What is the Waianae Diet and Its Traditional Hawaiian Roots?
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First designed in 1989, the Waianae Diet is a community-based health intervention program that emphasizes the traditional pre-Western contact Hawaiian diet to combat high rates of obesity and chronic disease. This eating pattern focuses on high-fiber, complex carbohydrates and low-fat whole foods. The program was developed at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center specifically for Native Hawaiians but has since garnered wider interest.
