The Aboriginal Diet

The Italians have transformed the Australian food culture extremely greatly. Before Italians came, Australia had very little food supply. When the immigrants arrived they introduced many different staple foods such as olive oil, spaghetti, pizza, pasta, salads, and wine.

Renata, I totally agree with you that the Native American diet is healthier than the African diet, and due to the variety of foods that they have, there will be more options for them to choose unlike the African diet. I do understand why you picked the Native American diet and I would choose as same as your choice, but don’t you think that nowadays our food became very similar. In other words, globalization made the same food available in different parts of the world. For example, if you visit downtown New Have you will see bunch of Chinese, Thai, Middle Eastern, Italian, and Brazilin restaurants. Most these cuisines will have the same taste as if you eating the Sushi in China or eating the Italian Lasagna in Italy.

Aboriginal land use practices centred on the sustainable use of the land. Aboriginal Australians practiced a form of agriculture known as ‘fire stick agriculture’. This involved utilizing fire to hunt animals, by setting fire to vegetation to draw prey into the open. Doing this also increased the availability of new grass and vegetation to feed animals. Minerals from the burnt vegetation are absorbed into the soil, increasing its fertility and therefore the abundance of vegetation in the area. Ensuring that there was enough feed for animals in the wild allowed Indigenous Australians to maintain population levels of the species they hunted in a sustainable manner for thousands of years.

Diabetes is a growing health concern within Aboriginal communities across Canada, it is a health concern that is often an underlying condition secondary to many other health issues and often goes undiagnosed or untreated. Many individuals within these communities choose to leave their diabetes untreated until it becomes life threatening and becomes too late to treat or control. According to Health Canada (2013), Aboriginal peoples who are living on reserves have a rate of diabetes that is three to five times higher as compared to Non-Aboriginal Canadians (Para. 1). The growing rate of diabetes is especially concerning amongst the Inuit communities, and is a growing concern; the rate of diabetes within this community is expected to steadily increase over the coming years from contributing factors such as lack of activity, poor nutrition and obesity (Health Canada, 2013). For these reasons alone it is important to raise awareness and educate these communities about diabetes and healthy lifestyle so that positive steps can be taken in order to maintain healthy living. Aboriginal peoples living in Canada have higher rates of diabetes as compared to non Aboriginal Canadians, and of the two types of diabetes, type 1 and type 2, the latter is more prevalent in First Nations communities (Brooks, Darroch, & Giles, 2013). With diabetes uncontrolled, an individual can come across many health problems such as poor circulation, foot ulcers, and sometimes even amputation (American

As health professionals, we must look beyond individual attributes of Indigenous Australians to gain a greater understanding and a possible explanation of why there are such high rates of ill health issues such as alcoholism, depression, abuse, shorter life expectancy and higher prevalence of diseases including diabetes, heart disease and obesity in our indigenous population. Looking at just the individual aspects and the biomedical health model, we don’t get the context of Aboriginal health. This is why we need to explore in further detail what events could have created such inequities in Aboriginal health. Other details that we should consider are the historical and cultural factors such as, ‘terra nullius’, dispossession and social

Childhood obesity in Aboriginal peoples is not solely dependent on diet and physical activity, it relates to prenatal circumstances, feeding practices, food insecurity and policies (National Aboriginal Health Organization, 2012). Obesity among Aboriginal children is multifaceted and intersects with historical, geographical, biological, cultural, social and economic contributing factors. The ecological model (Willows et al., 2012) highlights the interacting relationships between various factors that play a part in the high rates of childhood obesity in Aboriginal communities. This model recognizes the overreaching influence of colonization but shows that the community, physical and socio-cultural environment a child lives all play roles in obesity

Historically, Aboriginal people eat traditional foods found on their land, such as fish and plants. Since being displaced, a significant amount of traditional food consumed is contaminated due to “anthropogenic activities, [and] environmental activities (e.g. mercury and PCBs)” (Richmond and Ross 404). In addition, consumption of traditional

Middle Eastern culture is also one of the world’s oldest cultures, and they too were semi-nomadic. Unlike Indigenous Australian culture, it is still very predominant today. They enjoyed a variety of very different foods such as dairy products like cheese, milk, and cream. Foods that were very rarely seen within indigenous communities in Australia. Meats such as lamb, cereals and grains, fruits and vegetables, and even fish are other traditional foods of the Middle East. Bread, rice and other grains were also a common staple in many regions.

Proximal determinants of health involve conditions that have an effect on physical, mental, emotional or spiritual health. The origin of good health arises long before conception, with the historical, political, economic and social contexts. Proximal detriments help influence health over people life span. Beginning in early childhood, social determinants establish a possible course that is only moderately changeable in the current social and economic context, which many Aboriginal children live. Although the Australian Government aims towards proving aid to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their requirements are not always

At a young age, Canadian children are frequently taught that eating right and staying active are a few of the ways that we can keep ourselves at a healthy body weight. Author, Melanie A. Ferris of the journal “Preventing Obesity in Canada’s Aboriginal Children: Not Just a Matter of Eating Right and Getting Active” explains that many Indigenous citizens of Ontario are aware of how simple it appears to prevent obesity in the media, though, these often stressed tactics are not mindful of the living conditions present in the rural Indigenous communities. As the Indigenous determinants of health differ from the majority in Canada, preventing obesity in their young population can be a difficult task.

Improvement of health and well-being of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in Australia remains a big challenge for the Australian Government. There is a wide gap between the health status of indigenous and non-indigenous Australians and it is even seen as a human rights issue by the United Nations Committee (Calma and Dick 2007). The social determinants theory argues that health and well-being is governed by a number of social factors. Situations in which people grow, live and work are responsible for inequities in health. Studies suggest that between one-third and one-half of the health gap between indigenous and non-indigenous communities is because of differences and inequalities in socio-economic status such as education, employment

Aboriginals or indigenous Australians are the native people of Australia. Aboriginals were nomadic people who came to Australia about 40,000 – 60,000 years ago from Southeast Asia. Religion is a great part of Aboriginal culture. The essay answers these questions: What do Aboriginals belief? What is a Kinship system? What is Dreaming and Dreamtime? What rituals does Aboriginals have?

Indigenous Australians have higher lung, cervix and liver cancer rates than the rest the rest of the Australian population however the rates of breast, colon, rectum, lymphoma, prostate and melanoma are lower than that of the rest of the population. [1] The cancers that appear at lower rates throughout the indigenous community often appear at later stages of life through the age group that acquires them more frequently through the rest of the population. Due to the shorter life expectancy of the indigenous community the rates at which these age related cancers occur will be lower as fewer people are reaching the age where they begin to commonly take place. [2]

The Aborigines were traditionally a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer society, travelling seasonally. Their intimate knowledge of the land and the seasons allowed them to predict where and when certain food items would be available. Men hunted larger game while women gathered fruits, nuts and caught small game. Theirs was a life well adapted to the harshness of Australia. The most important factor in Aboriginal life was (and is) the kinship system.

desert were taller and lean. The Aboriginals lived solely by hunting and food gathering. Each group accumulated detailed knowledge of the habits, cycles, and and food values of the plants, insects reptiles, marsupials, and fish