Lisa Falk, ASM director of education and blog editor provokes you to think about the questions raised in ASM’s newest exhibit Through the Eyes of the Eagle: Illustrating Healthy Living for which she is the lead curator.
Our newest exhibit, Through the Eyes of the Eagle: Illustrating Healthy Living, uses objects, stories, photos, videos, hands-on activities, comic book art and children’s book illustrations to explore Native American history, culture and wellness.
Did you know that one in three children in America are obese? Did you know that over 50% of the Tohono O’odham have diabetes? Why? What can help reverse this growing epidemic?
Come explore our exhibit to discover the answers to those and the following questions:
What disease does more people die from: cancer, AIDs or diabetes?
Why do traditional foods of the Tohono O’odham help prevent diabetes?
While playing what traditional Tohono O’odham women’s game might you get wet?
In 1930s1.4 million pounds of tepary beans were produced on Tohono O’odham farms. How many pounds were produced in 2001?
What three plants did the Hohokam cultivate?
Archaeologists found sandals dating to 600 AD in a northeastern Arizona Ancestral Pueblo village. What were they made of? What about these shoes indicated who was wearing them?
Who invented mukluk boots?
What is toka?
Which Native American athlete won the 10,000 meter race in the 1964 Olympics?
Which commercial shoe is a popular canvas for some Native American artists today?
What does skateboarding provide for Native youth?
What kinds of designs are Native artists putting on skate decks?
Indian fry bread is made from what products? Where did tribes get these products in large amounts on a regular basis?
What does insulin do?
Can you prevent diabetes?
What is Tohono O’odham Community Action doing to help turn around the epidemic of diabetes for the Tohono O’odham Nation?
Who are Samantha, Brandon and Tomás? Where can you find them?
Come visit the museum between now and January 7th to find out the answers. Also please join us on November 12th for A Healthy Celebration, a free multicultural health fair with fun activities and performances for the whole family. You may also find this online resource of interest for an introduction to Tohono O’odham foodways.
Arizona State Museum is proud to be a Let’s Move! museum. Join us in understanding how culture, history and health are related.
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You must always eat vegetable salad without any fatty dressing before starting your meals. This will help you satisfy your hunger. For intake of proteins, you must go for fat free dairy products, egg yolks, de skinned poultry and all this in moderate amounts. One should avoid other proteins foods that have a high level of saturated fats and cholesterol like pork, shell fish and meat.
Re: Your blog info on Can you prevent diabetes and one in three children in America are obese? I think that you are doing a great job to help parents to become alert of this problem of obesety in kids around the world.
I read an artical from a Dr Atkins, whom promotes to your teaching of helping individuals overcoming this worldwide problem.
He said that the best ways to aviod becoming obese is to reduce one’s intake of carbohydrates.
The maximum amount of carbohydeates that a person should eat on a daily basics is no more then 20 grams, untill the individual has reached the ideal weight.
And once the individual has reached to the ideal weight, we should eat no more the 100 grams per day.
This will in Dr Atkins opinon stablise one weight.
The sad situation that we see in the world to day is that individuals are eating themself’s to death by eating thousands of grams of carbohydrates per day, which I beleive turns to excess suger, which turns to extra fat around the belley.
We should all adopt a healthy lifestyle. If we have a disease or condition, we should get proper treatment for them and then follow a healthy lifestyle within limits dictated by the disease or condition.