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"Hunger was never absent": How residential school diets shaped current patterns of diabetes among Indigenous peoples in Canada
Citation: CMAJ 2017 August 14;189:E1043-5. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.170448

"Hunger was never absent"

1948 - 1952
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Multiple reports on nutritional standards were released, highlighting the malnutrition and poor health conditions endemic in residential schools. In 2017, scholars Ian Mosby and Tracey Galloway published an academic article linking the diets in residential schools to current patterns of diabetes among Indigenous peoples in Canada.

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