Traditional Food, Health
and Nutrition
Page Navigation Buttons---What we eat -- where it comes from, how it is raised, processed, cooked -- affects
our health in many ways. Traditional native diets in those few places in the world
where people still mostly eat what they raise, hunt, gather, fish -- have been found to
promote health and long life, for reasons only gradually coming to be understood.It isn't practical to recommend now for most of us that we eat buffalo, harvest wild
rice, farm corn in single hills, gather waupatoo or teepsinna. We'll see why those
traditional foods are health-promoting as modern biological and medical sciences
have belatedly learned. We'll see practical ways to improve health by food and diet --
starting when you are young to eat well to avoid health problems later. Cultural food
stories and practical recipes are here too.InfoSeek Select Site -- for this Traditional Foods section. It's always nice to be
appreciated. I really put in a lot of work on this section -- the recipes take quite a
while to type and index-link.I have lots of fun with this food section. But I think it's appropriate to point
out at the start of info for fun (good eating) and health that some Native people --
youth and elders especially -- are going to be affected to the point of malnutrition,
hunger, and serious health problems due to the political direction the U.S. is
taking. Here's a couple of brief statements from Native leaders about that. I hope
you will take the time to read and think about them, if you are not Indian, but
just interested in our culture or our foods and recipes. Indian people (U.S.)
already know, and are worrying.Another Broken Promise--Managing editor of Harvard University's
faculty-student liberal news news magazine Perspectives explains in the December
issue how these changes are going to result in malnutrition and health problems,
especially affecting unborn infants, young children pregnant mothers, and old
people. This is a good, clear summary of the situation as of early 1996.Native spokes-people, organizations testify how funding cuts are going to
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