RE: Diabetes & cging

**Sharon Gordon g*@one.net**

A great resource for this would be Gary Nabhan and/or his book
Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods,
2002, ISBN 0393323749.

He is involved with a group of Native Americans who
are researching and rediscovering that eating
traditional local foods and exercising are reducing
the incidence of diabetes.  This is only a portion of
the book, but from what I could pick out of the narative
they seem to be using garden foods, wild gathered foods,
and in-the-process-of-being-domesticated wild foods.

He has probably presented some academic papers on this
as well, so you might do a lit search for those.

Gary also talks quite a bit about his year of eating
90% regional and predominately whole foods -- grown, fished, or gathered
within 250 miles of his Arizona home.
Might be a fun challenge to work toward too with your community
gardeners.

Sharon
gordonse@one.net

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