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I was intrigued by Hopgood’s book and How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm didn’t disappoint. I wasn’t prepared for what a fun and wild ride I was embarking on with this book.

Shortly after we brought our daughter home, a friend recommended Mei-Ling Hopgood’s How Eskimos Keep Their Babies Warm: And Other Adventures in Parenting. Once in a while a book would come along and it would pique my interest. When we started the adoption process, I didn’t want to read many parenting books for fear of jinxing our chances of becoming parents. My husband and I are new parents through adoption. As a children’s librarian, I’ve been fascinated by the not-so-traditional books about childhood development, such as Nutureshock: New Thinking About Children by Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, and books about kids, such as Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover of Childhood by Susan Linn.

However Galloway urges caution in interpreting the study's obesity findings: 'Little is known about the health risks of obesity in Inuit populations.' The child survey and its related adult component offer an opportunity to learn more about the growth and health of Canadian Inuit.My journey to parenthood is different from that of some of my friends and not so different from other friends. When fruits and vegetables are available, they are often prohibitively expensive, leading to consumption of high calorie food and drinks. Inuit then rely more on store bought foods.

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Men are often working full time jobs and don't have the time to hunt, while the cost of skidoos and gas make it a costly venture. Caribou are becoming scare in some areas and migration routes are changing. Sea ice is melting earlier, freezing later, and can be more unstable, which makes hunting difficult. Major changes in the North are impacting the availability of traditional 'country' foods. Many countries are facing a similar rise in childhood obesity rates, especially in those areas facing rapid social and economic transitions.' Galloway was not surprised that preschoolers were showing high rates of overweight and obesity. Significantly more boys than girls were overweight, 57% compared to 45%, a trend that's markedly different from that found in Inuit adults in Alaska, Canada and Greenland, where 25% of women are obese compared to 16% of men. The Canada-wide prevalence for overweight is 15 to 30% of preschoolers while in Greenland it's 21%. The study, part of a larger International Polar Year Inuit Health Survey, showed that 51% of children measured were overweight, a number that surpasses preschoolers in Greenland, Canada and the U.S. Unfortunately, as well as gaining height, Inuit preschoolers are also gaining weight. We don't know what the pattern of growth is over time,' says Galloway. 'No current data exist for Canadian Inuit schoolchildren and youth. And decades of work with Canadian adult Inuit populations consistently show they are shorter than adults in the general population. In Greenland, the height of Inuit youth begins to fall behind the general population in their early teens. The data are from the International Polar Year Nunavut Inuit Child Health Survey led by McGill University, the University of Toronto and territorial and community partners. The study of 26% of three to five year olds in 16 Nunavut communities marks the first time data on the height and weight of preschoolers has been collected for Inuit populations living in the North. However, says Galloway, it's impossible to know whether this trend will continue because school-aged children and youth have not been recently surveyed. Factors influencing height include nutrition of the child, maternal health and diet, and infectious disease rates.

Unlike weight, which can fluctuate quickly, it takes decades for changes in health to be reflected in the height of a population. 'Height reflects overall health status over a lifetime and over generations.' Tracey Galloway, lead author and a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health. 'This is in many ways a good news story,' says Dr. This represents a remarkable change from previous work showing Inuit infants began life with equivalent birth lengths, but were falling behind by the time they were six months old.

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