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Indigenous Café Combats Diabetes

In the heart of the Tohono O’odham Reservation, where residents have the highest rate of Type 2 Diabetes in the world, Loretta Oden and a team of Tohono O’odham cooks gather in the kitchen of the Desert Rain Café.

(5/12/2009)

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