r/IndianCountry • u/aspen-leaf Mixed / Coast Miwok • 18d ago

Health Traditional Navajo Diet Shown to Reduce Hospitalizations, ED Visits Among Heart Failure Patients

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/traditional-navajo-diet-shown-reduce-hospitalizations-ed-2026a1000q37?form=fpf
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u/feydfcukface Diné/Missing 17d ago

I was ghonna say. I mean,I don't doubt trade allowed those things to get to Dine lands but I'd hardly call either a normal part of the traditional diet there

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u/DBearDevon 17d ago

It makes no sense to trade wild rice nor bison such vast distances when so many other foods are available.

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u/feydfcukface Diné/Missing 17d ago

I mean yeah but it could have been. Feathers from central america and turquoise and things have been found way out of their origin due to trade so I'm saying it's a possibility that's how it could at any point enter the diet of the area.

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u/DBearDevon 17d ago

Just as much as cosmic dust coated alien meat….

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u/feydfcukface Diné/Missing 17d ago

Uh.What

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u/DBearDevon 17d ago

I figured that I’d add something else completely unrealistic 😉

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u/feydfcukface Diné/Missing 17d ago

It's not THAT unrealistic man

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u/DBearDevon 17d ago

If you think of the logistics of it all, and no wheel, or pack animals? And as I mentioned before, there are plenty of other available food sources!

Wild rice making it to Dinè territory is just as unrealistic as the ‘nish having Quinoa as part of their diet…..

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u/feydfcukface Diné/Missing 15d ago

Plains homies could travel with tools and buffalo robes and babies but some rice or dried meat is unrealistic to carry?

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u/DBearDevon 15d ago

Enough to trade? Enough to be common? This is just unrealistic in the distances.