Preventing Obesity in Canada’s Aboriginal Children: Not Just a Matter of Eating Right and Getting Active

Obesity is a growing issue for all children. Many experts say that preventing obesity is largely a matter of eating the right foods and getting enough physical activity. This advice doesn’t recognize the fact that First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children face unique barriers to growing up healthy an...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:International Indigenous Policy Journal
Main Author: Ferris, Melanie A
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: Scholarship@Western 2011
Subjects:
Childhood obesity
prevention
Aboriginal children
First Nations
Inuit
Métis
wholistic
nutrition
physical activity
Medicine Wheel
education
control
residential schools
Aboriginal research
Community Health
Community Health and Preventive Medicine
Diseases
Maternal and Child Health
Other Mental and Social Health
Public Health Education and Promotion
inuit
Online Access:https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/iipj/vol2/iss1/2
https://doi.org/10.18584/iipj.2011.2.1.2
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Summary:Obesity is a growing issue for all children. Many experts say that preventing obesity is largely a matter of eating the right foods and getting enough physical activity. This advice doesn’t recognize the fact that First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children face unique barriers to growing up healthy and strong simply because of their identity. This paper discusses how the social determinants of health impact the ability of Aboriginal children to grow up free of obesity. The paper highlights results from a community-based research project conducted amongst Aboriginal parents and service providers in Ontario who wish to prevent obesity amongst their own young children and clients. Research was carried out over two years to help develop a “toolkit” and training program to help service provides increase efforts to prevent obesity amongst First Nations, Inuit, and Métis children from the ages of 2 to 6 in Ontario.

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