First Nations Health Better When Traditional Foods Consumed
By 250 News
Thursday, March 03, 2011 12:08 PM
Prince George, B.C.- The first results are in on the UNBC led study into the nutritional and environmental factors which affect the health and well-being of BC’s First Nations communities.
The results show that although First Nations communities tend to be at higher risk of obesity and related illnesses, the risks are reduced when traditional foods are consumed.
The problem is in accessing those traditional foods.
The research was led by by BC Leadership Chair in Aboriginal Environmental Health and UNBC professor Laurie Chan . He says participants report a variety of reasons why there is difficulty in accessing traditional foods including: governmental restrictions, forestry, hydro installations, and mining. Nearly seventy-five percent of participants also identified global warming as being a hindering factor.
Chan says chemical contamination of foods by environmental contaminants was not found to be overly significant, and when it comes to water quality “We found that most of the participating communities have a steady supply of good drinking water,” says Dr. Chan. “Four communities reported boil water advisories, but most had water treatment facilities available and in use.”
The study was conducted with full participation of twenty-one BC First Nations communities and locally recruited community research assistants collected all the data and samples.
The BC Regional Report represents the first part of the ten-year First Nations Food, Nutrition, and Environmental Study which will involve 100 communities across the country.
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Posted by: uyterlindekel on March 3 2011 3:05 PM
Moose, Deer and Elk would be low in fat and no growth hormones in it.
Berries are high in vitamins
Fish is full of healthy minerals and Omega - 3, and the good fat.
Seems like a no brainer to come up with these results.
I think all those advertisers have been lying to us about, "its good for you". i think the initial intentions of the company are geniuine, but then they have to add all these chemicals to perserve the food so that it can sit on the shelves for 12 months. Have you looked at the expiry date on some of the food products. It likely will not harm you if you have a bite of it, but what happens if your eating it three times a day, every day, its gotta start accumulating in our bodies. It can't be good for us.