NUKU'ALOFA (AFP) - on Tonga's supermarket shelves, large cans of corned beef, that the size of the paint cans traditional cuisine such as fish and coconuts before long time-replaced a contribution to an obesity epidemic, which sees the Pacific place in the world as the fattest.
Meat in Tonga comes almost without exception in the can, unless Turkey Breast, meat loaf, lunch meat or spam in a variety of forms, including purchased can smoked, with Chili or laced with cheese for an additional calories hit.
The common denominator, Tonga? s says Chief Medical Officer Malakai ake, is that the "junk"meat are loaded with salt and saturated fats, i.e. Islanders expanding waist.
"This is the biggest problem facing Tonga," he told AFP, citing rising levels of weight-related of coronary artery disease, diabetes, and strokes among islanders.
"Every other day there is a funeral, a neighbor, a relative, a friend next door." "It is always heart disease, diabetes, it is ridiculous".
The Ministry of health for Tongan says more as is 90 percent of the total population as overweight and obese is more than 60 percent.
According to World Health Organization (WHO) data published in the last year is Pacific island States, eight of the top 10 countries where the male population overweight or obese.
Weight disorders are responsible for three quarters of all deaths in the region, Fiji-based WHO nutritionist Temo Waqanivalu, prices in some Pacific near means Nations with diabetes to 50 percent.
He said "it a problem that health systems have to deal with,".
"If you walk in a hospital in one of the Pacific countries, about 75-80 percent of the operations the result non-communicable diseases with obesity linked."
Experts say economic, cultural and lifestyle factors have combined epidemic to obesity, which make a growing problem all over the world is acute in the Pacific Ocean.
AKE said the traditional lifestyle, where kept fit by agriculture and fishing, gave people a more settled existence in recent years and motor vehicles were more readily available.
"In my young days, we all go and swim," he said. "Now people use the car to go a little way down the road."
Traditional diet is based on fish and root crops have fallen also favor, replaced with fatty foods imported from Western countries who see Islanders as convenient and prestigious.
"they are not with the glamour and frills of imported foodstuffs compete," said Waqanivalu, adding that cash strapped is often hardly a consumer in the Pacific Ocean choice of poor nutrition choices.
"In some countries, it is cheaper to buy a carbonated drinks as a bottle of water."
"If it down the aisle of the supermarket, likely that the last thing people are looking is the nutrition information, at the price they are looking for."
Pacific Islanders sometimes argue that they are of course great frames and are more prone for setting, though it rejects a theory, the Waqanivalu to weight than other people.
He said a large scale had long seen as a sign of the State in the Pacific Ocean, but the message was slowly off, which is greater than not necessarily better.
"We are people, which is great OK say but is bold is different and that is what we begin to see," he said.
Obesity helped Tonga's late King Tupou IV, who died in 2006, in the 1990's, awareness of as a national diet and exercise routine he organized after receiving warnings from his doctors about his weight.
Listed by the Guinness Book of records as the heaviest monarch in the world with nearly 210 kg (463 pounds), he allegedly lost 70 lbs.
But Tonga the current Prime Minister Lord Tüzhä ivakano said can be done to the problem of obesity and to combat imports such as mutton damper restrict his Government-cheap, fatty sheep offcuts popular would look at in the country.
"We have to go back to the old way, just eat good food-taro, Kumaras (sweet potatoes), sweet potatoes," he said
"It is a question saying: 'we're sorry, you have to find an alternative', probably eating fish instead of mutton flaps."
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