It's a policy that boosted airline profits by 20 percent and helped changed the look of an island with the world's highest obesity rate. Is Samoa Air's new pay-by-weight system the future of air travel? Plane travel by the pound? Samoa Air says charging passenger's by weight is payin...
Samoa Air, the tiny local airliner in American Samoa, sparked a controversy by charging passengers by their weight. Since then it's helped change the look of an island with the world's highest obesity rate. Ben Tracy reports.
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The American Samoans and Samoans have a very high rate of obesity, 84% in women and 78% in men in America Samoa; and 59% for women and 29% for men in Samoa. The American Samoans have taken on a modern lifestyle and diet while the Samoans remain traditional in their lifestyle and ...
SamoaFood SecurityHungerValidationObesityChildhoodMeasuring food security accurately has implications for policies and programming designed to address both hunger and obesity risk among children. We aimed to examine the validity of the Latin American and Caribbean Food Security Scale (ELSCA) for use in ...