Santa Fe woman discovers diabetes remedy in her Native roots

Deborah Busemeyer | For The New Mexican, Posted: Saturday, July 14, 2012.

When Karen Rencountre is at what she considers her ideal weight of 220 pounds, she is considered obese by national standards. She also has diabetes. But when she eats foods recommended to control the disease, her blood sugar level soars. She has spent a long time working to understand the apparent contradiction.

“I think there’s an assumption that people who are overweight eat too much,” she said. “But it could be the way their body responds to stress or trauma, or they don’t have access to food on a regular basis, or they haven’t learned the right foods for their body.”

To be healthy, the 26-year-old Rencountre said she had to shift her attention away from other people’s phobias about fat people and instead focus on the foods she eats and how her body functions as a result. Read More

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