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Type II Diabetes Prevention

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Treatments and Prevention of Type II Diabetes
Indigenous people require diabetes treatment and management in order to control the medical condition. Diabetes management involves a healthy diet, regular exercise, medication if necessary and blood monitoring. According to the Mayo Clinic (2015) these steps will assist in maintaining normal blood sugar levels and delay the onset of type two diabetes. In today’s society, many Indigenous people are experiencing much difficulty in managing their disease as their access to health care and proper nutrition is extremely limited and isolated. This has a harmful effect on the Indigenous people, diabetes. Although diabetes is not curable, it is a manageable disease and treatment can make a difference which in return will lower the risk in development of the disease. Treating diabetes can be as simple changing the diet of the individual and participating in a regular physical fitness activity. A change in diet and weight control is often the first line of treatment which can be effective in lowering the blood glucose levels and preventing the onset of diabetes. Exercise has also been known to …show more content…

The government must ensure community resources and services are available to the Indigenous people, which can assist in managing the disease; such as, access to appropriate health care and health care professionals, access to healthy food options such as fresh fruits and vegetables and appropriate food choices according to Canada’s Food Guide, and finally providing education on the disease. If Indigenous people have a higher understanding regarding the impact that type two diabetes has on their life, they can be more aware of signs and symptoms, treatment, prevention and best practices. Although diabetes is a lifelong chronic condition, early access to health care and treatment results in a prolonged and healthy

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I attended the event titled Unnatural Causes Bad Sugar on Thursday, October 22 from 6 to 7 p.m. The event centered on the ways in which many factors influence people’s lives and significantly impact health. The first part of the event centered on watching a short video that focused on the damage to health that Native American tribes faced after they lost their water. There was a large increase in the amount of Native Americans who got diabetes and who were dying. It was thought that biology and genes were one of the main causes behind the increase in diabetes, but in reality there were many other factors. Geographic location, social and economic class status, and income level has an impact on a person’s health.

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In the book “Diabetes among the Pima: Stories of Survival”, the author, Smith-Morris states that more than any other population in the world, an American Indian tribe from the Southwest United States , also known as The Pima have the highest chance of having risks for type 2 diabetes. She also continues to argue in the book that the issue is not just a biomedical mater but something even larger. By living with the Pimas and studying the experiences, daily life, and views of Pima pregnant women over a decade, the author identified factors that are overlooked by research and interventions related to biomedical. In the process of studying the Pimas, the author also learn that both the indigenous population and the health care providers impact the social and cultural aspects in the community. The book took place in the Gila River

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Moreover, I held the health education for them and helped them learn to use the blood sugar monitor correctly. I also presented several examples to explain the seriousness of exacerbating diabetes. Patients will have many complications, such as diabetic retinopathy, diabetic cardiomyopathy, diabetic nephropathy and etc. Furthermore, I demonstrated how the blood sugar monitors work face to face. Make them understand that it is very useful and convenient for them to know well their blood sugar level, what is more, to control their health at any

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First of all, Indian American were sentenced to generations of poverty where is hard to get out of misery. Eliminating diabetes is the most important way to decrease the case of diabetes and any other chronic disease. Therefore, in order to solve the cases of diabetes among Indian, the government and society have to understand that Native American have a different functionalism system, and probably they may see their society in terms of tribes which is called interactionism system where every tribes is might be different from the others. Thus, the government cannot implies that they should also eat same food as of other people from US consume. In fact, they as owner of the US basically, they are supposed to receive a percentage of what the country produces.

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Given the high prevalence of diabetes among the Native Indians, Alaska America and the Lumbee Indian of North Carolina, there had been some interventions like, support tribal intervention in effort and fully funding for IHS that will help to provide a good geographical risk of the problem which will encourage community base research. The purpose of this paper is to implement education outreach programs that will help the people in the rural community of Robeson County to manage diabetes. The education outreach on healthy eating is focus in developing the strength of farming that they already have to better handle diabetes. With this approach they will not have to spend additional money to buy vegetables form the market.

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But the Department of Health and Human Services for Minority Health reports a rate of Type II Diabetes among Native Americans to average around 16%- and this is an average of many tribes throughout the US. For example, in some tribes, like the Pima Indian tribe of Arizona, the rate of Type II Diabetes is 50%. In addition, there is a rising rate of obesity in the Native American population with approximately a 33% rate of obesity across all tribes in the US. (Food Safety News, March 5, 2012 and Health and Human Services’ Office of Minority Health Data 2002). Although many Native Americans lost access to their traditional nutrition when moved to Reservations, the significant change in the rate of obesity and diabetes did not seem to appear until after World War II.

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