Presentation Year

2019

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Loowyza ColegroveBiologyUndergraduate Student

College or Department

Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

Indigenous peoples have always had a balanced nutritional diet. In my poster, I want to dive into the connection between Diabetes and its connection to Indigenous people. Modern day foods are nothing comparable to the cultivated food and resources the indigenous people thrived on. I feel that because of this epidemic, Indigenous people are more susceptible to having diabetes through their bodies not recognizing “modern day food” as real food. Due to the high concentrations of sugar and fatty foods today, this has created a wave of health issues for Indigenous peoples. More simply, their bodies struggle to process the unnecessary garbage that we choose to put in our bodies daily.

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Yes

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797

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