This should be the highest priority for any Pacific islander, especially when the health issues can be prevented and possibly reversed with education and changing cultural habits that support such unhealthy choices.  A state of health emergency has already been declared for the Pacific island region...

Lifestyle disease rate explodes among Pacific Islanders

By Helen Altonn 

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, May 27, 2010

Diabetes, heart disease, strokes, cancer and other diseases -- many lifestyle- related -- have reached "epidemic" proportions in the U.S.-affiliated Pacific islands, a crisis that grips Hawaii because many islanders choose to live here under the Compact of Free Association.

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