Dietary practices in nutritional transition: the case of Malaysian urban Chinese

• Main Authors: Khor, Geok Lin, Hsu-Hage, Bridget Huey Huey, Wahlqvist, Mark L.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Overseas Publishers Association 1998
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51329/1/51329.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/51329/; http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03670244.1998.9991532

In this study involving 336 urban Chinese adults, more than 40% belong to at least the second generation in Malaysia. The result shows the persistence of several Chinese traditional dietary habits. Almost all the subjects take rice daily and an assortment of noodles weekly. A wide variety of vegetab...