Obesity - Pacific Islands
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- Created on: 11-01-16 09:40
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- Obesity - Pacific Islands
- Causes
- Exchange canoes for cars
- Biggest are most attractive
- Do not take advantage of health care
- Limited medical healthcare-transport to and from the island costly and time consuming
- Herediatary
- Average 20-39 male 8,700 calories a day
- Not a lot of money for rural health
- Different work - moved from farming to modern (not physical)
- Social status
- Dependant on high in fat imported foods
- Effects
- Tonga - weight loss programmes annually between 1995 and 2002 - prizes given and local media involvement
- Need of healthier diet using local food to benefit the economy as well as themselves.
- Diabetes - only takes 20 years to appear in populations that adopt a high calorie diet and lack of excersise
- Responses
- WHO- comprehensive and effective clinical programmes and education - essential in tackling the problem
- WHO - must be addressed through public health policy - promote healthy food and physical activity
- Causes
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