Obesity emergence in the Pacific islands: why understanding colonial history and social change is important
Between 1980 and 2008, two Pacific island nations - Nauru and the Cook Islands - experienced the fastest rates of increasing BMI in the world. Rates were over four times higher than the mean global BMI increase. The aim of the present paper is to examine why these populations have been so prone to o...
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| Format: | Journal article |
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Cambridge University Press
2014
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