November 27, 2011
Tonga battles obesity
Amputations and heart disease are at record levels in Tonga’s hospitals. In a health system with no facilities to deal with kidney failure or cancer – 80 per cent of surgeries are linked to lifestyle related diseases, notably, obesity. Six out of every 10 Tongans are obese. On average, Tongans’ eat four times the amount of food recommended by the country’s health department. Tonga is now looking to ban or tax poor quality imported foods. Legislation may not teach restraint but keeping fatty foods off the menu is a step towards slimming down Tonga’s spiraling health costs. Al Jazeera’s Drew Ambrose reports from Nukualofa, Tonga.
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Americans are way worse. The reason why some are overweight is because they are eating that European junk. Go back to eating our healthy Island diets and ban that Junk European introduced foods.
@steeljawz SHUT THE HELL UP DUDE FREKIN RUDE
@steeljawz I’d bet your mom is a FAT ASS.
@MississippiBryo First off, that obese person does not represent all Americans. Secondly, i don’t doubt for a second that you’re exaggerating the amount of food they bought and eat. This video is about the Tongan people, and you have decided to start bashing Americans, as if it’s the national past time of your home country.
fat asses
And this at a time when 750,000 Somalians are facing famine…
What a sick world
Yet they claim they need the Minerva reef for fishing. They have enough food there, so they should free Minerva. When I read about how they annexed the reef because they want fishing waters, I thought it made sense because I figured they needed food. Now, I see that they aren’t in need of fishing waters and should let the reef go to better their own living standards with a new potent trading partner.
Wiring a jaw shut procedures pretty ridicilous oh and i seen alipate fakaleiti
They only want pity. Such worthless fuck-ups.
Excuse me; not every Tongan are the same ok; every countries, theirs bad and good pple ok; u silly.
@Kharma4u what are you on Tongans are violent and careless people seriously, you must have never met Tongans who are the completely opposite, caring and generous
Tongans are a dangerous breed of violent and careless people.
Wiring a jaw shut is not the solution to the problem. Sure, the patient may drop a large amount of weight at a given time but that doesn’t address nutritional needs – where’s the adequate protein, vitamins, minerals, carbs & fibre in a liquid diet? I believe this issue needs to be addressed, through the education system. If children are the future, why not start from the bottom & work your way up? Educate the students about the importance of healthy eating & it’s long term effects etc.
I think the best Country that really look after the health of the pple and the food they eat is Australia. The best country in the world. I spend most of my life in Australia and i know how they really look after the health of the pple, and the food they eat everyday..
fuck white ppl
@TheCelticmaori never had any
tongan cooking is to die for!!!!! seriously no pun intended
mono ihe nau keileka he sipoti ke nau manako kiai ke ngaungaue moe stay fit
Wiering the jaw shut? omg! thats the 1st ive heard of the that. scarrrry! lol
to much horse cock sandwich for the mouth! Lmao… fat caants!
U just need to stop munching on them poor innocent horse.
Learn from us Samoans…see how fit we are
r food like many healthy generations who have passed before us. Stop selling yourselves out.
Tongans must wake up and educate themselves about whats in the food which are being imported from oversea.
Here in america they are selling clone animal meat side by side with organic grown animal meat. And that’s just aside from some of the dangerous food we have in grocery stores.
What anger a lot of us the most is that they fully understand the affects of some of these ingredients they put in food… Purpose?
Tongans need to snap out of it and wake up.
Go back to the plantation and grow you
Basically the food that are imported to tonga and various island in the pacific are not only unhealthy but dangerous, because of certain products which are in the ingredients.
And what a better way to kill off these population? Imported food! They think these sheeps since majority of them don’t speak or write english won’t question what’s being printed on the label. Pacific islanders are physically strong but have one weakness… Eating.
1:29 poor pig :’(