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Looks at obesity in a Manitoba First Nation community and the need for interventions to help prevent the high rate of obesity-related illnesses.

Study conducted to investigate the existence of a correlation between higher body mass and decreased lung function.

Compares data for Aboriginal people living off-reserve and non-Aboriginal people aged 19 to 50 from the 2004 Canadian Community Health Survey: Nutrition (cycle 2.2).

Explores the biological predispositions and potential environmental factors that contribute to the high incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Looks at variables of obesity, age, body composition, diet, and blood pressures for urban youth.

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 1989.

Presents changes that have occurred in recent past to lifestyles of Australian Aboriginal women and how health workers are assisting them.

Cross-sectional population-based analysis of Canadian Community Health Survey in 2003 found obesity rates ranged from 6.2% in Vancouver to 47.5% in Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James.

Discusses the diseases that are a result of obesity in the Inuit, including type 2 diabetes, heart disease and cancer.

Nutrition and Metabolism Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Alberta, 2010.

Study's goal was to provide overviews of anthropometric data and the relationship between the data and risk factors for diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Purpose of study was to examine extent of research, representation of populations and geographic areas, methodologies used and associated health outcomes.

Depressive symptoms, beverage intake, fruit and vegetable intake, meal frequency, physical activity, and screen time were self-reported. Sixty-four percent of the 121 youths involved in study were obese. Depressive symptoms were associated with dieting and screen time.

Concludes that there are elevated rates of pancreaticobiliary cancers in Alaska Natives. Possible risk factors that are modifiable are tobacco use and obesity.

Study shows n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids levels measured low in the red blood cells in the study group and the levels may be insufficient to offset the prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors.

Studies children and adolescents from two Cree communities using a dietitian-administered questionnaire to obtain information on foods consumed and activity.

Advocates community-based programs to prevent obesity.

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.

Results of the study document the feasibility of implementing a program for obesity prevention in elementary schools serving Native American communities.

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.

Comments on a study to develop and test a school-based obesity prevention program in Native American schoolchildren in grades three through five.

Looks at group exercise that promotes physical activity.

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

Recommendations are offered to improve optimal outcomes for children and youth in the next generations of Aboriginals living in Canada.

Study subjects who were overweight tended to have impaired performance abilities. Methods to increase physical activity through positive family influences are recommended.

Review discovers just how very little is know about the physical activity behaviours of Native Americans.

Looks at a Canadian pilot study to screen and assess urban ethnic groups for type 2 diabetes and prediabetes and to promote healthy lifestyles.

Highlights the tools outlined in Deborah Stone's book ,Policy Parodox: The Art of Political Decision Making, to demonstrate why school policies should be developed to prevent obesity in schools.

Findings indicate that elevated readings are now similar to Caucasian Canadian populations.

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

Psychology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Dakota, 2005.

Study to predict the prevalence of type 2 diabetes and the associated burden to the health care system in Greenland, due to complications from the disease, which is expected to double by 2014.

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.

Study probes the prevalence of diabetes, pre-diabetes and diabetes risk factors amongst a group of predominantly minority eighth-grade students.

Department of Psychology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Windsor, 1996.

Looks at two protozoan parasites in diarrhoeic patients to better understand the burden of illness and the potential mechanisms of transmission.

Cautions health practitioners assessing childhood obesity that readings from the Body Mass Index (BMI) may lead to incorrect risk assessments.

Discusses a study on high prevalence rates of obesity, particularly among females, in a Woodland Cree Community, and concludes that intervention programs are needed.

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.

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

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