Diabetes among Native Americans - Genes or Environment?
WEB-EXCLUSIVE VIDEO, Unnatural Causes
The U.S. government has spent hundreds of millions of dollars over the past 40 years trying to uncover a biological explanation for why the Pima Indians of southern Arizona have one of the highest rates of diabetes in the world. But as Dr. Donald Warne tells us, diabetes was extremely rare here 100 years ago. What's changed? Not biology but environment.
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