In the pre-Columbian era, diets were based on local fruits and vegetables. There were also traditional methods of hunting and gathering wild food, agriculture and processing, storage and conservation of food, these processes were disappearing from the colonization.
Many inhabitants of the Pacific islands have switched to a more Western diet based on fast and processed food, and as a result, both obesity and diabetes have skyrocketed. Now, Pacific Islanders rely on imported, highly processed foods, such as white flour, white sugar, packaged meat and fish, margarine, mayonnaise, carbonated beverages, candy, cookies and cookies. cereals for breakfast. The first foreign food that entered the islands with the process of colonization was rice.
