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How Nauru's mining boom changed what its people ate

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Forget the tropical island diet of fresh fish and coconuts. After decades of strip-mining their own island for phosphate, the wealthy residents of Nauru lost their arable land and started importing highly processed Western food. Now, over 70 percent of the population is clinically obese, proving that the modern diet ruins absolutely everywhere it touches.

How Nauru's mining boom changed what its people ate
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