Samoa obesity: Activists launch campaign to change locals' diet habits 

The problem is that imported foods are more cheap and convenient compared locally sold ones. Buying fish from the market is more expensive compared to getting a 2 kg of chicken from the many Chinese stores in Samoa

This guy is a hero of his people. They should take that spam and use it like it is supposed to, as fish bait.

The quantity of the food you eat is the key, 5000k a day calories of heathy food still make you fat and diabetic

Bless you Chef John! Keep fighting for our people!

Just stop eating processed food . And yes that means pisupo too. And get rid of McDonald's and Carl's Jr KFC etc .

The Samoan Island is beautiful..... would like to visit😍

They need to eat more of a medditarian diet and stop eating too much red meat. Instead eat more whole grains seafood nuts legumes veggies and fruits.

Gosh if I live in an island, I will always eat seafoods, vegetables and fresh fruits. 🤤 Grilled fish is sooo good. Clams are so good too!!! My exercise will be swimming, surfing and climbing trees. It's a very good excuse to be just on a swimsuit and flip flops. 🤔

as a samoan. I love food, any food healthy or not

Orkanic food

Is it the sugars in the processed imported food that’s the problem? Excess sucrose... could they teach the population about how insulin resistance comes from excess sugar nor excess salt?

The problem isn’t what you eat, but rather how much. There are plenty of people that loves bacon but aren’t obese. You can also eat a lot of fruit and still become fat.

Dr John McDougall has numerous videos about this, and he encourages people to eat their heritage. He spent years in Hawaii and said that the obesity epidemic started when the native people began eating American junk food diet. Standard American Diet is a killer.

One issue in Polynesian culture is every occasion is celebrated with food (lots of food). Add that too a big family and friend unit you’re constantly eating all the time lols

No matter how much “good” food you feed us we won’t get skinny. We have to eat and live like our ancestors did to make major weight loss. Health food known in America or other countries such as whole wheats, beans, corn, etc is not good for us because we didn’t have that. We had pork, banana, coconut, taro, fish and a few amount of other things to eat. We had that diet and we were going on long voyages where we wouldn’t eat for long periods of time. Now that food is so easily accessible to us, we gain weight easily because we don’t have to hunt for it or plant it and wait for it to be ripe. You can get everything at the supermarket.

I’m thinking that Samoan foods & Southeast Asian foods are the opposites.

Oh I love fish, I wish I could eat everyday where I live , Brasil , unfortunately is quite expensive here, I wish I lived in Samoa

I blame Globalisation, but their are some positives

When you visit Samoa, they gonna ask you: _"You like Samoa?"_ Slow it down, what they're really asking you is: _"You like some more, huh?"_ ......as in food, you like some more food?!?

Omg, this WHO dude is Azerbaijani ❤

Keto, fasting, praying, and teaching each other about ketones and autophagy is the key to saving Samoa.

I read samosa..

Omg the cutest accent

Even the wild food advocate is overweight...

In the U.S. we eat food that should not be fed to animals frozen meat like substances that are digested and chewed for you. It is cheap you blame the poor people for eating it but it is so much cheaper to eat unhealthy. What we need is a tax on unhealthy foods that supplement healthier choices fruits and veg and REAL meat that you can tell was actually from an animal.

They are born big man.

Stop eating all that canned food

Arent they naturally big people?

Lazy

Yup and dont blame whiteman either

I eat any type of food I want, admittedly often unhealthy, and I'm only 105 pounds. So while I agree eating fresh, nutritional food is the healthiest thing to do, I don't buy that's the reason so many Pacific Islanders are fat. I think it has to do with proportions more than anything.

No mention of how in the Polynesia culture , fat = sexy. Sounds like local farmers butthurt over the popularity of imported food.