The nutrition of Malaysian aboriginal children
Open Access
- 1 January 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 26 (1) , 95-100
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/26.1.95
Abstract
Anthropometric measurements suggest that Malaysian aboriginal children aged from 5 to 10 years, living in the jungle on a diet obtained from shifting cultivation and hunting, are apparently as well nourished as urban children in Malaysia.Keywords
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