Pacific islanders pay heavy price for abandoning traditional diet

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Replacing traditional foods with imported, processed food has contributed to the high prevalence of obesity and related health problems in the Pacific islands.

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Publication Date: 
01/07/2010
Jane Parry
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
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Nutrition, Fast Foods, Health Effects, Health, Women, Traditional Knowledge, Heart Diseases, Diabetes, Anaemia, Non Communicable Diseases, Obesity, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Island, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Jane Parry