Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

homestead - Re: [Homestead] Another book for Bev

homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Homestead mailing list

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Rob <becida AT comcast.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Another book for Bev
  • Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:46:48 -0800

At 12/21/2008 09:42 PM,Rob wrote:
At 12/21/2008 07:41 PM,Lynda wrote:
>What about an ethnic diet? I know that in the 4 Corners the docs have found
>that folks with diabetes that return to a lamb, corn, bean and squash based
>diet and got rid of the wheat, beef and sugar diet stopped needing insulin
>and lost a lot of weight.
>
>Of course, that could present a problem if one is a total American (mutt
><g>) and doesn't lean toward any particular limb on their family tree.
>
>Lynda

Getting away from processed food.... Was lamb/sheep a part of the
diet before the Europeans came?

I looked it up:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep

In the Americas
See also: Agricultural history of the United States

Sheep grazing on the south lawn of the White House c. 1918No ovine species native to the Americas has ever been domesticated, despite being closer genetically to domestic sheep than many Asian and European species. The first domestic sheep in North America—most likely of the Churra breed—arrived with Christopher Columbus' second voyage in 1493.[3][6] The next transatlantic shipment to arrive was with Hernán Cortés in 1519, landing in Mexico.[3] No export of wool or animals is known to have occurred from these populations, but flocks did disseminate throughout what is now Mexico and the Southwest United States with Spanish colonists.[6] Churras were also introduced to the Navajo tribe of Native Americans, and became a key part of their livelihood and culture. The modern presence of the Navajo-Churro breed is a result of this heritage.[16]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Looking a little further I found that it was 1598 when European settlers arrived in northern NM.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Fe,_New_Mexico

IMO a couple-three hundred years of a diet that worked is a long time.





Rob
becida AT comcast.net




Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page