Benefits of Nutrition: Decolonizing your diet
Wyatt Grey
Santa Clara Pueblo
Santa Clara Pueblo
Research Log #1
"Sharing one Skin"
-Jeannette Armstrong
This article is about the Okanagan people and what "Identity" means to them. Also how through community and language you can know oneself and what you stand for. Their language "teaches us that this self requires a great quietness before our other parts can become conscious of it." This quote talks about how their language means and requires deeper thoughts than english. Lastly, this article's main topic is identity and how inseparable they are to the land, community, and individual self is.
"How place names impact the way we see Landscape"
-B.Toastie
This article talks about what names really mean and what their true understandings are. Also it talks about how we live in a world named after colonizers. It talks about how we keep repeating the names of colonizers and it keeps the trauma fresh. When you rename an indigenous place you are evoking its reconnection. Lastlt, when a sacred name persists it can be the remedy of healing.
"And then I went to School"
-Joe Suina
This article is about how Indian Pueblo life started to change and what the whiteman ways did. It talks about the early 1950s and how simple pueblo life used to be. When the kids start school that is when they start to get introduced into the white man's ways and what they think is right. After the sixth grade the kids had to leave their village of Coachiti for their education. At some point they become ashamed of who they are and they don't like their cultural ways any more.
This article tells us about the start of nutrition and who came up with the ideas that we have today. Also how nutrition really started from no-where, it was just ideas about food. The importance of nutrition is also told to us and what foods have different vitamins and minerals. Atwater basically came up with the ideas of nutrition and he told us the different effects of nutrition. Nutrition has come very far from what it was, to what it is today.
It mainly talks about the beginning of nutrition science and how young modern nutrition is. Scientists focused on malnutrition in infants and child diseases. Other scientists focused on the primary role of calorie insufficiency and believed that protein enriched formulas and food should not replace main sustenances in infants. Supplements started to be popular around the 1970s. Scientists started to shift to ways to deal with chronic diseases. A main note of today is the diversity of health outcomes and diet patterns.
This video talks about nutrients and what they do and what they do and how they are broken down in our bodies. It tells us that there is a lot more that meets the eye when it comes to nutrition. Also it tells us that William Prout thought of the idea of macronutrients in 1827. When you have a basic understanding of what nutrition it helps you decide what to eat and what not to eat. Lastly, the quality of the food that we eat is extremely important.
This video talks about how the foods that we eat are not very healthy. Also how foods now are ultra processed and they're not nutrient densed. A lot of the foods that we eat are the reason why there is an obesity epidemic going on. Some companies are trying to find different solutions to these foods, such as different alternatives to sugars and other ingredients. Food is a big part of our lives and without it we cannot live, but what we can do is change what we eat.
This article talks about hunger and how there are different types of hunger. It tells us how hunger is starting to become an even bigger problem in the world. There are different types of malnutrition one is when someone is undernutrition, that means they are not getting the nutrients that their body needs. The other one is overnutrition, and they are getting too much nutrients that their body can handle. In 2023 alone between 717 and 757 million people faced hunger, that is one out of 11 people in the world.
This article talks about how Africa and how the food security is getting bad. Also how there are many factors to this reason. Like high inflation, low crop productivity, gender inequality, and more. It also talks about different strategies to solve these problems. Like promoting investment in agricultural infrastructure and extensive services and addressing gender inequality in agriculture.
This Netflix documentary talks, about how people living in Okinawa, Sardina, Ikaria, Nicoya, and Loma Linda. They have achieved longevity through living in environments where natural movement and social connection. Also it talks about the different foods from their respective places. This is an interesting documentary to learn about how different cultures are with food and it is to them. Lastly, how they all eat different foods, but they all exercise their own ways; either they walk or run.
This video talks about how Japan is very different from the U.S. in many ways. Japan is a lot healthier than the U.S. by a lot, but I do wish that the U.S. did similar things. Japanese people are smart for doing these ideas to better their health. Also I think that they just want better overall lives. Lastly, all of these factors give Japanese people better health and better lives.
My first action plan was on Friday, November 14th 2025. I gave a short presentation to my 7th period football class about decolonizing their diets. I did this because football and sports are interconnected with nutrition. In order to be a good athlete you need to train hard and practice hard, but that is only half of being a good athlete. You should know what you are putting into your body and what it is doing to help you. At the end of my presentation I asked them a question “Do you feel that you would benefit from changing your food choices from an Americanized diet to more natural and whole foods.”
My second Action Plan happened on Saturday February 21st 2026. It was in California on the Soboba Reservation. My teammates and I from the Indigenous Bowl helped out and taught kids with disabilities football drills and I educated them on what kinds of foods are ideal for an athlete. I did this because I wanted to tell other athletes outside of New Mexico what they are putting into their bodies is important. Also that if they want to collegiately they really need to start to pay attention to what they are eating. Not only that, but it’s important to give and express the knowledge that I have gained to others so that they know of these ideas.
Article one: Armstrong, Jeannette. 1966 "Sharing One Skin" The Okanagan community. P.P. 460-470 in Jerry Mander and Edward Goldsmith (eds.), The case Against the Global Economy, San Francisco, CA: Sier club books.
Article two: B, Toastie. Qaster (2024, January 24). How place names impact the way we see landscapes. High country News. https://www.han.org/issues/54-51 people-places-how-place-names-impact-the-way-see-landscapes/
Article three: Suina, Joseph H."And then I went to school". Rethinking schools, 22 June 2021, rethinking schools.org/articles/and-then-i-went-to-school/. Accessed 08 September 2025
Is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of New Mexico
Article four: USDA ARS. www.arsudsa.gov/oc/timeline/nutrition
Article five: “History of Modern Nutrition science-implications for current Research, Dietary Guidelines, and food policy.” BMJ, June 2018, p.k2392.https://doi.org/10.1136/buj.k2392.
Article six: “Fundamentals of Nutrition and the History of Nutrition.” Youtube, 15 Jan. 2016, www.youtube .com/watch?v=x4-VUJvT9bw.
Article seven: CBS News. (2024, September 7). Ultra Processed: How food tech consumed the American diet | CBS reports [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r03hB_xk5xs\
Article eight: United Nations. (n.d.-b). Food | United Nations. https://www.un.org/en/global-issues/food
Article nine: Wudil, A. H., Usman, M., Rosak-Szyrocka, J., Pilař, L., & Boye, M. (2022). Reversing years for global Food Security: A review of the food security situation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(22), 14836. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192214836
Article ten: Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones. Directed by Clay Jeter, MakeMake Entertainment, 2023. Netflix, www.netflix.com/title/81214929.
Article eleven: Joseph Everett - WIL. (2025, June 23). How Japan escaped Obesity while America got Fat [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH6Wq4KWu7M
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