What's in your freezer? Traditional food use and food security in two Yukon First Nations communities.
Traditional foods are central to the well-being of Aboriginal communities however there is a trend of decreasing traditional food use which can pose health risks when the replacement foods are low in nutrients and high in carbohydrates and saturated fats. This study collected information on the freq...
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ftunbcolumbiadc:oai:unbc.arcabc.ca:unbc_16034 2023-10-29T02:36:22+01:00 What's in your freezer? Traditional food use and food security in two Yukon First Nations communities. Schuster, Roseanne C. (Author) Chan, Laurie (Thesis advisor) University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution) 2010 electronic Number of pages in document: 123 https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc:16034/datastream/PDF/download https://unbc.arcabc.ca/islandora/object/unbc%3A16034 https://doi.org/10.24124/2010/bpgub641 English eng University of Northern British Columbia Copyright retained by the author. http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Indians of North America -- Food -- Yukon Vuntut Gwich'in Indians -- Nutrition -- Yukon -- Old Crow Tlingit Indians -- Nutrition -- Yukon -- Teslin Food security -- Yukon Nutrition -- Evaluation Caribou -- Mercury content -- Yukon Food habits -- Yukon TX360.C32 Y876 2009 Text thesis 2010 ftunbcolumbiadc https://doi.org/10.24124/2010/bpgub641 2023-10-01T17:40:01Z Traditional foods are central to the well-being of Aboriginal communities however there is a trend of decreasing traditional food use which can pose health risks when the replacement foods are low in nutrients and high in carbohydrates and saturated fats. This study collected information on the frequency and quantity of traditional food consumption as well the level of food security of 29 adults in the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation community of Old Crow and 33 adults in the Tlingit community of Teslin, both of Yukon, Canada. In each community traditional foods were shown to be an important part of the diet, although challenges in access to and availability of foods were reported. Chemical contamination is another challenge in the context of food security. There is limited data on mercury levels in caribou, a principal food source for the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation. Seventy-five caribou muscle, 63 kidney and 3 liver samples were analyzed for total mercury and combined with reported dietary information to calculate estimated total mercury and methylmercury exposure. Nutrient intake was calculated by combining data from the Canada Nutrient File and supplemented by Kuhnlein et al. (2006) and Hidiroglou et al., (2008) with the collected dietary information. Caribou issues were found to contribute high levels of important nutrients to the diet and pose minimal health risk from mercury exposure. The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1637023 Thesis First Nations Gwitchin Old Crow Teslin tlingit Yukon UNBC's Digital Institutional Repository (University of Northern British Columbia) |
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Indians of North America -- Food -- Yukon Vuntut Gwich'in Indians -- Nutrition -- Yukon -- Old Crow Tlingit Indians -- Nutrition -- Yukon -- Teslin Food security -- Yukon Nutrition -- Evaluation Caribou -- Mercury content -- Yukon Food habits -- Yukon TX360.C32 Y876 2009 |
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Indians of North America -- Food -- Yukon Vuntut Gwich'in Indians -- Nutrition -- Yukon -- Old Crow Tlingit Indians -- Nutrition -- Yukon -- Teslin Food security -- Yukon Nutrition -- Evaluation Caribou -- Mercury content -- Yukon Food habits -- Yukon TX360.C32 Y876 2009 What's in your freezer? Traditional food use and food security in two Yukon First Nations communities. |
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Indians of North America -- Food -- Yukon Vuntut Gwich'in Indians -- Nutrition -- Yukon -- Old Crow Tlingit Indians -- Nutrition -- Yukon -- Teslin Food security -- Yukon Nutrition -- Evaluation Caribou -- Mercury content -- Yukon Food habits -- Yukon TX360.C32 Y876 2009 |
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Traditional foods are central to the well-being of Aboriginal communities however there is a trend of decreasing traditional food use which can pose health risks when the replacement foods are low in nutrients and high in carbohydrates and saturated fats. This study collected information on the frequency and quantity of traditional food consumption as well the level of food security of 29 adults in the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation community of Old Crow and 33 adults in the Tlingit community of Teslin, both of Yukon, Canada. In each community traditional foods were shown to be an important part of the diet, although challenges in access to and availability of foods were reported. Chemical contamination is another challenge in the context of food security. There is limited data on mercury levels in caribou, a principal food source for the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation. Seventy-five caribou muscle, 63 kidney and 3 liver samples were analyzed for total mercury and combined with reported dietary information to calculate estimated total mercury and methylmercury exposure. Nutrient intake was calculated by combining data from the Canada Nutrient File and supplemented by Kuhnlein et al. (2006) and Hidiroglou et al., (2008) with the collected dietary information. Caribou issues were found to contribute high levels of important nutrients to the diet and pose minimal health risk from mercury exposure. The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b1637023 |
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Schuster, Roseanne C. (Author) Chan, Laurie (Thesis advisor) University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution) |
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What's in your freezer? Traditional food use and food security in two Yukon First Nations communities. |
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What's in your freezer? Traditional food use and food security in two Yukon First Nations communities. |
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What's in your freezer? Traditional food use and food security in two Yukon First Nations communities. |
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What's in your freezer? Traditional food use and food security in two Yukon First Nations communities. |
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What's in your freezer? Traditional food use and food security in two Yukon First Nations communities. |
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what's in your freezer? traditional food use and food security in two yukon first nations communities. |
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First Nations Gwitchin Old Crow Teslin tlingit Yukon |
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First Nations Gwitchin Old Crow Teslin tlingit Yukon |
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