Posted: Sunday, 03 June 2012 11:16PM
Website offers Native Americans diabetes forums
LAWRENCE, Kan. - Two Native American professors have
launched a website designed to help other Native Americans deal
with Type 2 diabetes.
The website, WellboundStorytellers.com, was launched two weeks
ago by Rhonda Levaldo, a media instructor at Haskell Indian Nations
University in Lawrence, and Teresa Trumbly Lamsam, a visiting
professor at the University of Kansas.
Soon after it launched, Native Americans around the country were
sharing personal stories about their health troubles and successes.
Shortly thereafter, bloggers were accepted to the site.
The Kansas City Star reports (http://bit.ly/LZXbI9 ) that on
virtually every health measure, Native Americans and Pacific
Islanders rank at or next to the bottom among all races.
Lamsam and Levaldo say Type 2 diabetes is especially
devastating, and both have several relatives who have died from the
disease.
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