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Native American Tribe Has Highest Rate of Adult Onset Diabetes Worldwide

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The second largest Native American tribe, Tohono O'odham, (tah-HA-nah AW-dum) has the highest rate of adult onset diabetes in the world. Many of the tribe's 28,000 members live on a reservation in the desert in the U.S. southwest state of Arizona. Until 1960, no one had diabetes because people ate traditional foods that helped prevent the disease. But with the introduction of foods high in fat and calories, diabetes became widespread, including in children. Now the O'odham people are being encouraged to go back to eating the traditional foods and a cafe on the reservation is making those foods appealing. VOAs Deborah Block has the story.

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