Jim Brendon's work on highlights the traditional relationship and power structure involved with food production and consumption of the Samoan people. The author notes that globalization has lead to an "epidemic of obesity." This tend is very similar that that of the Miskito people of the Caribbean. The Samoan are still doing the same amount of work on their farms and fishing but are now selling the products to western markets. Traditional foods are still being consumed but are being supplemented with imported rice, flour and canned meats and often fast-foods which is having a negative health impact. Brendon notes that food production went up "more than 50-fold respectively between 1948 and 1980, while the population doubled." So like the Miskito who could feed the village with 10-12 turtles a week went up to a staggering 50-70 turtles with meat still being scarce. The power structure with emphasis on subsistence farming and traditional family and gender roles is being compromised while "individual property rights are overtaking communal rights and nuclear families are adopting a very western orientation in their production and consumption patterns."