Food-based dietary guidelines in circumpolar regions

Abstract

Countries: Faroe Islands, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland, Northern Canada, Alaska (not Russia) The Arctic Human Health Expert Group (AHHEG) started its work as a newly formed group under the Arctic Council’s Sustainable Development Working Group (SDWG) in 2009. One of the priorities of the AHHEG is “Diet and Nutrition” and, as a consequence of this, the preparation of a report comparing dietary guidelines in the Arctic was authorized as an Arctic Council project. For logistical and linguistic reasons, the present report is confined to the Arctic regions of North America and the Nordic countries, and thus omits Russia. Furthermore, only information available through the Internet is included. This is a significant limitation and we hope to rectify it at a later stage. We invite readers to provide us with additional input and suggestions to help us with these improvements.