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in three generations the Pima Indians have gone from 2% diabetes to over 80% diabetes is that due to like government funding or some sort or some wealth the availability of carbohydrates and they they pour perhaps sir yeah yeah yeah and you can see you know the the older versions of Pima Indians they're uniquely healthy people and then you know the the the contemporary Pima Indians are plagued by diabetes
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these it's an epidemic and it's basically in a position at an instance where carbohydrates are toxic to this population
the Pima Indians you know all of the southwestern Indians in the United States have this incredibly beautiful heritage they built they built things like Mesa Verde they built incredible structures they lived in a part of the world that's inhospitable by many standards but they thrived and they had incredible beautiful incredibly beautiful culture perhaps because of that environment or perhaps because of their just unique genetic lineage they are uniquely intolerant to carbohydrates they have the highest rate of diabetes in the world it's over 80% I believe in the tribe now because they eat carbohydrates right two or three generations ago the rate of diabetes and the Pima Indians was 3%