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and skills. And it’s worth gaining those skills and building them up.” Following the launch of the Nunavut Food
Guide at the end of 2011, Wakegijig and her colleagues have continued to pursue this skills education process. They have assembled a set of 10 nutritious, healthy recipes using traditional and store foods, accompanied by videos showing the details
of their
preparation, and a toolkit is currently being developed for community workers with clear how-to’s and useful tools for nutrition education activities in communities. In addition to this work to support
that of their grandfathers. While it amuses them greatly to think of her struggling to match him in hunting a caribou or seal, she reminds them that spending money to buy food in a store also requires knowledge, skills and experience. “You start talking about how to select a nutritious meal out of the grocery store, one
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that would be equal to what the caribou or seal would be,” she says. “Grandpa, like most shoppers, would have to decipher many uncommon words, in small print, and make sense out of the nutrient values (i.e. food labels), he’d have to determine the best nutritional value for his dollar, and on it goes. You can very quickly start to paint the picture
community workers directly, the Nunavut nutritionists have also been exploring a partnership with the stores that sell food in the territory, and they are pleased at the level of partnership that is emerging. Not only are the stores planning to make copies of the food guide and recipes available, but also, they are donating space and equipment to make it easier for community workers to promote healthy eating. Wakegijig notes, “These kinds of partnerships can go a long way toward making it easier for people to make healthy choices. “What these businesses are showing me is that they care about these communities too,” she concludes. “They’re willing to spend money to try to shift the balance of people’s choices to healthier foods. And retailers will be among the many partners who are needed to build a community of a meaningful change in Nunavut to encourage healthy eating habits.”
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