise alone.