Vitamins A, D, and E in Canadian Arctic traditional food and adult diets

Kuhnlein, Harriet V.; Barthet, Véronique J.; Farren, A.; Falahi, Ebrahim; Leggee, Donna; Receveur, Olivier; Berti, Peter R.

doi:10.1016/j.jfca.2005.02.007

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“…These populations were analysed together, as they have similar diets (Arctic traditional foods and limited variety in purchased foods), and there were insufficient data to analyse pregnant and lactating groups separately. We used this strategy in earlier analyses on vitamin intakes of Arctic indigenous adults (21,30). This is the first time it is applied to pregnant and lactating women.…”

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Dietary assessment of Indigenous Canadian Arctic women with a focus on pregnancy and lactation

Berti¹,

Soueida²,

Kuhnlein³

2008

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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Objectives. To assess the diet of Indigenous women, including pregnant and lactating women, in the Canadian Arctic in terms of dietary adequacy, and to assess the contribution of traditional food to the diet. Study design. Population-based cross-sectional design, using 4-hour dietary recalls. Methods. Twenty-four hour quantitative dietary recalls were collected in 47 communities in 5 surveys between 1987 and 1999, including non-pregnant and non-lactating women (n=1300), pregnant women (n=74) and lactating women (n=117). Unique methods of assessment were undertaken using Software for Intake Distribution Assessment (SIDE) partitioned intra-and interindividual variance that allowed the estimation of the distribution of usual daily nutrient intakes for comparison to North American dietary reference intakes. Results. Contributions of traditional Arctic food to energy intakes varied and the prevalence of inadequacies were generally high for magnesium, vitamin A, folate, vitamin C and vitamin E. Supplement use was infrequent. Many women met their needs for iron, and some exceeded the recommended upper limit for iron with food alone. Average intakes of manganese and vitamin D met recommended levels, but calcium did not. Conclusions. These results are the only data to date reporting an assessment of the dietary intakes of pregnant and lactating Canadian Arctic Indigenous women. Special attention is required for inadequacies of magnesium, zinc, calcium, folate, and vitamins E, A and C; and for use of supplements during pregnancy. Most pregnant and lactating women met iron needs without supplements.

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“…There may be moderate public health concern for low intakes of vitamins A, C, E and folate. Low intakes of vitamins A, C and E could be addressed through increased intake of select, locally available traditional foods (16,21,38) and better use of better quality market foods.…”

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Dietary assessment of Indigenous Canadian Arctic women with a focus on pregnancy and lactation

Berti¹,

Soueida²,

Kuhnlein³

2008

International Journal of Circumpolar Health

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“…Our research on Arctic food systems has necessarily included food composition and interviews on food use and dietary recalls, and has revealed unique nutrient qualities in TF [14][15][16][17] and dietary patterns 5,18 . With the current dietary reference intakes (DRIs) it is now possible to complete dietary data analysis and report nutrient adequacy of these populations.…”

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Unique patterns of dietary adequacy in three cultures of Canadian Arctic indigenous peoples

Kuhnlein

Receveur

Soueida

et al. 2008

Public Health Nutr.

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Background: Information is needed on dietary adequacy of Arctic indigenous populations in Canada. Extensive work has been completed on composition of Arctic food and food use, and dietary reference intakes are available. Objective: To complete the first comprehensive dietary adequacy assessment of three populations of adult Arctic indigenous people. Setting and subjects: Dietary assessment interviews were conducted with randomly selected indigenous adults during two seasons in 44 representative communities of Yukon First Nations (n 5 797), Dene/Métis, (n 5 1007) and Inuit (n 5 1525). Methods: Twenty-four-hour recalls were used to derive adjusted distributions of usual nutrient intakes in four age/gender groups for assessment of dietary adequacy for carbohydrate, dietary fibre, protein, n-3 fatty acids, n-6 fatty acids, calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, selenium, zinc, vitamin A, riboflavin, folate, vitamin B 6 , vitamin C, vitamin D and vitamin E. Results: Nutrients with high prevalence of adequacy for most age/gender groups in all three cultures were protein, carbohydrate, n-3 fatty acids, iron, copper, zinc, manganese, selenium, riboflavin and vitamin B 6 ; some individuals exceeded the upper intake level for iron, zinc, selenium, vitamin A and vitamin D. Estimated average requirement nutrients of concern for adequacy were magnesium, folate, vitamin A, vitamin C and vitamin E; however, a few age/gender groups were exceptions. Prevalence of inadequacy for AI nutrients which may be undesirably high were fibre, n-6 fatty acids and calcium. Vitamin D was more adequate in Inuit women and men than for Yukon First Nations or Dene/Métis. Conclusions: Unique patterns of dietary adequacy exist among Arctic indigenous peoples. Local wildlife food sources and market food sources should be maximised for their nutrient contributions to Arctic diets.

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“…Marine mammals such as beluga whales also have an important role as a traditional harvest in the subsistence lifestyle of northern communities. Muktuk, or blubber, a traditional food of the Inuvialuit people, is high in vitamins A, C, D, and E, as well as omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids (Kuhnlein et al, 2006;Reynolds et al, 2006). Therefore, changes to the health and abundance of Arctic marine mammals may also have significant cultural and health impacts on Inuit communities.…”

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Examining the Health and Energetic Impacts of Climate-Induced Prey Shifts on Beluga Whales Using Community-Based Research

Choy¹

2014

ARCTIC

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Vitamins A, D, and E in Canadian Arctic traditional food and adult diets

Cited by 92 publications

References 33 publications

Dietary assessment of Indigenous Canadian Arctic women with a focus on pregnancy and lactation

Dietary assessment of Indigenous Canadian Arctic women with a focus on pregnancy and lactation

Unique patterns of dietary adequacy in three cultures of Canadian Arctic indigenous peoples

Examining the Health and Energetic Impacts of Climate-Induced Prey Shifts on Beluga Whales Using Community-Based Research

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