The chapter in this section addresses the common food practices, related health conditions, and nutrition counseling considerations of Native Hawaiians and many Pacific Islanders who live in the US, including Hawaiʻi, and in US territories and freely associated states in the Pacific Islands. These islands span the North and South Pacific Ocean region known as Oceania.
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ceania, the collective name for the vast region of the Pacific Ocean, is viewed traditionally as several :
• Australia and New Zealand, which includes Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Coral Sea Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, and Norfolk Island, and
• Pacific Island regions of Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia, which are often grouped by their north, south, or western loca- tion in the Oceania region of the Pacific. Te Hawaiian Islands are in Polynesia. Hawaiʻi and the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands (USAPI) are discussed in Chapter 5.
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