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Transcript: Marjorie Mau, M.D.

The importance of learning how traditional cultural practices, such as diet choices, can lead to medical complications

[Mau:]
I mean I see a lot of diabetic patients, and I see a lot of thyroid patients, and they’re affected by a lot of things that they eat, some of the things that you can’t buy in a store, and because a lot of people on Molokai can subsistence live, so they hunt, and they fish, and it’s so important to know what parts they're eating.