The traditional diet of the Inuit people of Northern Canada consists primarily of marine foods rich in n-3 fatty acids, a class of polyunsaturated fats that have beneficial effects on cardiovascular ...

Ice-fishing and seal meat help sustain the Inuit; Stroud joins in the icy search for food. Pond Inlet faces its greatest challenge: climate change. As ice slowly recedes from the North, the Inuit diet ...

Washington, DC - January 4, 2017 - Researchers at the University of Montreal, in Canada, have characterized the gut microbiome of the Canadian Arctic Inuit for the first time. Reporting this week in ...

As food prices soar it is clear that food security is becoming an ever-growing concern for Canadians. However, not everyone faces these rising costs equally. In Inuit Nunangat — the homeland of Inuit ...

Scientists warned on Thursday that the long-term health of Inuit hunters in eastern Greenland was under threat, due to so-called "forever chemicals" in the atmosphere and their diet of polar bear and ...

The indigenous people of Greenland, the Inuit, have lived for a long time in the extreme conditions of the Arctic, including low annual temperatures, and with a specialized diet rich in protein and ...

Tiff-Annie Kenny receives funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the New Frontiers in Research Fund (CIHR), the Northern Contaminants Program, ArcticNet, Fonds de recherche du ...