We talk a lot on The Salt about the Mediterranean diet, which is rich in nuts, olive oil, fish, fruits and vegetables. Scientists believe it's one of the world's healthiest patterns of eating, and can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eskimos do not suffer from diabetes or cancer, rarely from hardening of the arteries. Yet they subsist almost entirely on meat. The possible relationship between such absence of disease and the ...

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 ...