Native American Diet Research Paper

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a) a) How does the Native American past diet compare to today's Native American diet?
The Native American past diet was high in protein and low in fat. It’s important to note that Native Americans consumed the entire animal. Traditional Native American diet was free of refined sugar, white flour, vegetable oils, canned foods, milk and processed foods.
The Native American Diet today starts the way any smart diet does: with a simple, healthy diet. For example, fried bread make from wheat flour. The first part is always the hardest; giving up the things that are bad. That means letting go of or limiting refined and overly processed foods, giving up smoking, limiting your alcohol intake, and lowering the amount of sugar take in every day.
b) How

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