From Healthy to Not ~ Blog Post #4 ~ April 19 by Maggie Purtell

The native Hawaiian diet was quite healthy. They mainly ate poi and any other fish or land animals they could hunt. Native Hawaiians were very fit and known by many to have a great died. Although healthy, the upper classes still had a better and more options for the food in their diet. An interesting twist on native diet is that the women were the hunters and the men cooked unlike the traditional way that the women cooked while men earned.

The current diet in Hawaii is known as the “local” diet. This cuisine is multicultural diet because of Hawaii’s many immigrants. In Hawaii the obesity rate has spiked because more fatty foods are becoming the norm. The obesity rate used to be low compared to the country but now it is very high. Many Hawaiians have a hard time getting to the grocery stores to buy healthy food because of subpar public transportation.

The shift in Hawaiian diet is much the same as the shift in the rest of the United States. Obesity rates have been growing in recent years. Hawaii may be worse than the rest of the states; however, I believe that Hawaiians can turn their diet around. They used to be so healthy and if they return to their roots of hunting lean fish and animals, they could become more fit again.

Kennedy, Brittany. "Hawaiian "Local Food" Diet Compared to Traditional Native Hawaii Diet." HubPages. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Apr. 2015.