That country is Nauru, which saw the rate for men drop by 0.2 percent between 2010 and 2014. ... The main staples of the Nauruan diet are white rice, instant noodles, ...

Fat of the land: Nauru tops obesity league Pacific islanders say they're just born to be big, but new UN figures show an explosion of chronic diseases linked to high-fat diet ...

It notes that 'oddly, women smoke slightly more than men in Nauru (52.6 per cent to 51.7 per cent), which is somewhat of an outlier.' Spam is said to be one of the most popular products on the island ...

Tiny Nauru battles obesity. Island nation fights addiction to fast food and alarming rate of diabetes. ... Most of them are type-two diabetes, caused by a lack of exercise and poor diet. ...

Ruhi Çenet ventured to the tiny oval-shaped island country of Nauru, which is more than 1,800 miles north east of Australia. In a YouTube video detailing his trip, Ruhi discovers that the 8.1 ...

Many reasons have been given as to why Nauru tops the charts when it comes to obesity, but one factor above all reigns supreme: diet. Before exposure to the outside world, Nauruans had a diet that ...

Nauru is seeking to overturn the court order, ... according to the WTO. A poor diet, which relies heavily on imported processed foods, is blamed.

Nauru, which is situated about 3,000km north-east of Australia, is the smallest republic in the world and has a population of about 12,000 people. Image source, Getty Images.