Nutrition

Informative tips to help new parents before and after birth.

Examines high school students' participation in Photovoice project exploring food security in a First Nation community.

Describes program methodology and results. Participants identified three causes of obesity: poor diet, lack of education, and lack of physical activity, and developed preventative action plans.

Comments on a program for Native American schoolchildren, in third to fifth-grade, that promotes increased physical activity and healthy eating behaviours.

Update to 2001. Discusses determinants of health, pregnancy, infants and children, diseases and injuries, physical environment and health services. Related material: The Health and Well-being of Aboriginal People in British Columbia (First Report).

Looks at information and literature to help ascertain the impact of common social determinants on Indigenous peoples' health in Canada and other developed countries.

Reports findings of a nation wide survey, of American Indian adults, to determine the correlation between food choices, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic conditions.

Project examined the cost of the Revised Northern Food Basket in five northern Ontario communities and looked at food prices in relation to overall cost of living.

1 file containing correspondence regarding the storage and production of pemmican made from buffalo from Elk Island National Park and shipped/stored for the Western Development Museum care of The Saskatchewan Creamery, Cold Storage Plant.

Of the three areas studied, the highest concentrations were from the two coastal areas where there is a higher percentage of marine-food based diets.

Plain language summary of key findings from the research project "Reducing the Burden of Diabetes on First Nations People in Ontario: Using Population Level Data to Inform Policy and Practice". Related Material: Full Report.

Explores cultural idea systems related to maternal diet and diabetes.

[Education and Social Work] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Sydney, 2013.

Human Nutrition Thesis (M.S.)--University of British Columbia, 2017.

Archaeology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2003.

Nutrition Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2006.

Describes four wild berries traditionally consumed by Native American and First Nations communities and the health benefits derived from their consumption.

Looks at vitamin intoxication as a possible cause to Arctic hysteria.

Discussion of the Sandy Lake School diabetes prevention program for Ojibway Cree children in the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades.

Comments on a program aimed at addressing one aspect of food insecurity in low-income families.

Examines decreased bone quality and osteoporosis due to their traditional seafood based diet.

Discusses "policy research" as tool to improve the well-being of the subjects. Based within context of the "nutritional experiments" on malnourished Aboriginal children between 1942 and 1952.

Reports on a study conducted on residents of the Akwesasne Reservation to check the association between consumption of local fish, residential exposure, body burdens of PCBs and liver enzyme induction.

A postcard inscribed: Indian woman making bannock, Loon Lake, Saskatchewan. A photograph of an Aboriginal woman squatted in a camp surrounded by pots and pans. Two frying pans of bannock are propped up next to a fire that has a pot on it.

Survey findings revealed that American respondents perceive themselves as healthier, consuming more of their food intake as subsistence protein.

Recreation, Physical and Health Education Thesis (M.Sc.)--Dalhousie University, 1997.

Looks at household structure and income, parental education, food insecurity, language, cultural activities and parental residential school attendance as factors predicting obesity.

Analysis of feces for dietary contents and endoparasitic infection which was radiocarbon dated to around 300 B.C.

Study of two Beothuk individuals found a possible gen flow, or a common ancestral link, between Beothuck, who became extinct in the 1820s, and the current Mikmaq population. Data from one individual were also found to not support the belief that the Beothuk were of European-Native American descent.

Community Health Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Manitoba, 2003.

Home Economics Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Arizona, 1944.

Dietetics and Human Nutrition Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2010.

Health Studies and Gerontology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Waterloo, 2013.

Looks at the link between oral health, diet, and socioeconomic risk factors.

Uses data from the Canadian Community Health Survey, Cycle 2.2. Nutrition (CCHS 2.2) to compare characteristics of off-reserve Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal households.

Study shows that anemia is a major health problem that requires further investigation.

Studies food security in Greenland by means of surveys and interviews.

Findings from study suggests a higher prevalence of milk intolerance in the Sami population.

Examine the findings and results of a review to identify commonalities between obesity prevention and oral health interventions relevant to Native American children, their families, and their communities.

Discusses the success of translating diabetes prevention research findings into clinical practice in remote and disadvantaged areas.

Looks at results from research project, conducted in Ontario, focusing on social determinants of health impacting the health of Aboriginal children.

Looks at the correlation between the emergence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in young people and the decrease in physical activity and balanced nutrition.

Looks at factors which contribute to educational gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students: history, political organization, socio-economic status, and health.

Chronicle of the Congress held July 11-16, 2009 focusing on key health themes.

Six programs are discussed: Take a Kid Trapping & Harvesting; Kugluktuk High School, School Cooking Club; Harvester Support Program; Project Nunavut and the Country Food Market; Kuujjuaq Greenhouse Project; and Personal Gardening. Includes description, date program began, benefits and challenges for each initiative.

Community Health and Epidemiology Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2016.

Comments on the health and socioeconomic disparities faced by First Nations children.

Looks at the First Nations Wholistic Policy and Planning Model, an action plan for communities across Canada. Recommendations are provided.