Impact of Poverty and Stress on Diabetes among Native Americans

As Dr. Donald Warne explains, there is a direct biochemical connection between living in poverty and blood sugar levels. The stress of being poor and of having family members die young creates a complicated web of cultural values and beliefs that make controlling diabetes more difficult. Add to that the lack of availability of healthy food and it's no wonder diabetes rates are high.
This video is a Web-exclusive supplement to "Bad Sugar," Episode 4 of "UNNATURAL CAUSES: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?" This ground-breaking documentary series looks at how the social, economic and physical environments in which we are born, live, and work profoundly affect our longevity and health. The series broadcast nationally on PBS in spring 2008, and can be bought on DVD from California Newsreel, www.newsreel.org
Visit www.unnaturalcauses.org to learn more.

[@lostangel912]

We are watching almost the entire series in my health psychology class at the University of Toronto. Very informative.

[@Dealz1988]

They deserve better. Born into Poverty i thought I was looking at a third world country when I saw this.

[@WhiteStarWoman]

Kudos to the creator of this video! Well spoken, poignant, beatifully photographed and very educational. Maybe if enough people could see these things something could change like ... how about the government honoring just one of their treaties made with the native americans? Is that too much to ask?, that our government have just the smallest amount of honor?

[@walkingbear56]

Because war makes money... helping poverty doesn't help the rich....
Ethnic cleansing....the "white" authoritarian system that runs the show would rather see the red man just dissappear...its reminder of guilt for them.
But they are still here.. strong peoples.... with values that we should all learn from.
Thank you Don Warne for your truth, and for posting this video...I hope the 1029 people that have viewed it learn.