Dietary intake of vitamin D in a northern Canadian Dené First Nation community

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

Volumn 72, Issue SUPPL.1, 2013, Pages

  Slater, Joyce ^a   Larcombe, Linda ^a   Green, Chris ^a   Slivinski, Caroline ^a   Singer, Matthew ^a   Denechezhe, Lizette ^b   Whaley, Chris ^a   Nickerson, Peter ^a   Orr, Pamela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b General Delivery   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Diet; First nations; Food security; Indigenous; Nutrition; Vitamin D

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CANADA; DIET; FEMALE; FIRST NATION; FOOD SECURITY; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEASON; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ABORIGINAL; DIET; FIRST NATIONS; FOOD SECURITY; INDIGENOUS; NUTRITION; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CANADA; DIET; DIET SURVEYS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEASONS; VITAMIN D; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881275869     PISSN: 12399736     EISSN: 22423982     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/ijch.v72i0.20723     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Canada's action plan for food security. 2009 [cited 2012 May 17]. Available from: http://www.agr.gc.ca/index_e.php?s1_misb&s2_fsec-seca&page_ action
2. Receveur O, Boulay M, Kuhnlein HV. Decreasing traditional food use affects diet quality for adult Dené/Metis in 16 communities of the Canadian Northwest Territories. J Nutr. 1997;127:2179-86.
3. Kuhnlein HV, Receveur O, Soueida R, Egeland GM. Arctic indigenous peoples experience the nutrition transition with changing dietary patterns and obesity. J Nutr. 2004;134: 1447-53.
4. Lambden J, Receveur O, Marshall J, Kuhnlein HV. Traditional and market food access in Arctic Canada is affected by economic factors. Int J Circumpolar Health. 2006;65:331-40.
5. Willows ND, Veugelers P, Raine K, Kuhle S. Prevalence and sociodemographic risk factors related to household food security in Aboriginal peoples in Canada. Public Health Nutr. 2009;12:1150-6.
6. Food Banks Canada. Hunger Count 2011. A comprehensive report on hunger and food back use in Canada, and recommendations for change. 2011 [cited 2012 May 17]. Available from: http://www.foodbankscanada.ca/getmedia/dc2aa860-4c33-4929-ac36-fb5d40f0b7e7/HungerCount-2011.pdf.aspx?ext_.pdf
7. Egeland CM, Pacey A, Cao Z, Sobol I. Food insecurity among Inuit preschoolers: Nunavut Inuit Child Health Survey, 2007-2008. CMAJ. 2010;182:243-8.
8. Burchi F, Fanzo J, Frison E. The role of food and nutrition system approaches in tackling hidden hunger. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2011;8:358-73.
9. Weiler HA, Leslie WD, Krahn J, Steiman PW, Metge CJ. Canadian Aboriginal women have a higher prevalence of vitamin D deficiency than non-Aboriginal women despite similar dietary vitamin D intakes. J Nutr. 2007;137:461-5.
10. El Hayek J, Egeland G, Weiler H. Vitamin D status of Inuit preschoolers reflects season and vitamin D intake. J Nutr. 2010;140:1839-45.
11. Sharma S, Barr AB, Macdonald HM, Sheehy T, Novotny R, Corriveau A. Vitamin D deficiency and disease risk among aboriginal Arctic populations. Nutr Rev. 2011;69:468-78.
12. Kuhnlein HV, Receveur O. Dietary change and traditional food systems of indigenous peoples. Annu Rev Nutr. 1996;16: 417-42.
13. Whiting SJ, Mackenzie ML. Assessing the changing diet of indigenous peoples. Nutr Rev. 1998;56:248-50.
14. Makariou S, Liberopoulos EN, Elisaf M, Challa A. Novel role of vitamin D in disease: what is new in 2011? Eur J Intern Med. 2011;22:355-62.
15. Mark S, Gray-Donald K, Delvin EE, O'Loughlin J, Paradis G, Levy E, et al. Low vitamin D status in a representative sample of youth from Quebec, Canada. Clin Chem. 2008;54: 1283-9.
16. Poliquin S, Joseph L, Gray-Donald K. Calcium and vitamin D intakes in an adult Canadian population. Can J Diet Pract Res. 2009;70:21-7.
17. Health Council of Canada. The health status of Canada's First Nations, Metis and Inuit Peoples. 2005 [cited 2012 May 17]. Available from: http://healthcouncilcanada.ca.c9.previewyoursite. com/docs/papers/2005/BkgrdHealthyCdnsENG.pdf
18. Webb AR, Kline L, Holick MF. Influence of season and latitude on the cutaneous synthesis of vitamin D3: exposure to winter sunlight in Boston and Edmonton will not promote vitamin D3 synthesis in human skin. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1988;67:373-8.
19. Power EM. Conceptualizing food security or aboriginal people in Canada. Can J Public Health. 2008;99:95-7.
20. Pelly DF. The Old Way North. Following the Oberholtzer-Magee Expedition. Minnesota: Borealis Books; 2008.
21. Larcombe L, Nickerson P, Singer M, Robson R, Dantouze J, McKay L, et al. Housing conditions in 2 Canadian First Nations communities. Int J Circumpolar Health. 2011;70: 141-53.
22. Lodge A, Orr P, Larcombe L, Martin BD. Tuberculosis in a remote Canadian Dené community: the impact of virulence, genetic and environmental factors on epidemiology and control [abstract]. 13th International Congress on Circumpolar Health, Novosibirsk, Russia. 2006;199:168.
23. Larcombe L, Orr P, Lodge A, Brown J, Dembinski I, Milligan L, et al. Functional gene polymorphisms in Canadian Aboriginal populations with high rates of tuberculosis. J Infect Dis. 2008;198:1175-9.
24. First Nations Governance Centre. The First Nations Principles of OCAP. 2010 [cited 2012 May 17]. Available from: http:// www.fnigc.ca/node/2
25. Wu H, Gozdzik A, Barta JL, Wagner D, Cole DE, Vieth R, et al. The development and evaluation of a food frequency questionnaire used in assessing vitamin D intake in a sample of healthy young Canadian adults of diverse ancestry. Nutr Res. 2009;29:255-61.
26. Health Canada. Canadian Nutrient File (CNF). 2010 [cited 2012 Jan 3]. Available from: http://hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/nutrition/ fiche-nutri-data/cnf_downloads-telechargement_fcen-eng.php
27. Institute of Medicine. Dietary reference intakes: calcium vitamin D. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press; 2011.
28. Hassard, T. Understanding biostatistics, Chapter 4. St. Louis, MO: Mosby Year Book; 1991. pp. 83-84.
29. Nakano T, Fediuk K, Kassi N, Kuhnlein HV. Food Use of Dené/Metis Yukon Children. Int J Circumpolar Health. 2005; 64:137-46.
30. Kuhnlein HV, Chan HM. Environment and contaminants in traditional food systems of northern indigenous peoples. Annu Rev Nutr. 2000;20:595-626.
31. Popkin BM. Global changes in diet and activity patterns as drivers of the nutrition transition. Nestle Nutr Workshop Ser Pediatr Program. 2009;63:259-68.
32. Martin DH. "Now we got lots to eat and they're telling us not to eat it": understanding changes to south-east Labrador Inuit relationships to food. Int J Circumpolar Health. 2011;70: 384-95.
33. Schuster RC, Wein EE, Dickson C, Chan HM. Importance of traditional foods for the food security of two First Nations communities in the Yukon, Canada. Int J Circumpolar Health. 2011;70:286-300.
34. Ellestad-Sayed JJ, Levitt MD, Bond JH. Milk intolerance in Manitoba Indian school children. Am J Clin Nutr. 1980;33:2198-201.
35. Duncan IW, Scott EM. Lactose intolerance in Alaskan Indians and Eskimos. Am J Clin Nutr. 1972;25:867-8.
36. Johnson JD, Simoons FJ, Hurwitz R, Grange A, Sinatra FR, Sunshine P, et al. Lactose malabsorption among adult Indians of the great basin and American southwest. Am J Clin Nutr. 1978;31:381-7.
37. Garriguet D. Obesity and the eating habits of the Aboriginal population. Statistics Canada, Catalogue no. 82-003-X Health Reports. 2008 [cited 2012 Jan 6]. Available from: http://statcan. gc.ca/pub/82-003-x/2008001/article/10487-eng.pdf
38. Vatanparast H, Calvo MS, Green TJ, Whiting SJ. Despite mandatory fortification of staple foods, vitamin D intakes of Canadian children and adults are inadequate. J Steroid Biochem Mol Biol. 2010;121:301-3.
39. Larcombe L, Mookherjee N, Slater J, Slivinski C, Singer M, Whaley C, et al. Vitamin D in a northern Canadian First Nation population: dietary intake, serum concentrations and functional gene polymorphisms. PLos One. 2013;7:1-10.
40. Wilson S. Research is ceremony. Indigenous research methods. Winnipeg: Fernwood; 2008.
41. The Conference Board of Canada. Innovation and traditional resource-based economies study. 2002 [cited 2002 Jan 18]. Available from: http://caid.ca/TradEcon2002.pdf
42. Schwalfenberg GK. A review of the critical role of vitamin D in the functioning of the immune system and the clinical implications of vitamin D deficiency. Mol Nutr Food Res. 2010;55:96-108.
43. Kuhnlein HV. Promoting the nutritional and cultural benefits of traditional food systems of Indigenous People. Forum Nutr. 2003;56:222-3.
44. Northern Food Prices Project Steering Committee, Government of Manitoba. Northern food prices project report. 2003 [cited 2012 Feb 1]. Available from: http://www.gov.mb.ca/ana/ food_prices/2003report.html
45. Institute of Medicine. Dietary reference intakes: guiding principles for nutrition labeling and fortification. 2003 [cited 2012 Feb 26]. Available from: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php? record_id_10872
46. Statistics Canada. 2007. Lac Brochet 197A, Manitoba (Code 4623067) (table). Aboriginal Population Profile. 2006 Census. Catalogue no. 92-594-XWE [cited 2012 Mar 1]. Available from: http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/ prof/92-594/details/Page.cfm?Lang_E&Geo1_CSD&Code1-4623067&Geo2_PR&Code2-46&Data_Count&SearchText_ lac%20brochet&SearchType_Begins&SearchPR_01&B1_All& Custom_
47. Government of Canada. Nutrition North Canada. 2011 [cited 2012 Dec 1]. Available from: http://www.nutritionnorthcanada. ca/index-eng.asp
48. Christian Aboriginal Infrastructure Developments. The Nutrition North Canada Program in Canada-The Revised Food Mail Program, 2010. 2011 [cited 2012 Mar 5]. Available from: http://caid.ca/nut_north.html
49. General Assembly of the United Nations. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 1948 [cited 2012 Mar 3]. Available from: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
50. General Assembly of the United Nations. United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. 2007 [cited 2012 Mar 7]. Available from: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/ unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.pdf