http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2001/06/shell-p1.htm

"The big killer in Kosrae—what some epidemiologists call New World
syndrome—is a constellation of maladies brought on not by microbes or
parasites but by the assault of rapid Westernization on traditional
cultures. Diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure—scourges of
affluence that long ago eclipsed infectious diseases as killers in the
West—have only recently appeared here."

"Rates of obesity and diabetes have skyrocketed around the globe, but
particularly among traditional peoples in transition—Polynesians, Native
Americans, and aboriginal Australians; Asian Indian emigrants to Fiji, South
Africa, and Britain; and Chinese emigrants to Singapore, Taiwan, and Hong
Kong."