I’m curious as to the tribe which is big on education. I believe the state-of-the-art diabetes clinic is run by the Navajo Nation, right?
Truthfully, I’ve not heard of the education tribe before or since. But it is the Pima Indians that have horrific problems with diabetes.
The Pima are an odd bunch. Often black in skin tone, but a purplish black, not a brownish black like Negroes. The theory is that after centuries of living in near starvation conditions, their livers became extremely efficient, to the point where a hard working adult Pima could comfortably survive on 600-800 calories a day. (Hard working White Americans need over 2000 for adult women and 2800 for adult men.)
But there’s more. One of the main staples of the Pima diet was flour from ground mesquite bean pods. It is very low on the glycemic index, so diabetes was unheard of in the Indians of the time.
Yet you feed a Pima Indian a white style diet and they will balloon up.