Fwd: [thechat] Silk?

[Erika Meyer]

jeff wrote:

>refined sugars (and refined wheat).

Indigenous Americans have far higher rates of adult-onset diabetes 
than Euro-Americans, for which the above is blamed... along with all 
the fat in our modern diets.

Funny that we think of stuff like frybread -- that fluffy flour 
concoction cooked in lard -- as "Indian" food.  Frybread came about 
in the reservation era, when traditional hunting / gathering / 
farming diets (that required a land base) were replaced with 
government-issue rations: sugar, flour, lard.

mmm.  lard.

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