"Forget the South Beach Diet. American Indian foods are good for your health and your cultural identity.
As a child, Terrol Dew Johnson expected to lose a leg one day. It was what happened to the elders. They got "bad sugar." They became sleepy, their circulation slowed and inevitably they underwent amputations. It had happened to his grandmother, and Johnson assumed it was something that occurred later in life.
Not that the teachers on his reservation in Arizona...