Nauru is a remote island in the Pacific Ocean (Image: Ruhi Cenet via YouTube)
is a tiny island country in the Micronesia, part of the Oceania region in the Central Pacific.
The microstate is the least visited country in the world with around only 200 people visiting Nauru each year. Whilst this isolated island is fairly unknown acrosss the world, it is recognised for one thing.
Naruru is considered the in the world due to its high rates of obesity and overweight people.
The estimated that 94.5% of Nauruans are overweight or and within that percentage it over 70% are obese.
Ruhi Cenet who travels to “hard-to-reach place” took a trip to Nauru and documented his experience sharing the video with his 12 million YouTube subscribers.
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Most of the foods in shops are processed foods imported from overseas (Image: Ruhi Cenet via YouTube)
He explains how in 1975 Nauru had the highest GDP per capita in the world thanks to its phosphate mining income and small population.
However, the mining had left the land on the island to the point that no vegetables or fruit can grow, resulting in fatty and prosessed foods being what the population mainly consume.
“When miners uprooted the trees and excavated the fertile soil all living organisms were harmed. It’s neither suitable for agriculture nor construction and Naurans are suffering dire consequences of this problem,” says Ruhi.
The landscape which is made up of deep pits and limestone peaks makes it near impossible for farming which is why as show in the YouTube video, the shop shelves are lined with tinned food imported from overseas.
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Mining on the island has made the land unsuitable for agriculture to grow (Image: Getty)
And it’s not that the island is completely rid of vegetables or healither foods but it is actually considered “a luxury to have fresh fruits and vegetables” and that’s because of the extortionate prices.
In the store that Ruhi visits a head of cauliflower is priced at AUD $18.59 (£9.37) whilst a whole watermelon costs a whopping AUD $61 (£30.76).
He continues to explain that foods consumed by many of the locals are “meat products that western countries refuse to sell to their own people” and that these parts of the animal are “75% pure fat”.
Nauran health authorities have worked to develop measures to reduce obesity including advising people to walk around the three mile perimeter of the Nauru International Airport. Exercise sessions and sports are also reguarly organised for the population.