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Young woman with empty junk food packages
  Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — Pacific Island governments are increasingly imposing taxes on unhealthy foods as they battle a non-communicable disease crisis, a New Zealand study shows. Absent from the list is American Samoa, along with the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Kiribati, Palau, the...
Senate President, Tuaolo Manaia Fruean
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — The alarming rate of the spread of cancer and other prevalent non-communicable diseases (NCDs) has prompted the Senate President to call for more awareness. Senate President, Tuaolo Manaia Fruean introduced a resolution on Friday to highlight the alarming rate of cancer...
graphic showing percentages of exercise by country
Geneva, SWITZERLAND — A quarter of the world’s adults are not getting enough exercise, putting them at risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, dementia, and some cancers – and there has been no improvement over the past 15 years. This is according to a global study conducted by the World...