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Report on Somali Diet

Author(s): Aliya S. Haq, MS, RD, CD, WIC
Reviewer(s): Christine Wilson Owens, Editor; Salma Musa, CCM; J. Carey Jackson, MD
Date Authored: August 01, 2003
Information about common dietary beliefs and practices of Somali participants in WIC nutrition education.

Aliya S. Haq is pediatric dietician at Harborview Medical Center. 
Salma Musa is Caseworker Cultural Mediator, Harborview Medical Center
Dr. Carey Jackson is Medical Director of the International Medicine Clinic, Harborview Medical Center/UW

 

The following information was collected during more than 70 nutrition education groups for Somali patients taught by dietitian Aliya Haq at the WIC clinic at Harborview Medical Center (HMC), between 1999 and 2002. WIC is a supplemental nutrition education program for pregnant and postpartum women, infants, and children up to age five. Nutrition education is an integral part of the WIC program, which also provides healthy food vouchers to low income families. More than 400 Somali patients have attended the nutrition education groups at Harborview since they began in September 1999.