Paleolithic nutrition: a consideration of its nature and current implications

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/25268/0000711.pdf

Energy source, protein metabolism, and hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies

Human health implications of environmental contaminants in Arctic Canada: A review

Fluorosis prevalence has increased in North America since the 1930's-1940's. It may also have increased since 1970, though the evidence for that is less clear. Continued monitoring will help determine whether increased fluorosis prevalence in children in the United States is a cohort effect from the 1970's. This review considers the evidence for an increase in fluoride ingestion from all sources since the 1970's. If an increase has occurred, the most likely sources are fluoride dietary supplements, inadvertent swallowing of fluoride toothpastes, and increased fluoride in food and beverages. For adults, there is no evidence from dietary surveys to show that fluoride intake has increased over the last generation. Dietary surveys for children aged six months to two years are similarly inconclusive, though the great variation in fluoride content of various infant foods might be obscuring real effects. The data on fluoride intake by children from food and beverages, infant foods included, are not strong enough...

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The Changing Patterns of Systemic Fluoride Intake

The transmission of 93 items of women's indigenous knowledge and bush skills was studied in two subarctic Omushkego (West Main) Cree Indian communities, Moose Factory and Peawanuck, Ontario, Canada. About half of all bush skills were still being transmitted at the “hands-on” learning stage. Some skills such as setting snares and fishnets, beadwork, smoking geese, and tanning moose and caribou hides were transmitted well. Many skills no longer essential for livelihoods, such as some fur preparation skills and food preservation techniques, were not. Loss of certain skills and incomplete transmission of others (a lower level of mastery than in older generations) were attributable to changes in the educational environment, diminished time available in the bush, problems related to learning bush skills at later ages, and changes in value systems. These factors seemed to impair the traditional mode of education based on participant observation and apprenticeship in the bush, which provided the essential self-disciplining educational environment. Policy measures to counteract these trends may include the institution of a hunters' income security program to provide incentives for family units to go on the land, rather than all-male hunting parties.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/4603236.pdf

Transmission of indigenous knowledge and bush skills among the Western James Bay Cree women of subarctic Canada

(1978). Eastern James Bay Cree Indians: Changing patterns of wild food use and nutrition. Ecology of Food and Nutrition: Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 155-172.

Eastern James Bay Cree Indians: Changing patterns of wild food use and nutrition

Potential effect of food processing on the fluoride content of infant foods.

There are strong indications that the caffeine intake of Canadian Northern Indigenous People is very substantial. Tea is the main contributor. Preliminary calculations show that daily ingestion of caffeine among these groups is much higher than ingestion levels known to have adverse medical and behavioral effects. of particular concern is the interaction of caffeine and carbohydrate metabolism, already known to be under stress due to increases in sugar and carbohydrate intake. Symptoms characteristic of unduly high intake of caffeine are also found to a large extent in hypoglycemia, mercury intoxication, and various nutritional deficiencies. There is a need for a substantial research effort to further delineate the caffeine problem and to develop alternate beverages containing reduced amounts of caffeine.

Caffeine Intake and Potential Effect on Health of a Segment of Northern Canadian Indigenous People

(1979). Commentary: Potential for and implications of Thiamine deficiency in northern Canadian Indian populations affected by mercury contamination. Ecology of Food and Nutrition: Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 11-20.

Commentary: Potential for and implications of Thiamine deficiency in northern Canadian Indian populations affected by mercury contamination

Importance of interactions between nutrients and environmental contaminants as a factor in experimental design in toxicological research: with emphasis on selenium and ascorbic acid

Carol Spindell Farkas

Papers

Eastern James Bay Cree Indians: Changing patterns of wild food use and nutrition

Potential effect of food processing on the fluoride content of infant foods.

Caffeine Intake and Potential Effect on Health of a Segment of Northern Canadian Indigenous People

Commentary: Potential for and implications of Thiamine deficiency in northern Canadian Indian populations affected by mercury contamination

Importance of interactions between nutrients and environmental contaminants as a factor in experimental design in toxicological research: with emphasis on selenium and ascorbic acid