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Research shows food insecurity exists in severity levels, driven mainly by poverty but not prevented by employment. In Canada’s northern Indigenous communities, high food prices and structural disadvantage push insecurity further up the income pyramid, co-occurring with obesity and diabetes. 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Supporting the whole child requires teachers to understand how nutrition affects learning outcomes.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"How is food insecurity defined and categorized by severity?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"Food security is broken into availability, access, utilization, and stability of access. Food insecurity is further modeled into three levels: food secure, moderately food insecure, and severely food insecure based on quality/quantity of intake and disrupted eating patterns.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"Why do northern and Indigenous communities experience higher food insecurity rates?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"The text links heightened food insecurity to structural disadvantage, including poverty exposure, shipping costs, and geographic isolation. It also notes that colonial and policy factors can contribute to persistent modern food insecurity.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},596172,1792122294,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":34,"category_name":35,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":8,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":39,"language":139,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":140,"faqs":141,"seo_title":142,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":143,"read_time":46},687212321768,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/avatar/a0010bdbe886d2fe77?x-image-process=image/resize,m_fixed,w_180,h_180&k=1789897067658708522","REFEREED ARTICLE  \nFood Insecurity  \nin Indigenous and Northern Communities  \nPenny Wilson  \nAbstract  \nSchool nutrition programs are integral to academic success. To support the whole child, teachers must appreciate what role nutrition plays in academic success. Studies of food insecurity reveal there are degrees of severity. Although the key determinate of food security is poverty, employment is not necessarily a shield. One can eat and still be malnourished by high starch low nutrient food. In northern communities, severe costs result in food insecurity reaching higher up the income pyramid. Co-occurring measures of poverty, food insecurity, obesity and diabetes within Manitoba’s Indigenous communities are high. Schools are ideally positioned as supports within our communities.  \nIn Canada, our first world society needs to evolve how we think of food insecurity. One can be fed and still be malnourished. Obesity is often a co-occurring measure. Lack of financial resources lead to purchasing energy dense, inexpensive, processed foods high in sugar, fat, and salt (Farrell, 2014) . A simple illustration would be deciding between a $7.50 head of cauliflower or a frozen pizza for $3.99. Our food system has created a processed food environment, wherein natural nutrients are priced much higher than calorie dense, nutrient poor foods. Households that regularly consume high calorie, low nutrient meals can be simultaneously overweight and under nourished. Food insecurity in a first world country like Canada looks very different from conventional starving stereotypes.  \nFood insecurity in Indigenous communities can be said to be linked to colonialism. Residential schools scaffold assimilation, which included a transition between traditional foodsand market foods (Skinner et al., 2013) . Economic disadvantages, environmental change, and geographic isolation coalesce into persistent modern food insecurity in Indigenous communities (Drachner &Tarasuk, 2018) . There are no simple solutions. School buildings, staff, and the policies that rule them can be a strong force of support in the face of food insecurity for our youth. Schools, a manifestation of colonialism, can be used as a supportive, healing tool to address food security in our communities.  \nFood Insecurity and Its Correlates  \nVarious definitions of food security circulate between organizations, regions, and countries. The World Health Organization (WHO, 2018) breaks food security down into four aspects: availability, access, utilization, and stability of access. A basic understanding details “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods”(Ansief et al. , 2017) . A deeper study reveals that, like many conditions, there are degrees of severity. Health Canada’s model of food insecurity is defined by three levels: (1) food secure – no (or only one) indication of difficulty with access to food because of inadequate income,(2) moderately food insecure – the quality and/or quantity of food consumed were inadequate,(3) severely food insecure – reduced food intake and/or experienced disrupted eating patterns (Statistics Canada, 2012) . As we evolve our concept food security within a first world country, we must differentiate between simple availability and nutritional adequacy.  \nStatistics Canada does not collect conclusive data on First Nation communities. To acquire accurate statistics for Indigenous communities, research must be conducted in co-operation  \nwith Indigenous communities, such as the First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study (FNFNES), (2012), and A portrait of First Nations and education. Chiefs Assembly on Education,(2012) . Collaborative studies with Indigenous communities are key to ecological validity, as “most available statistics understate the true prevalence of food insecurity in Canada [because] First Nations communities are not covered in the Canadian Community Health Survey from Statistics Canada”(Dachner & Tarasuk, 2018","cbCaiuR8mbKHNjj6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiuR8mbKHNjj6","pdf",333756,"English","# Food Insecurity and Its Correlates\n## Definitions and Severity Levels\n## Data Collection and Collaborative Research\n# Income\n## Geographic Isolation and Food Pricing","[{\"question\":\"What role do school nutrition programs play in academic success?\",\"answer\":\"School nutrition programs are described as integral to academic success. Supporting the whole child requires teachers to understand how nutrition affects learning outcomes.\"},{\"question\":\"How is food insecurity defined and categorized by severity?\",\"answer\":\"Food security is broken into availability, access, utilization, and stability of access. Food insecurity is further modeled into three levels: food secure, moderately food insecure, and severely food insecure based on quality/quantity of intake and disrupted eating patterns.\"},{\"question\":\"Why do northern and Indigenous communities experience higher food insecurity rates?\",\"answer\":\"The text links heightened food insecurity to structural disadvantage, including poverty exposure, shipping costs, and geographic isolation. It also notes that colonial and policy factors can contribute to persistent modern food insecurity.\"}]","Food Insecurity in Indigenous and Northern Communities | PDF",1792082576]