Traditional Food Guide for the Alaska Native People

Download or read book Traditional Food Guide for the Alaska Native People written by Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of the Traditional Food Guide represents itsdifferent uses by recognizing that the guide is an important toolfor healthy living for the youngest child to the oldest elder who enjoy Alaska's wild foods. It isalso a guide to help people with diseases like cancer, diabetes orheart disease learn more about nutrition and eat better foods. The food guide includes sections on nutrition, food safety and food sources from the land and sea. The food pages reference theAlaska Native names, history and preparation information andinclude personal stories. Since there are different names for manytraditional Native foods, the guide tries to address the differencesby noting the more commonly known names rather than focusingon specific foods from each Alaska region.