Concepts relating to health and food held by Chinese women in London

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Abstract
In classical Chinese literature, foods are conceptualised within the framework of the “hot‐cold” system. A survey of 50 Hong Kong families, now settled in London, showed that the women of these families hold to a simplified and pragmatic version of these concepts, at the same time making use of some English foods and developing ways of counter‐balancing the expected effects on their children of eating English foods. They have also developed varying ideas about ethnic differences in food requirements. These are discussed in relation to government provision of health and education services to minority groups.