Introduction
Diabetes is one of the most recognized chronic diseases that have become an epidemic around the world. In 2013, data collected (Fast Facts Data and Statistics about Diabetes, 2013)d by the American Diabetes Association stated that nearly 26 million adults and children have diabetes. Out of which racially, 16.1% of total adult American Indian and Alaskan Native people have diagnosed diabetes (Fast Facts Data and Statistics about Diabetes, 2013).
The documentary titled ‘bad sugar’ enlisted on the website unnatural causes describes the as having the highest rate in the world of type II diabetes, in the Tohono O’Odham American Indian Tribe in the south of Phoenix, Arizona and the Gila River Reservation Tribe, Pima (Bad Sugar, 2008).
The documentary describes the economic, political, social and physical structures as important determinants of health. Unfortunately these tribes are deprived of these determinants where rates are seven times higher than national average, with half the population having type II diabetes and rates in children escalating rapidly.
The people of Tohono O’Odham American Indian Tribe although thrived in the desert had good sources of nutrition with local crops and game for hundreds of years but in the present depict a different picture. People are generally depressed due to the increase in diabetes and have accepted the fact that they are as much prone to it as any other family member, witnessing deaths of loved either due to the disease or due to complications during amputations. The people of Pima, although based alongside a river, come from the same tribe and cultivated crops with adequate irrigation, but now suffer from type II diabetes as well.
Genetics
Researchers have speculated the reas...
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... expressing his opinion S. Leonard Syme, on how prevention is the foremost solution to controlling diabetes in this community instead of funds being spent on the illness itself and emphasized on changing the formula (Bad Sugar, 2008).
Conclusion
Economic, environmental and social setbacks to the tribe of Tohono O’Odham contributed as the major reasons that made them suffer from Type II diabetes for many years. But with healthy interventions and economic recovery provides hope can help restore prosperity in this community.
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