Food, Culture, and Diabetes in the United States

What do people in the UnitedStates eat? Is it meat andpotatoes? Things have changed in the United States as the population has grown to include many different ethnic and cultur-al groups, and this has resulted in diverse food preferences and eating habits. Asian Indians are one of the fastest growing immigrant groups in the United States. African Americans are numerically the largest minority group, although the Latino population is expected to be larg-er than the African-American population by the middle of the next century.1 Culture is defined as the knowledge, beliefs, customs, and habits a group of