Ethnicity, Ethnic Food And Diabetes Mellitus Type-II

Abstract

Ethnicity is the identity of an individual with respect to its culture, religion, ancestral pattern, norms and values, which by a person can give its identification. People of the same ethnicity lives together, becomes their group. The similarities or differences of people in their cultures can be languages, food, rituals, nationality, norms, and values that identify their ethnicity. In ethnic groups, Diabetes Mellitus Type-II is becoming very common. Diabetes type-II is a global disease nowadays, but in some ethnic groups, it is at higher risk, like in Africans, Hispanics and Native Americans. Some ethnic group have their specific ethnic foods. For this, the descriptive methodology has been used for the collection of data, including methods of an in-depth interview. From this above discussion, it has been concluded that some ethnic groups are at high risk of diabetes type 2, and some ethnic foods, which include those ingredients which are the risk factors of diabetes type II, should not be taken to reduce the risk of Diabetes type-II.