The Inuit’s rapid dietary shift from harvested to store-bought food is fraught with nutritional, financial, and cultural consequences.
In only a few generations, the Inuit have undergone an important dietary transition. As harvested country foods, such as arctic char and caribou, are supplemented and sometimes completely replaced with store-bought groceries, the Inuit suffer the consequences of an imperfect food system seemingly transposed from southern Canada.
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