In an effort to improve the health and well being of American Indian and Alaska Native youth and decrease obesity, First Lady Michelle Obama created Let's Move!...
Groundbreaking for the more than $6 million Diabetes Center for Excellence on the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation is June 18, reported WCAX News and the Watertown Daily Times ...
Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk joined the First Lady in planting of the three sisters in the White House Garden. (Photo courtesy of U.S...
St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford will visit Washington D.C. to encourage American Indian youth to eat healthy and engage in physical activity daily, reported UPI.com ...
Eating omega-3 fatty acids may reduce the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease that are associated with obesity, according to a new study of Yup’ik Eskimos i...
Arizona’s Pima Indians exceed the type 2 diabetes rate (38 percent) of the genetically similar Pima Indians in Mexico (6.9 percent) by five times, according to a 2006 study by the ...
Mary Annette Pember, Ojibwe, explores the medicating role food has played in her life, leading to obesity and diabetes, in her blog post "Eat, Pray, Love...East Some More" on Daily...