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- čas přidán 2. 03. 2021
- Samoans are known for being big and strong, we are also some of the most obese people in the world. This video discusses the causes of why Samoans are so fat.
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I searched up this video cuz my two Samoan roommates keep stealing my food. Does not help the stereo type.
Stealing food doesn't = being fat?
@@MeasinaSamoalmfaoooo
Wth?
Being fat is a choice. You choose what to eat. It’s all about changing your life style. Results may come slow but the discipline stays forever.
Thank you for your opinion
We are all different shapes and sizes. While diet and exercise definitely helps, genetics is also a factor.
Yup
True. With islanders there’s always good around especially at graduations, birthdays and other celebrations all the time.
Wrong on my last job. When I was stationed in the Middle East, I ate a lot of the same junk food that I had in America, yet I lost 12 lb. There's no excuse why a nation like America with the average person works out at least 3 days a week yet still averages about 20 lb overweight. Is the genetically processed food?
I lived there back in the nineties. The root cause is the abandonment of the traditional diet; taro, fish, vegetables and the introduction of corned beef, fast food, junk food and crap. I lived in Tonga too: same problem.
thank you for your opinion
It’s not the food, it’s the consumption of such food that is the problem.
Fast food and junk food is not bad per se, it just depends on how much you consume these foods on a daily,weekly,monthly and yearly basis.
An example, is what we Tongans term as Kai Pola or other festival celebrations that we have in tonga, birthdays, funerals, village days etc
To delineate personal responsibility to things like “colonisers and colonisation” is in my opinion lazy. You are personally responsible for the food you consume, you are also personally responsible of what you don’t consume. You make the choice of choosing the food you eat. If choose to eat fast food and junk food more often than you choose to eat healthier food, in this case traditional food, then the consequences of your choices will ultimately bear upon you.
We live in a society and in times where we have access to more knowledge and study behind foods that are beneficial and detrimental to our health and ultimately our bodies.
I don’t think there are any fast-food restaurants in tonga (Kfc, Maccas, hungry jacks/Burger King, dominoes, Pizza Hut, etc) but I do know there are restaurants in tonga that do sell and serve fast-food and junk food meals. However, it is expensive and rarely an everyday consumption type of delicacy.
This was such an insightful video though, I’m open to have my opinions challenged 🙌🏽
@@giancarlo2008 I sort of agree. I used to work for Futa Helu back in the early 90's (RIP) and used to attend the occasional Sunday feast after he and Keloni came back from church (that was Tonga, but Samoa was the same).
But let's not kid ourselves here: there's a huge nutritional difference between Umu food and a pile of grease served up late at night out of some mobile food stall.
I agree that self-control plays a part, but for a nation used to nutritious food, suddenly confronted with highly addictive fat and sugar, the outcome is fairly obvious. Exactly the same thing happened in the US.
@@billparrish9200 so what you’re saying is … The people who are obese today or who “fat” when measured by societal standards, are obese and fat because they where given sugar and fat food?
If that’s the point you’re raising here, I’m not sure on whether I agree with you on this point. Purely on the following facts:
1. Access of information: regarding almost every food there is on the market. There is information available and accessible publicly to everyone about food that is nutritional and beneficial for you and food that is unhealthy and detrimental for you.
Consumption: as I previously mentioned, consumption is there issue here. Like you said you’ve witnessed the Sunday after church feeds and you know how stacked and packed the tables be when Sunday feeds are on.
Exercise: there is not much push to encourage and motivate people to get up and get active. Now, I’ve seen a growing influence of people trying to encourage Tongans to get up and get active. But you can only do so much. Like the saying goes, you can lead an animal to water but you can’t force it to drink.
In my opinion, and I am open to being corrected, obesity is a combination of three things amongst many others … discipline and control.
If you can’t discipline yourself to watch what you eat, you won’t be able to control how much consume.
If you consume more than you exercise, than you will see the results from the type of food you’ve consumed.
@@giancarlo2008 There's a documentary here in CZcams called Fat Fiction. I highly recommend that EVERYONE watch it. It explains both Samoa and the US.
Love your Channel I am a Native American with Samoan roots. And this conversation can be used in our Native lands as well. Many of our people. Have the same health issues. I also use these videos to teach my little sister.
This is such great news. Thank you so much. Let us know if there is anything specific you would like us to cover.
Native american???
@@zenmasterbeats5068 the indigenous people of North and South America
@@zenmasterbeats5068 I think he meant hes from america. The land that the white men stole. They also suffer with diabetes. Many of them. Or he could be mexican because they refer themselves as native americans too
You ever been to the Pen my brotha?
My Samoan family are generally powerfully built and compact. I can see what she saying. Add to that a high fat, salty, processed diet introduced by foreigners will exacerbate conditions.
The same thing happened to Africans transported to America during colonial times and you can see the results today.
Soul food is high fat, salty, starchy food. Black people in America suffer from diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and obesity at a greater rate than the general public.
The only thing that can stem it is education on healthy eating habits and reprogramming ourselves.
I completely agree education is key.
@Ualeai Sekupe dont take my words out of context. I didnt say high fat.
@Ualeai Sekupe it says high fat, salty,starchy, and processed diet. Please quit tampering with my words with your foolishness. Why you insist on making strawman arguments when what I said is right in your face is silly and low character
I've been fasting and maintaining a proper diet for decades
High fat, salty, starchy processed foods which is the average American diet is destructive.
You keep name dropping like that makes you credible.
@Ualeai Sekupe rice, bread, and biscuits are high starch. You disagreed with me and agreed with me at the same time. Smh
Hey ive been obsercing ancient samoan way of life these past months and the culture which values respect, worship, sacredness and how to conduct yourself as in people know who you are by how you walk , sit stand ect.. very important as these seperate us from the world .. and we should be keeping these always
completely agree.
Hundreds of years ago the vast majority of people everywhere were thin and fit, whether the colonized or the colonizers. The modern ultra processed diet does no one any good
All I know is Samoan and Polynesian guys might be big guys but they're also extremely strong and athletic and make some amazing football players
But aren’t limited to just playing football
I think u mean rugby too
Yeah cause if ya get run into by one, it's be like getting run over by a JEEP Cheroke
Big and slow though, good for Oline only.
@@rksnote9635 there's a lot of linebackers and safety's that say otherwise
Why is anyone fat? Poor choices. I used to be over 300lbs now I’m 190 lean. Full blooded Samoan
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Colonizers?? Sounds like a load of BS. I'm Haitian American. Haiti was once colonized by the French. Haitian cuisine is a mixture of African, French, Taino Indian, and Arabic dishes. Haitian food tends to be very high in carbohydrates and sodium. Rice and starchy plantains are the most popular dishes in Haitian culture. Plus Haitians don't recognize portion control. Haitian parents will give an 8 yr old portion sizes meant for a 250lbs male adult. Haitians will tell a skinny person that they need to eat and put on weight. When that person gets fat then they mock them for being fat. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE CULTURE!!!!!
Haitians and Haitian Americans end up dealing with gout, circulation problems, hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, stroke, and heart attack due to the unhealthy Haitian cuisine that needs SEVERE MODIFICATIONS!!! However, talk to some Haitians about improving the cuisine to make it more healthy, they don't want to hear it. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE CULTURE!!!!!
I came from a family where we pretty well educated and health conscious. I have family members with diabetes, hypertension, cancer and other issues. So we always limited our fast food intake. However, we didn't learn till later on that all that rice, starchy plantains, and spaghetti in Haitian cuisine wasn't healthy for us. So we had to make adjustments. We had to learn to make Haitian cuisine, low carb. Now I will admit that I have gotten sloppy and cheated on my nutrition. That's how I ended up with prediabetes again. I BLAME MYSELF FOR HAVING NO DISCIPLINE AND SELF CONTROL!!!! Now I have to work on getting my blood sugar back to normal levels.
We as non-whites can't keep blaming European colonization for our health situations. White people didn't make me eat french fries, bread, pizza, rice, pasta, and gummy bears. I knew my family genetics, but I STILL CHOSE to indulge anyways. So Samoans and other Polynesians have to know that their food choices is killing them. Samoans that choose to break from the unhealthy mindset and eat more natural healthy foods, bravo for them. Samoans seeing the obesity, hypertension, and diabetes all around them, that still choose to indulge in the foods that's making them sick. They're digging their own graves.
thanks for sharing your experience
Coming from an American, who are also fat, we bring fast foods, processed foods, food fillers, canned meats etc. Heart disease is the #1 killer of Americans, English,Canada,France etc.
Yep
Not all Samoans are fat. Like any other race in the world. Things are not the same these days, compare to the Samoans in the past. We no longer be cutting down trees to carve canoes, like in the past, every family got to have a canoe some families have 3 or more. We also no longer be building faleo'o, faletele with all the materials we gather like woods (pou, o aso), roof materials, (su'ilau), weaving blinds (pola) floormat (aupolapola to papalaufala to falalili'i) we no longer be hunting wild boars. as life gets easier each day, and with less and less activities. The easy to get food, the all day watching tv, the more time on our phones, the softer your beds is, with the cars, even going for few yards, we nowadays prefer driving there than walking. This are some of the reasons why we are FAT. "E lelei le lapo'a malosi, ae leaga le puta ma'i" .
Ancient pacific sailers went through long famine in the open sea, so they evolved to have a very low metabolism to survive the long voyage on the ocean. Modern day Polynesian low metabolism combined with western processed foods causes them to be obese.
I'm Half-Samoan, I"m fat from eating too much fast food. I think most Americans are like that.
Yes western ways are making us all put on weight
It doesn't matter what you eat just eat less
ok
Look at photos of pre colonial Samoans lean and fit people. The poor diet did them in.
it sure did
Everyone was affected the same by westernized food supplies. Self discipline while eating and exercise is the difference between someone 175lbs and someone 350+. Cut sugar, cut processed carbs, that's the majority of the work right there.
Thanks for your opinion
The world is changing and so with our foods, everything is produced with high sugary and salty snacks, I visited our motherland 3 times in the past 10yrs and every time i visit Samoa there's a family member or friends i know in Samoa who had died from heart disease, kidney failure or cancer and its not getting any better....what really triggers all this is the amount of sugar that is put into their Soft drinks....I myself is a soft drink addict but I can taste the difference in what we drink in Australia compared to our people in Samoa. and i believe that Samoan soft drinks has 3 times sweeter than Australian standard soft drinks. I don't know if anyone had a closer investigation into our islands soft drinks. Diabetes and Heart disease is the 2 main killer in Samoa
Sugar is definitely a massive contributor
Sugar cane, sugar beets...
True that. Samoans eat super fatty foods. Samoans have great genetics they have great muscle mass however eating the super high fat + calories + more sedentary life equals = poor health. Back the old school, Live off of the fresh land of Samoa & Fresh Seafood.
we agree take it back to the ways of our ancestors
High fat diets without carbs = weight loss. High fat diets with carbs = obesity. Carbs/sugars are the root of the problem.
Samoans are good people no matter what
Thanks
1main reason is the quantity of the diet. Islanders will pack their plates to the sky with food and then complain about being fat ? Eat less eat better more exercise. Simple. Only small kids have their parents to blame if their over weight as they dont have a choice. Once your of age it's on YOU.
Thank you for your opinion
High caloric and high fatty foods are okay in moderation. Fatty cuts are fine in moderation. Carbs like taro are healthy and so are the rest of the root crops. Chinese people use a big portion of lard in their stir-fries yet, they're skinny. I think the issue is proportion. We all eat more portions than before.
My husband and I grew up skinny since we ate mostly organic food and were given 3 solid meals a day. Snacks were a small packet of chips or 3 pieces of biscuits with water.
Fast forward years later, our diet has changed. We have more options now, we snack all throughout the day ( chocolates, cakes, softdrinks, etc) and our meal proportions are bigger. My 10-year-old is 52kg and eats constantly. Whereas when I came to Oz, I was only 21 and weighed 41kg.
thank you for your opinion
So when they realized all these processed foods wasn't really healthy for them, why didn't they just go back to eating primarily fruits + vegetables?
That is the point of the video to encourage us to take on the ways of our ancestors and not the colonisers.
I think after being conditioned to doing something it becomes a habit and habits can be addictive and we all know food is addicting. Big drug
The lifestyle was different in the past. People had time to cook their food leisurely and to sit down and eat in a relaxed manner. Nowadays, everyone's busy. We all work and our kids go to school. By the time we go home, we're all exhausted and famished. We just want to cook our food in the fastest way possible. So we use a lot of processed foods as they're faster to cook.
@@matalaoatuitele7105 I agree
One big reason: Sugar.
I think the problem with Pacific Islanders in general is that we are genetically bigger then most other races. so when we do eat unhealthy foods we do get bigger faster then other races same goes for if we eat healthy and and keep fit we get bigger faster. So I think like what you said it depends on what we eat and if we are taking care of are body’s working out etc. This was a great video btw love from Fiji 🤙🏽🤙🏽🙏🙏
This is true, our Samoan bodies are built to live in times of starvation. Genetically we hold on to fat and store it because historically our ancestors were used to not eating as much and did not eat fatty or sugary foods. So when we eat all the fat and sugar it gets stored more because that is how our bodies are made.
Yeah, fat builds on muscle, and they have a shit load of muscle. Unhealthy diet amplifies it unfortunately
average height for Samoans is 5 and half foot, so you are small, but wide
True
@@paulmccray4055 that may be true for samoans living in samoan but definitely isn't true for samoans raised in the West in places like Australia,newzealend and The USA tend to be much taller than the average person as Im 6'2 even though I'm 14. As are many samoans in Sydney but this is just anecdotal evidence. I'm curious on the statistics of height disparities of people raised in samoan vs those raised in the West.
You cannot blame the past for current obesity. When you know what causes obesity you choose to eat it or not
eat it.you have had many years to reset ….. your explanation is an excuse.
Thank you for your opinion.
I’m Samoan but I’m not fat. It’s just a matter of training and keeping a balanced diet
I’m assuming there wasn’t much farming prior to colonization, and everyone ate food off the land and sea. Which would be more meats than plants. Believe it or not, those plant foods are very inflammatory and add to obesity. All the glucose and sugars… they are easily stored up as fat. Agriculture was a double edged sword for the human species.
Interesting
nah, natural sugars from plants are burned up easily when exercising or being active as the ancestors were.
So grateful for this 💜
Thank you
I can't stand these Hypocrites that bitch about calling his action but setting use electricity to the internet cars Modern Life basically
@@MeasinaSamoathe raisin a lot of these Polynesian people are fat is because people that could store fat better could survive the crossing of the oceans 10,000 years before the first white man came he has nothing to do with colonization it is genetics the people that could store fat better could survive the ocean Crossing on them crappy little brass and the people that couldn't died tell the people that live made it to the islands and had children can I pass that on to their children then this happened 15 2000 years ago long before the white man left Europe started colonizing colonization if you're going to use electricity and cars and you know the internet
Hi greetings from Europe I wish one day I visit you I love your culture and positive spirit ❤
I hope so too!
Samoan genetics cause them to be naturally hardy and badass. The Samoan people have pumped out some absolute freaking UNITS... Look up Konishiki, one of the most badass Sumo wrestlers of all time.
Don't get offended by it.
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She is so pretty..
Pure beauty!!!!
We really need this back
Thanks
didnt know about this. i think another thing could be the skeletal structure, in ancient samoa & tongan lands lotta the people were large warriors & natural selection probably selected the bigger stronger people with larger skeletal structures. larger skeletal structures means more area to fill out. i might be wrong tho. like roman reigns & the usos are quite big & muscular guys
Excellent video. Food is a weapon controlled and exported.
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Why are we fat?
First our body & muscle mass is larger so more for fat to cling too.
Pre colonisation on the Islands our diet was predominantly plant based with fish and sea food added to the variety of our simple foods.
Meat such as chicken and pork was a luxury not a daily thing.
Also our daily lives where there was more physical activity.
But since Western food choices arrived so did high sugar carb content in drinks, rice, canned food. The poor quality meat with high fat content exported to Samoa (corn beef,salted beef, beef flaps etc) our diet completely changed.
In the West it's worse. Though individual choices has alot to do with it. As does economics. Cheap food is fattening.
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thank you for agreeing with us
All these are true, but scientific major factor is Samoans (all Polynesians) have a gene that increases our body mass, it makes sense since us a whole were sea voyagers, increase body masses allowed us to survive the voyages
I lived with a Somoan Family, my friend Alvin was 7 Ft tall,thin but very wirery-strong. His father was the head of the American Samoan congregational church, which I attended, and saying Besse. One of the big reasons Symonne people are big is because of the taro root, which is high in hormones! That’s why they are one of the strongest race of people in the world. My friend would break a redwood fence pole with The edge of his hand, and I heard a swish, it turned into fibers like a broom! Such massive power. I was also friends with Rashiki The famous WWE Samoan wrestler. My brothers was friends of Matavia ”Superfly Snooka” Who is related to the rock Dwayne Johnson. I speak Samoan, and they invited me into their culture, I shared my Polynesian/Chinese kung fu system “Paka”, I use kindness and psychology, and taught them that they were so big and strong. They did not need to be angry and fight a lot because it was like fighting children, with kung fu, you don’t have to fight & you can remain humble. You’re a very pretty lady, don’t take things personal, I’m Basque, French, Spanish, and have tan skin and I’ve been through a lot of racial discrimination also. You just have to consider The source, there will always be ignorant people, and we have to pray for them because they do not know who we are! As far as I am concerned, you’re beautiful.
Just like Hawaii never see obese people in old photos
Right!
Spot on. Sounds like the Dine' and other First Nations in the US.
Yes colonialism has wreaked havoc even thousands of years after first contact smh
Your country wasn't really colonized now Hawaii I can say is truly colonized but you guys have your own culture you can follow your own ways
how can you not really be colonised? Are you talking about the time when Germany took over the country? or the time when Britain took over the country? Wait maybe the time when New Zealand took over and brought influenza that then killed thousands of Samoans? Or when Samoans were killed for protesting against the NZ rulers? Or when Samoan students were penalised for speaking Samoan in schools? Wait maybe it was when the Samoans were brainwashed into thinking their cultural traditions were evil and then brainwashed with Christianity?
It really doesn't matter what you eat...are you active enough? How big are the portions at a time? We need to move past the idea that "certain foods" are the enemy and look more towards the fact that it's all food...food has changed in a very big way in recent times but also, food portions and lack of activity could result in obesity. You can eat a donut or a couple of donuts a day, a big bowl of chili...but the culprit is when you let your food "sit"...no, don't let it sit and "digest"...get moving right away ( you don't have to do heavy weightlifting or exercises) but you do have to move your body (like going for a walk) never let your food settle. Now, there are other ways to help food digest and that's eating a few pieces of fruit like watermelon or some kind of melon or citrus fruit after a big meal or any meal and that speeds up digestion (I knew a Cambodian woman who would always eat fruit after quite of few servings of say "Chinese" food...and she just ate a few pieces of fruit and man she went back up to the buffet to get more...)I guess "yes" it does give you more room, but is that really necessary? Eat and be done..."get moving". That's the "not so secret" of keeping weight off.
thank you for your insights
I don't want to be rude but this is basically completely untrue. You can't out work a bad diet. Weight loss is like 5% exercise 95% diet. Carbs are the fattiest food you can eat (like bread, pasta, rice etc) If people just eat meat, fruit and veggies and hardly any added sugar, they would be shocked at how much weight they'd loose
All of the insight here is great, but the root cause has more to do with our heart our beginnings MuaMua our hearts where the birth of our people begins. Hence the term eat your heart out.. We eat to fill a huge void that I cannot even begin to describe on this tiny space in the comments. I will go deep on my page very soon.
Lol I'm cambodian. I remember I was 130 pounds. I would walk 3 hours a day and I did not lose weight.
@@kdchhy2252 wait=weight👍
Blaming colonization for obesity in Samoans back when there wasn’t access to the internet and information about nutrition makes sense I guess .At this point when everyone has a smartphone it’s just your choice to eat unhealthy and get fat.
Generational trauma is a real thing maybe you can use your smartphone to look it up 😊
@@MeasinaSamoa what does generational trauma have to do with obesity, please explain
@@noaspencer I pretty much explained it in the video
@@MeasinaSamoa I watched the entire video and I don’t think you did. Are you claiming that Samoans now don’t have proper education about nutrition? Seems all you did was blame colonizers the entire video
@@noaspencer I don't think you actually want to hear anything I have to say. You just want to push your thoughts on to me which I don't care for. When you have faced colonisation and can actually understand the full impacts it has on people then come back and have this conversation. Until then manuia lou aso!
WHY YOU DON'T SEE SAMOAN WOMEN WITH FOUNDATIONL AMERICAN BLACK MAN ,THE BLACK MAN HAS TO BE MIXED OR WHITE TO TALK TO A SAMOAN WOMEN
Thanks for sharing your opinion. I disagree.
My dad (who is Samoan) says that American Samoans are eligible for food stamps. Is that true?
American Samoans are eligible for food stamps as American Samoa are a US territory.
Thank you for starting the discussion. The topic is so complex, but you have to start the discussion somewhere. Malo le taumafai.
I agree very complex but all discussions need to start somewhere.
Im a samoan built black bald guy i love hawaian women never had one tho
Carbs activate insulin and insulin it’s the hormone that’s stored fat so do a low carb and will be good to go
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Ngl. Aren't there actual studies out there that suggests Samoan's retrain fat easier based on their DNA?
Which can make sense from an evaluationary perspective. Mainly because the Islands were not big enough for large cattle farming. People who were able to retain energy reserves (fat) easier were more likely to survive and pass on genes.
Also Samoans have a pretty rich warrior culture where tribal fighting were not uncommon, so being bigger and stronger meant you were also more likely to survive.
I reckon modern lifestyles and modern diet just play against Samoan genes, because there are definitely depictions of thin tribal Samoans, like most deceptions of tribal humans. But it's really apparent that even athletic Samoans are naturally husky and if they are ripped, they are still huge.
I also most Samoans I noticed don't look unhealthy, hell a lot I seen actually look strong and capable.
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Think genetics plays a big part on how yall put on weight.
Western food was introduced everywhere but yall put on weight more then others? Genetics.
She makes it sound like thy forced samoans to eat like that lol.
Thanks for your opinion
I love samoan woman there nothing wrong with bbw they are beautiful so don’t disrespect those woman.
Cool ok
Thanks for sharing love this topic
It is important
@@MeasinaSamoa nope just kidding
With their obesity problem, her shirt should read ID RATHER BE IN BUTTER
You’re hilarious 😂
Were Samoans essentially pescatarian?
I would think so as beef and lamb were brought in through colonisation. I am not sure about chickens and pigs though.
@@MeasinaSamoa pescatarian is so healthy. I've adopted the diet. I wish I could try taro
@@AfriPrincess411 taro is so good you should definitely try it
WHY DON'T SAMOANS WOMEN LIKE FOUNDATIONL AMERICAN BLACK MEN
Not all Samoan women have the same taste in men? Not all men are the same??
FACT'S BUT NEVER SEE A SAMOAN WOMEN WITH A RAY RAY NOT ALL BROTHERS IN THE HOOD ARE 🗑️.
Genetically bigger and have survival genes. Like turtles our body stores fat real well so we don’t die when starving. Now days we eat processed foods and imports from China Us & NZ which is real bad for us and changes our genes. Now Samoans look different from our ancestors who had more Tongan features.
thank you for this
@Ualeai Sekupe Samoans had mela features as well tenga brains. Fule’i mo alu Fia hoosi!
@Ualeai Sekupe lol de ufa. Malo lava.
@Ualeai Sekupe now our people look like fat sumo wrestlers. What I meant was our features were more alike to Tongans, Futunans etc….. aso nei ua sui uma foliga a le au Sam’s. Cultural mixing with Europeans, Asians, Papua & so forth.
eating imported food will do it to every native culture. Go back to your food culture roots
I agree
Genes I believe it look those foreigners eating only toasted bread two slice easy to get fat not unlike as Asians how many times we eat carbs a day? 3 times until we full plus desserts still skinny even we eat more rice and carbs
I just recently found out that a bowl of rice is the same carb intake as two slices of toast. So that actually could be a contributing factor.
Thank you for sharing ❤️
You are so welcome
Its all stereotypes they call all of us Latinos drug lords even thought because there has been cases but most of us aren't
Stereotypes are bad
I’m half Samoan and Samoa needs veganism…..
Samoa has veganism
You are right
Please let native america become king in his island.
all land should be returned to their indigenous owners.
Uhhhh TONS of places and people have been colonized and aren't known as being obese people so yea I think that's a bit of a silly stance
Shutup
Thanks for your opinion
Love from Ohio
Yay! Thank you.
Like you said "WE accepted it and WE took it on" ... western food has also been introduced in China, Japan, India, Russia, Phillipines ...The Whole World... The problem isn't just WHAT we are eating... It's HOW MUCH we are eating.
I love our people, our culture etc which is why I find this offensive as it portrays us as ignorant people who do not research for ourselves but will put anything in our mouth if a palagi says it's good for us.
When the Japanese government realized western food was creating an obesity problem they introduced legislation and regulations to control western food outlets and introduced programs in schools to teach children about healthy food choices.
Whether you are Samoan or not, if you are fat it is not because someone is "hammering" the idea that western food is good... It's because you're eating too much and not exercising enough.
I'm not being negative, I just think this mentality is biased and unhealthy.
I would never want to portray our Samoan people as being ignorant. The face that we would not work plantations when colonisers came and the fact that we were the first to become independent in the Pacific shows that we are a strong willed, prideful and intelligent people. The change that was made when colonisers arrived was a lack in value for our indigenous knowledge. This value moved to wanting what we didn't have, to becoming accustomed and in a way addicted to fatty, sugar filled foods. When we move overseas that value is kept in fatty foods that remind us of home. Sugary foods that make us feel like we are better than we were before. It is completely unhealthy and it is something that needs to be changed. We can't change a mindset of people if we don't first acknowledge that it is there.
idk i think yall are beautiful as is.....if it aint broke, dont fix it. personal choice. only love from FL
Also high blood pressure, kidney issues
Thanks Chrisstiana
I agree sis, and our food was completely different than it is today before our land was discovered by the others
So different!
باختصار ياكلون فوق حاجتهم زي العرب اجسامهم مو متعوده ع كمية السعرات اللي ياكلونها الوقت الحالي
I mean y’all were the greatest sea travelers of all time, and you need to have to store fat well to travel long distances.
right!
NO they were *NOT* there's quite easily a hundred + way ahead.
@@artair70 huh?
@@naeemsalemi1712 "y’all were the greatest sea travelers of all time"
@@artair70 I mean they were hella good at traveling with literally just little rafts traveling island to island and there is evidence of them coming to the America’s
Blaming Colonialism is an excuse to see what the real problem is. Samoans are obese because of food selection and the portion size.
Thank you for your opinion
I bet you live in australia
I bet you are correct
it's not because of colonisation! since colonisation it's been easier to find food and our people have become more and more lazy.our bodies used to store more energy that's one of the reasons why we're fat i'm not samoan but i'm a poly that's the same for us. We have to stop blaming the "white people", colonisation has had a lot of negative impact on our islands for sure, BUT there are also positive points: more food, easier life, and other things.
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It’s for all Polynesians
true
Not fat thick and beautiful
love this!
Wow I wanted to know why im frizzy headed and fat
Cool
Love Turkey tails! I put it in my greens.
they are yummy
Man . Sigh. * its in our genes to hold weight ahd gain rapidly wich i hate. Im not samoan. Im filipino. But born and raided in the island of Guam and trust me. . Being born in the island and living the island way . If u see me. You wouldnt think im filipino. 9 times outta 10 everyone thinks im samoan or tonga. And i love it . Kuzz i know fililinos are considered asians. Aghh! Fuck that i dont comsider myself one. Kuzz im not built like one. Lol big is beuatiful baby
Thank you for sharing
You are blaming abs making excuses.
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Im an American girl, but u kno what...
Samoans dont intend to get fat... They jus built
Those ppl are precious
thank you!
Why are they slow not dumb sorry for the term but have this wierd delay
Probably the same reason you are racist!?
I agree it's your choice to be fat and it's your decision to be fat and you can do something about your fatness that is all you
too much carb and sugar. no knowledge about nutrition.
possibly
My only excuse is taco trucks
mine is partly chocolate lol
Samoans aren't fat, we're big bone, denser bones.
Ok cartman lol
Dinosaurs are 'big boned' samoans are not...we're not special
I’m not satisfied with that answer…
Thanks for your point of view
Whats stopping you from starting today? Do you eat to tell me that in 2021 your still a slave to this thinking?
I think many are still slaves to this thinking. Breaking cycles doesn’t happen overnight. Our country was still colonised 60 years ago. That is many generations breaking down colonial systems and mindsets.
Nobody forces you to put a fork or a spoon up to your mouth and eat that's all on you or whether you want your way to be bigger or not or how you was raised I could see that happening but at some point where do you take personal responsibility
this is true no one forces you to eat.
Roman reigns is Somoan
Yes he is
And now you must go to gym or jogging for you body
Why?
My dream is to meet a skinny Samoan person
My dream is that people won't leave stereotypical comments on my videos.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 blame game🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You have a football player body
You look like a car
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Some Samoans are fat, the rest are natural BODYBUILDERZ n Biggest Hitters in Physical Sports etc. 😁🇼🇸👊
manaia
Genes
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Bull shit. Obesity is a relatively new thing (in the sense obesity was a rarity until recently) . Fat people are a drain on society in terms of finances, the tax payer has to pay for their health complications because they believe it’s natural to be fat or are just too lazy
@@yaqub2124 see how you didn't disprove what he said even tho he said a single word. Explain yourself in a civilized matter on why you don't think the obesity epidemic in samoan doesn't have anything to do with genetics in the slightest and give sources to your evidence.
@@logoutofmyaccountweirdo I don't owe anyone an explanation. If someone doesn't agree with me that is their choice. I don't have to force feed my thoughts on to them either. They chose to watch my video. I choose not to respond to opinions I don't agree with.
Thank you for your opinion
You a fine samoan now
faafetai lava