Translational research to reduce trans-fat intakes in Northern Québec (Nunavik) Inuit communities: a success story?
Following our results, based on population studies conducted in Greenland and Northern Canada, that Nunavik Inuit were thrice as highly exposed to dietary trans-fat as were Greenlandic Inuit, and that the biological levels found in Nunavik were already associated with deleterious blood lipid profile...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3417698 2023-05-15T14:59:55+02:00 Translational research to reduce trans-fat intakes in Northern Québec (Nunavik) Inuit communities: a success story? Counil, Émilie Gauthier, Marie-Josée Blouin, Valérie Grey, Minnie Angiyou, Eli Kauki, Takralik Dewailly, Éric 2012-07-20 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3417698 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22818719 https://doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v71i0.18833 en eng Co-Action Publishing http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3417698 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22818719 http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v71i0.18833 © 2012 Émilie Counil et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY-NC Special Issue on Knowledge Translation in Arctic Health Research Text 2012 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.3402/ijch.v71i0.18833 2013-09-04T11:24:34Z Following our results, based on population studies conducted in Greenland and Northern Canada, that Nunavik Inuit were thrice as highly exposed to dietary trans-fat as were Greenlandic Inuit, and that the biological levels found in Nunavik were already associated with deleterious blood lipid profiles, we decided to engage in translational activities. Our goal was to support Inuit communities in the practical implementation of a reduction of the trans-fat content of food sold in Nunavik. We carried out a preliminary feasibility study in Kuujjuaq and participated in several meetings. This translational phase involved an Inuk leader, an Inuk student, a southern student, a southern nutritionist and a southern researcher in the framework of a public health project. In the present article, we recount the different phases of the process, from research implementation to results dissemination and institutional commitment to implement a primary prevention program of reduction in trans-fat exposure in Nunavik. This is the occasion to draw broader conclusions on the factors that could either act in favour of or, on the contrary, would likely compromise the implementation of primary prevention interventions dealing with food and nutrition in the Arctic. Finally, we share some reflections on future translational activities dealing with trans-fat as well as other junk food issues. The analytical framework we propose integrates a range of factors, from geo-climatic to socio-economic, ethno-cultural, and even political, that we think should be examined while identifying and building preventive recommendations and strategies related to the Northern diet. Text Arctic Greenland greenlandic inuit Kuujjuaq Nunavik PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Canada Greenland Kuujjuaq ENVELOPE(-68.398,-68.398,58.100,58.100) Nunavik International Journal of Circumpolar Health 71 1 18833 |
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Following our results, based on population studies conducted in Greenland and Northern Canada, that Nunavik Inuit were thrice as highly exposed to dietary trans-fat as were Greenlandic Inuit, and that the biological levels found in Nunavik were already associated with deleterious blood lipid profiles, we decided to engage in translational activities. Our goal was to support Inuit communities in the practical implementation of a reduction of the trans-fat content of food sold in Nunavik. We carried out a preliminary feasibility study in Kuujjuaq and participated in several meetings. This translational phase involved an Inuk leader, an Inuk student, a southern student, a southern nutritionist and a southern researcher in the framework of a public health project. In the present article, we recount the different phases of the process, from research implementation to results dissemination and institutional commitment to implement a primary prevention program of reduction in trans-fat exposure in Nunavik. This is the occasion to draw broader conclusions on the factors that could either act in favour of or, on the contrary, would likely compromise the implementation of primary prevention interventions dealing with food and nutrition in the Arctic. Finally, we share some reflections on future translational activities dealing with trans-fat as well as other junk food issues. The analytical framework we propose integrates a range of factors, from geo-climatic to socio-economic, ethno-cultural, and even political, that we think should be examined while identifying and building preventive recommendations and strategies related to the Northern diet. |
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Translational research to reduce trans-fat intakes in Northern Québec (Nunavik) Inuit communities: a success story? |
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