A recent study by Burgess et al [26] showed that caring for country was associated with significantly more frequent physical activity, better diet, lower body mass index, less abdominal obesity, lower systolic blood pressure, less diabetes, non-elevated albumin-creatinine ratio, higher high density cholesterol lipoprotein cholesterol level, lower cardiovascular risk and reduced mortality in Indigenous Australians. This evidence concerns the gene ALB and Abdominal obesity.