Household food insecurity but not dietary diversity is associated with children's mean micronutrient density adequacy in rural communities across Ghana.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine predictors of household food insecurity, dietary diversity, and children's mean micronutrient density adequacy and the relationship among these dietary measures.

Method: Baseline analysis of a quasi-experimental 16-mo intervention study conducted in 12 rural communities in the three main agroecological zones in Ghana. The study included 608 caregivers with their 2- to 5-y-old children.

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

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 24-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 patterns of dietary adequacy in three cultures of Canadian Arctic indigenous peoples.

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.

Age differences in vitamin A intake among Canadian Inuit.

Background: Inuit traditional food provides ample amounts of preformed vitamin A. However, the dietary transition away from traditional food raises concerns regarding dietary adequacy. Vitamin A is an essential nutrient with inadequate and excessive exposures having adverse effects.

Arctic indigenous peoples experience the nutrition transition with changing dietary patterns and obesity.

Indigenous Peoples globally are part of the nutrition transition. They may be among the most extreme for the extent of dietary change experienced in the last few decades. In this paper, we report survey data from 44 representative communities from 3 large cultural areas of the Canadian Arctic: the Yukon First Nations, Dene/Métis, and Inuit communities.