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The dark history of Canada s Food Guide: How experiments on Indigenous children shaped nutrition policy
Nutritional experiments were performed on intentionally malnourished Indigenous children in residential schools in the 1940s and ’50s. These experiments are directly connected to Canada’s Food Guide, explained historian Ian Mosby
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Posted: Apr 19, 2021 3:52 PM ET | Last Updated: April 19
A nurse takes a blood sample from a child at the Indian School in Port Alberni, B.C., in 1948, during a period when nutritional experiments were being conducted on children in residential schools.(Library and Archives Canada/Canadian Press)
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