Pacific nations battle obesity epidemic

Sunday, April 10, 2011 - 11:31 in Biology & Nature

On Tonga's supermarket shelves, huge cans of corned beef the size of paint tins replaced traditional fare such as fish and coconuts long ago -- contributing to an obesity epidemic that sees the Pacific region ranked as the fattest in the world.

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