By recommending higher taxes on unhealthy foods and speaking out against a major fast food company, T Alafia Samuels has emerged as a leading figure in the fight against obesity in the Caribbean. Despite producing a disproportionately high number of the world’s finest athletes—as seen most recently at the 2016 summer Olympic Games—the region also has some of the world’s highest obesity rates. Samuels, who was recently appointed director of the Chronic Disease Research Centre (CDRC) at the University of the West Indies in Barbados, has a prime platform from which to appraise and tackle the issue.

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阿拉菲亚·塞缪尔斯（Alafia Samuels）：加勒比海地区的快餐监管机构

通过建议对不健康食品征收更高的税费并与一家主要的快餐公司抗衡，T Alafia Samuels成为了加勒比地区抗击肥胖的领军人物。尽管产生了不成比例的世界上最优秀的运动员（正如最近在2016年夏季奥运会上看到的那样），但该地区的肥胖率也是世界上最高的。塞缪尔斯最近被任命为巴巴多斯西印度群岛大学慢性病研究中心（CDRC）的主任，他拥有一个评估和解决这一问题的主要平台。