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Indigenous diets can help fight modern illnesses, say health experts

Post author:Iris Rodriguez
Post published:February 4, 2014
Post category:Food is Medicine

Traditional food consumed by rural communities contain nutrients that are lacking in high- and middle-income countries. An Okiufa boy in Papua New Guinea. Grains long harvested by indigenous communities are…

Fighting Obesity & Preserving Culture With Indigenous Mexican Cuisines

Post author:Iris Rodriguez
Post published:January 15, 2014
Post category:Food is Medicine Recent

"Mexicans are looking back to traditional indigenous cuisine to help fight their obesity epidemic and for a way to discard the negative traditions of both Spanish and United States colonizers…

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