Four Winds Native Nutrition Project

This project is funded by National Institutes of Health, NIDDK Branch and conducted by SDSU and Missouri Breaks. This is a 6-month nutrition project that is targeted towards diabetics. The program will track a teaching group that will be asked to eat a traditional diet following the “Four Winds Model for Native Nutrition”. They will also receive nutrition education at monthly meetings, followed by talking circles. The control group will be asked to eat their regular diet. At the completion of the project, the control group will also receive the same nutrition education classes that the teaching group received. Each group will be asked to fill out forms tracking their diet history during the study. We want to see if there is better blood sugar control for those who ate like the Native American ancestors. This project is taking place on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation.