There are calls for price controls on widely available processed products in the Pacific.
The foods include high-fat Kiwi corned beef, biscuits and sugary soda.
Imported processed food inundate supermarket shelves in the Pacific, while junk food adverts even appear at school.
“There's a consensus here that there's a crisis when it comes to non-communicable diseases as a result of poor diet in the Pacific Islands,” Associate Professor Dr Jacqui Webster, from the George Institute For Global Health, told Newshub.