Hunger was never absent": How residential school diets shaped current patterns of diabetes among Indigenous peoples in Canada

CMAJ

Volumn 189, Issue 32, 2017, Pages E1043-E1045

  Mosby, Ian ^a   Galloway, Tracey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALORIC RESTRICTION; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD NUTRITION; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUNGER; HYPERTENSION; INDIGENT; MALNUTRITION; METABOLIC DISORDER; OBESITY; RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL; SHORT SURVEY; STARVATION; STUNTING;

EID: 85027305812     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.170448     Document Type: Article

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