Unnatural Causes, Ep. 4: Bad Sugar: Bad Sugar

28 minutes, 2008, United States

Produced by California Newsreel with Vital Pictures, Inc.

Unnatural Causes, Ep. 4: Bad Sugar: Bad Sugar

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This episode travels to the O'odham Indian reservations of southern Arizona, which are marked with the dubious distinction of perhaps the highest rates of Type 2 diabetes in the world. There it explores a re-conceptualization of chronic disease as the body's response to "futurelessness" a condition arising from decades of oppression and historical trauma. It looks at the prospects for a new approach that places a community taking control of its own destiny as fundamental to regaining health.

You can license Bad Sugar as a standalone episode or as part of the series Unnatural Causes

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Unnatural Causes, Ep. 4: Bad Sugar: Bad Sugar