Nutrition

Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats analysis in Fort Albany, Ontario identified 32 themes which could then be transformed into 12 strategies.

Study shows that rapid assessment of food insecurity is feasible among Inuit adults and children.

Public Health - Epidemiology Thesis (M.P.H.)--University of Washington, 2014.

Discusses how cultural biases affected interpretations and usage of words such as "starving" in fur-trade terminology.

Explores the link between food sources and methylmercury contamination.

Main cohort consisted of 443 students in grades 6-8 in seven First Nations communities. Results showed poor intakes of vegetables, fruit and related nutrients and high intakes of "other foods". Prevalence rates of overweight and obesity exceeded those of the general population.

Comparative study findings indicate that regular Vitamin A supplements during pregnancy can play a role in improving infant health development.

Tests raw and cooked foods most commonly eaten in a seal hunting camp.

Dietetics and Human Nutrition Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2000.

Concludes that fortification or supplementation of vitamin D is necessary for most of the people living in the northern latitudes during the winter season.

Nutritional Sciences Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2014.

Study suggest that measurement standards employed for European descended populations should not be used for Inuits and Amerindians.

Community Health Sciences Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Manitoba, 1999.

Looks at to what extent vitamin D levels and metabolism play in susceptibility/resistance to tuberculosis among Dene peoples.

Nutritional Science Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 2009.

Study results indicate that vitamin D deficiency in Greenland increases with dietary transition to a non-traditional diet.

Study investigated the prevalence of, and risk factors (gender, age, vitamin D intake, and socioeconomic status) for low vitamin D in 16 Arctic communities.

Looks at vitamin D deficiency in Canadian children and adults, especially among Aboriginal people living in Arctic regions.

Focuses on how extreme climate-related conditions in 2006 interacted with the food system to affect food security for traditional foods.

Article describes a comprehensive healthy lifestyle program consisting of fitness, nutrition and activity initiatives which contributed to improved health outcome.

Two community members make it their mission to help slim down the town people in episode 31 of a stop-motion animation series. Duration: 21:59.

Overview of topics discussed at the Nutrition Networks 1995 Conference held in Broome.

Statistics from various sources gathered to assist tribes in developing public health programs and priorities.

[Cross-Cultural Studies]Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2010.

Outlines the results of a study done comparing urban and on-reserve health.

Article presents the evolution in a baby's recommended nutritional needs as they progress through various developmental stages.

Reviews the current information on mortality, diseases, and risk factor exposure.

Examines why food literacy matters, the state of food literacy in Canada, current efforts to develop food literacy, and recommends strategies to further improve Canadian household attitudes, skills, and knowledge about food.

Recommendations include: expansion of information on food costs and their drivers, support for consumption of traditional foods, improving Nutrition North Canada subsidy, and replacement of social assistance with basic income administered through the tax system.

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Reviews examples of culturally valued food plants and identifies factors that have resulted in decreased use and loss of cultural knowledge about them over the past 150 years.

Research project documented regional approaches to traditional food production and consumption to improve community health.

Presents food lists from the wild and arranged by nutritional values developed by Aboriginal health workers.

A set of 44 photos of a caribou project at Wollaston Lake that involved students in preparing and cooking caribou meat, making dry meat, drying the hides, and taking part in follow-up activities in the classroom.

Suggests women may be more susceptible to spirit possession cults due to nutritional deficiencies.

Environment and Geography Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2017.

Describes how traditional Australian, 'bush foods' are often far more nutritious than foods introduced by European settlers.

Author explore issues surrounding the improvement of Indigenous food security and food sovereignty, noting the traditional and non-traditional market-based food-based practices of Indigenous peoples are simultaneously structured by Indigenous and liberal governmental logics.

Promotional article for an informal workshop on Aboriginal bush foods that was set to take place in November 1983 at Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

Describes program in East Arnhem, Northern Territory that provides opportunities for young people to learn about food shopping, food hygiene, cooking skills and be physically active at the same time.

Discusses how farmers and gardeners define food sovereignty and how the concept has been put into practice to attain the goals of promoting health and traditional culture.