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Nauruan residents walking around Nauru International Airport
Young Nauruans in 1914
Share of adults that are obese in different countries in Oceania, 1975 to 2016

Pacific island nations and associated states make up the top seven on a 2007 list of heaviest countries, and eight of the top ten. In all these cases, more than 70% of citizens aged 15 and over are obese.[1] A mitigating argument is that the BMI measures used to appraise obesity in Caucasian bodies may need to be adjusted for appraising obesity in Polynesian bodies, which typically have larger bone and muscle mass than Caucasian bodies[citation needed]; however, this would not account for the drastically higher rates of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes among these same islanders.[2][3][4]

  1. ^ Lauren Streib (8 February 2007). "World's Fattest Countries". Forbes. Archived from the original on 25 January 2017.
  2. ^ "Fat of the land: Nauru tops obesity league". Independent.co.uk. 26 December 2010.
  3. ^ Bialik, By Carl (12 April 2013). "Island Where Obesity May Not be All It Seems". Wall Street Journal.
  4. ^ Snowdon, Wendy; Malakellis, Mary; Millar, Lynne; Swinburn, Boyd (2014). "Ability of body mass index and waist circumference to identify risk factors for non-communicable disease in the Pacific Islands". Obesity Research & Clinical Practice. 8 (1): e36–45. doi:10.1016/j.orcp.2012.06.005. PMID 24548575.

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