Nutrition

clanp90x wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
The Houston Chronicle bravely comes out in favor of tortillas and beans… and cactus:

In [a] five-year program, community workers taught El Paso residents how to improve nutrition while enjoying their familiar Mexican-American border diet. El Paso’s 72 percent Latino population embraced the program and got strikingly more healthy.
By 2006, partly because of Que Sabrosa Vida, El Paso tied Austin for the Texas city with fewest obese adults. The number was 23 percent, down from 30 percent in 1996. Fifteen percent of the city’s eighth-graders were obese, compared with 19 percent in 2003.
…In El Paso, Que Sabrosa Vida applied the FDA food pyramid to Mexican and Tex-Mex food. [The program] should go further, explaining the medicinal traits of traditional Mexican foods.
In a recent book called The Jungle Effect, physician Daphne Miller studied the Tarahumara Indians of Copper Canyon, Mexico, and found that their diet — tortillas, beans, salsa […]

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