A Nebraska chef transformed his life by eating an Indigenous diet. Now hes spreading the word. [Video]

LINCOLN, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) – Pricking his finger with a small needle, Anthony Warrior squeezed a drop of blood onto the test strip. As he saw the number illuminate, the then-40-year-old Absentee Shawnee citizen and Muskogee descendant knew his days of bad eating had caught up with him.

With his weight nearing 500 pounds and his blood sugar dangerously high, Warrior was facing a future of possible blindness, kidney failure and limb amputation – all complications of unchecked diabetes.

If he didn’t address his eating habits and weight, he’d eventually be in a wheelchair or a casket.

That moment was the beginning of a dramatic change for Warrior, now 49, and it eventually led him to try to change others’ lives for the better.

Warrior, who lives near the Santee Dakota (Sioux) reservation and is one of the region’s best Indigenous chefs, teamed with the Santee branch of the …