Article: Decreasing traditional food use affects diet quality for adult dene/metis in 16 communities of the Canadian Northwest territories

Decreasing Traditional Food Use Affects Diet Quality for Adult Dene/Metis in 16 Communities of the Canadian Northwest Territories1,2

O. Receveur,*^3 M. Boulay* and H. V. Kuhnlein*^

ABSTRACT We assessed diets in 16 Dene/Metis communities in the Canadian Arctic. We described nutrient intakes and identified nutrients at risk among adult Dene/Metis, evaluated the influence of traditional food on diet quality, and examined the direction of dietary change by comparing intergenerational and between-community differences in dietary intake. Diet varied according to sex, age and community. Nutrients of possibly inadequate intake (irrespective of subject sex, age or community) included calcium, ...

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