Nutrition

Finds a continued need for program to increase access to healthy foods for residents of isolated northern communities.

Public Health Thesis (M.P.H.)--Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 2012.

Study uses focus group data from two communities to explore gender and intra-household power dynamics as they relate to child-rearing practices and to nutritional decision-making.

Discusses First Nations peoples relationship with lands, waters, plants and animals, and how the erosion of biodiversity has impacted traditional food systems.

Indigenous Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, 2012.

Survey of the Sencoten (Saanich) people and exposure to persistent organic pollutants (POPs) via traditional foods including fish and aquatic resources.

Environment and Resource Studies Thesis (MES)--University of Waterloo, 2014.

Report of Working Towards Excellence Project.

Looks at the food-related risk factors for cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes. Also assesses how industry, governments, and consumers, are managing dietary risks, and proposes actions that could lead to improvements.

Human Nutritional Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Manitoba, 2005. Focuses on improving health and preventing diabetes.

Short article about Rebecca Veevee, a cooking-show guru, who teaches Inuit to cook and eat better.

Looked at circumstances which positively and negatively impact use of fish, shellfish and game in programs for children from birth to age six. Study consisted of environmental scan and literature review, key informant interviews, and four case studies.

Summary of results of environmental scan and literature review, key informant interviews, and case studies conducted as part of the project.

A postcard inscribed: Indian drying meat, Loon Lake, Sask. There is a full-length photo of an Aboriginal man by meat drying structure with tent in background. He is dressed in western clothes.

Describes the incident on the Crooked Lakes Reserves in the lower Qu’Appelle valley in which several First Nations participated in a confrontation of the local Indian Agent over the Department of Indian Affairs’ food rationing policies and their enforcement. Entire issue on one pdf file, scroll to page 41.

Two trappers, with their dogs, in a canoe, bringing in furs that were trapped during the spring.

Comments on the need to research further into the high rate of Indigenous people in Canada developing diabetes including looking at social components. Article located by scrolling to page 324.

Looks at how to provide culturally appropriate care by looking at the content of the curriculum for Nutrition and Dietetics university degrees.

Article describes the development of the online digital repository of wise food practices that is grounded within Indigenous knowledges (IK) and in Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS). Authors stress the need for IDS given the effects it can have on policy creation and the well-being of Indigenous peoples. Done in collaboration with the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux community.

Study included engagement sessions in Treaty Six, Seven and Eight regions, literature review, and examination of primary data from Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities (AHSUNC) Aboriginal Head Start on Reserve (AHSOR) and First Nations and Inuit Child Care Initiative (FNICCI) sites.

Epidemiology and Biostatics Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Western Ontario, 2017.

Discusses such topics as food systems, pillars of food sovereignty, access to food, and protection of food sources and production.

Website contains links to stories and legends, recipes, resources, and strategies related to protecting, conserving and restoring the health and community develeopment of Indigenous food based cultures across Canada.

Contends Native Americans must change their diet, exercise more and show more interest in the natural world.

Looks at the burden of disease, disability, and death being consistently greater in Indigenous than non-Indigenous populations and issues that need to be addressed.

Looks at how gardening can help reduce stress and diet-related health issues, increase physical fitness and help to reclaim traditional values.

Explains the relationship between nutrition and geographic distribution of diseases, increase in obesity rates and diet-related diseases and impact of physical activity on obesity prevention.

Twelve rural case studies from around the world.

Links to videos, which present highlights from indigenous communities in nine countries, aimed at contributing to the evidence base used to make global policies to protect Indigenous Peoples' food resources and promote good health.

Argues that government policies are actually speeding the move away from traditional foods and contributing to the subsequent increase in chronic disease.

Study explores the role of rural women in the farming and gathering of indigenous vegetables, and the impact of the shift to consumption of modern, less nutritious varieties. Research examines benefits of cultivating and consuming traditional vegetables, and identifies barriers to increased production.

Looks at iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in children 0 - 5 years of age and how to manage and prevent it.

Examines the differences between breast fed and bottle fed babies, showing bottle-fed babies had five times more infectious illnesses in their first year of life.

Nutrition and Dietetics Thesis (M.Sc.) -- University of Saskatchewan, 2005.

Advises on infant's nutritional needs during first year of life.

Presents a collection of cases to help academics, researchers, community practitioners and policymakers in the use of knowledge translation.

Examines the risk-benefit analysis of subsistence foods consumed by Indigenous people in Alaska.

A photograph of a teepee structure set up as a fish drying rack. There is a covering on the back half of the teepee and a group of people seated inside. On the back of the photo is written: Salt River in the Northwest.

Summary of results of a study conducted using a representative sample from the Navajo Reservation.

Presents the results collected from seven northwestern Ontario First Nations to study the prevention of risk factors for diabetes.

Findings indicate the main factor concerning lighter skin is ability to synthesize vitamin D to resist rickets.

United Nations recognizes education, health and nutrition, family in poverty, domestic violence and abuse, and substance abuse as areas that need addressing.

Looks at Indigenous women's experiences and challenges of food insecurity.

Study found that dietary counseling and encouraging activity had little effect on reducing weight gain.

Five elders of the Sarcee Reserve (ages 48-63) discuss their understanding of Treaty #7.