Hi, Jeff. As a child and adolescent psychiatrist (I met you at the recent 10-day program), I know that eating disorders really took off in the early 1980's. After listening to your talks, I noticed that this was the same time that the standard American diet changed in such an unhealthy direction. I also know that eating disorders took off in Fiji in the early 1990s when western TV came to the islands. The usual interpretation is that exposure to a thin western body image as ideal affected the young girls and encouraged dieting and then anorexia. I wonder if western processed and packaged foods also came to Fiji at that time.
I would like to find out when western food arrived in Fiji, to see whether it might have been the food, rather than the TV images, which led to more eating problems. Could you direct me to any resources which might have that information?
All the best,
Larry