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Pacific islanders pay heavy price for abandoning traditional diet [1]

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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.

Publication Date: 
01/07/2010
Jane Parry [2]
Bulletin of the World Health Organization [3]
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Nutrition [4], Fast Foods [5], Health Effects [6], Health [7], Women [8], Traditional Knowledge [9], Heart Diseases [10], Diabetes [11], Anaemia [12], Non Communicable Diseases [13], Obesity [14], Fiji [15], Kiribati [16], Marshall Island [17], Papua New Guinea [18], Vanuatu [19], Bulletin of the World Health Organization [3], Jane Parry [2]

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[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/bulletin-world-health-organization
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[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/traditional-knowledge
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/heart-diseases
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/diabetes
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/anaemia
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/non-communicable-diseases
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/obesity
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/fiji
[16] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/kiribati
[17] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/marshall-island
[18] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/papua-new-guinea
[19] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/vanuatu