Traditional Foods Are a Way to Talk About Health: The CDC Traditional Foods Project

1. The purpose of the Traditional Foods Project (TFP) was to promote access to traditional foods, physical activity, and social support to address community health in Native communities particularly Type 2 diabetes prevention.

a) True
b) False

2. Food Sovereignty was defined by the International Indian Treaty Council as “the right of peoples to define their own policies and strategies for sustainable production, distribution, and consumption of food, a policy that respects their own cultures and systems of managing natural resources “.

a) True
b) False

3. Recurring themes of the Traditional Foods Project included which of the following:

a) Traditional knowledge
b) Connections to health
c) Community engagement
d) Knowledge sharing and gratitude
e) Flexibility to do what works
f) Health practice and policy
g) Sustainability
h) All of the above.

4. Objectives of the Traditional Foods Project included which of the following:

a) Support sustainable, evaluable ecological approaches to reclaim traditional foods.
b) Encourage local practices to increase access to healthy traditional foods and physical activity.
c) Revive and create stories of healthy traditional ways.
d) Integrate culture and history to promote community health and help prevent type 2 diabetes.
e) All of the above.

5. The Traditional Foods Project (TFP) results included which of the following:

a) Quantitative results showed collaborative community engagement and sustained interventions such as gardening, availability of healthy foods across venues, new health practices, health education, and storytelling.
b) Qualitative results demonstrated the importance of tribally driven programs, underscoring the significance of traditional foods in relation to land, identity, food sovereignty, and food security.
c) All of the above.