Medicine
Designing Culturally Tailored Nutrition Interventions for Indigenous Communities
Quick fact
Nutrition interventions that ignore cultural context often fail: a study showed that culturally tailored programs for Indigenous communities can reduce diet-related disease risk by up to 5 times more than generic programs.
Why this is interesting
You've probably seen nutrition campaigns that tell people to eat more vegetables. But what if the vegetables they recommend aren't part of your culture or even available where you live?