HOW HEALTHY FOOD CHOICES CAN HELP PREVENT TYPE 2 DIABETES

Friday, December 4, 2015
Institute for American Indian Arts, Center for Lifelong Education
Santa Fe
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During this interactive educational session, which included a cooking demonstration and tasting, participants learned “How Healthy Food Choices Can Help Prevent Type 2 Diabetes.”

In addition to recognizing how food marketing and labeling affects our food choices, participants learned to apply practices that incorporate Native American knowledge about traditional foods, agricultural practices, wild food harvesting techniques, and using food as medicine. Our presenters included:

• Christie McAuley, Project ECHO
  Media & Food Choices Presentation // SNL Spoof on Taco Town
• Lois Ellen Frank, Ph.D., Native American Culinary Anthropologist, IAIA
  View Menu // Download Food for Life recipe book
• Caroline Trapp, DNP, ANP-BC, CDE, FAANP, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
  Learn more about the Food for Life curriculum 
• And, featuring success stories from Lyle Etsitty with the Tséhootsooí Medical Center and Margilene Barney with the Crownpoint Navajo Nation Special Diabetes Project