[ppaul]

Native Americans...balloon up and get Type 2 diabetes if they eat a European diet.

Not all "Native Americans" were corn-eaters.
The Plains Indians ate MEAT - i.e.: Buffalo - and lots of it!

[CobaltBlue]

Plains Indians didn't eat much meat until they got horses, which were not native to the Americas, and were brought here by the Spaniards first.

Without horses they were mostly hunters and gatherers, eating wild food.

I was just thinking about how much more wild food I used to eat, growing up in South Louisiana as a kid. Fish, shrimp, crabs, crawfish, wild ducks, venison. And wild berries in the spring, and wild greens.

Nature's bounty. Very healthy.