Asian Students Change their Eating Patterns After Living in the United States

Pan, Yi-Ling; Dixon, Zisca; Himburg, Susan P.; Huffman, Fatma

doi:10.1016/s0002-8223(99)00016-4

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“…The less acculturated used smaller amounts of fat and oil when cooking products such as tortillas, than highly acculturated and non-Hispanics. Similarly, significant increases were observed by Pan et al (1999) in Asian students' consumption of fats, salty and sweet snack items, and dairy products. There were also significant decreases in the consumption of meat and meat alternatives, and vegetables.…”

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“…Immigrants to the UK from South Asia ate significantly fewer meals than those from Europe; the former also eating their evening meal 2-3 hours later (Simmons and Williams, 1997). Asian students in the United States, who had been there at least 3 months before the start of their studies, reported the number of meals per day decreased with nearly half of them missing breakfast more often than the other two meals, primarily because of their class timetables (Pan et al, 1999).…”

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A taste of the unfamiliar. Understanding the meanings attached to food by international postgraduate students in England

2010

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Using findings from semi-structured interviews with international postgraduate students in England, this paper explores the meanings attached to the food they eat in a new culture. Our study, using interviews, aimed to uncover student responses to both the food they eat whilst abroad and to the food they have left behind.Many students criticised local English food as bland, fattening, and unhealthy; nevertheless, most showed an openness to new foods, trying not only local food but also dishes prepared by their international friends, but this sat alongside a strong attachment to their home country dishes. Eating together was a popular leisure activity, and food of the origin country or region was the most popular cuisine. Eating home country food offered emotional and physical sustenance; students felt comforted by familiar taste, and that their physical health was stabilised by the consumption of healthier food than was available locally. Despite acknowledgement of the importance of food to cultural identity and overall quality of life in the anthropology and nutrition literatures, there is a dearth of research into this aspect of the international student experience; this study, therefore, marks an important beginning.

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2010

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“…It is well documented that migrants, on immigrating to a new country, often find it difficult to maintain their traditional eating habits, with traditional foods often being difficult to find (Pan et al, 1999) and more expensive than Western equivalents (Sharma et al, 1999). Dietary changes are related to length of exposure to the new environment, ability of immigrants to speak or read the new language and extent of social contact with people of the new culture (Lee et al, 1999;Pan et al, 1999). It has also been observed that younger immigrants tend to change their food habits more readily than older immigrants (Lee et al, 1999;Pan et al, 1999;Sharma et al, 1999).…”

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“…Dietary changes are related to length of exposure to the new environment, ability of immigrants to speak or read the new language and extent of social contact with people of the new culture (Lee et al, 1999;Pan et al, 1999). It has also been observed that younger immigrants tend to change their food habits more readily than older immigrants (Lee et al, 1999;Pan et al, 1999;Sharma et al, 1999).…”

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The impact on eating habits of temporary translocation from a Mediterranean to a Northern European environment

Papadaki

Jordan

2002

Eur J Clin Nutr

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Objective: To assess the effect of temporary translocation from a Mediterranean to a Northern European environment on the eating habits of a group of foreign students. Design: Cross-sectional survey of eating habits before and after moving from Greece to Glasgow, Scotland. Setting: University of Glasgow. Subjects: Eighty post-graduate Greek students. Interventions: A self-administered questionnaire comprising of three major sections: (1) general eating habits; (2) frequency of eating selected food items; (3) opinion of food availability in Glasgow. Results: After moving to Glasgow, significant decreases were reported in the frequency of consuming fresh fruit, raw vegetables, fish, legumes, meat, poultry and fresh fruit juice. The frequency of eating biscuits, savoury snacks, soft=fizzy drinks, alcoholic drinks and mayonnaise, dips and sauces increased. The estimated median daily consumption of fruit and vegetables decreased from 363 g in Greece to just 124 g in Glasgow, well below the Scottish and WHO dietary target of 400 g=day. The main perceived barriers to maintaining customary eating habits were the price of food, the lack of familiar tastes, the greater availability of convenience food and the limited variety of food available in Glasgow, when compared to Greece. Conclusions: These findings highlight the difficulties that migrant populations face in retaining traditional, often healthier, eating habits when migrating to a foreign country. Barriers of high cost, limited availability and poor quality of familiar foods, need to be addressed in order for migrants to maintain their customary eating patterns. Furthermore, these barriers need to be addressed before nutritionists can expect to see the widespread adoption of the Mediterranean diet by Western populations less familiar with this eating pattern.

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Do environmental factors drive obesity? Evidence from international graduate students

Katare

Beatty

2018

Health Economics

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International students offer a unique window into the role environmental factors play in driving obesity. Naïve estimates of the relationship between environmental factors and obesity are often plagued by reverse causation, sample selection, and omitted variable bias. In this study, we survey international students at 40 public universities across the United States. We use this unique data to link the weight gain of international students to the prevalence of obesity where they live. We argue that our estimates are less likely to be biased as international students have limited control over the environment to which they are exposed upon arrival in the United States. We find that students living in areas with a higher prevalence of obesity show a biologically important and statistically significantly greater increase in weight as compared to those living in areas with a lower prevalence of obesity. Results provide cautious evidence that environmental characteristics of a region can affect the weight gain of individuals.

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Asian Students Change their Eating Patterns After Living in the United States

Cited by 171 publications

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A taste of the unfamiliar. Understanding the meanings attached to food by international postgraduate students in England

A taste of the unfamiliar. Understanding the meanings attached to food by international postgraduate students in England

The impact on eating habits of temporary translocation from a Mediterranean to a Northern European environment

Do environmental factors drive obesity? Evidence from international graduate students

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