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Zou, Ping (Zou, Ping.) | Ba, Dong (Ba, Dong.) | Luo, Yan (Luo, Yan.) | Yang, Yeqin (Yang, Yeqin.) | Zhang, Chunmei (Zhang, Chunmei.) | Zhang, Hui (Zhang, Hui.) | Wang, Yao (Wang, Yao.)

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Background: Chinese immigrants are an integral part of Canadian and American society. Chinese immigrants believe diet to be an important aspect of health, and dietary behaviours in this population have been associated with changes in disease risk factors and disease incidence. This review aims to summarize the characteristics of the dietary behaviours of Chinese immigrants and the associated influencing factors to better inform individual, clinical, and policy decisions. Methods: This scoping review was written in accordance with PRISMA guidelines. MEDLINE, PsychINFO, CINAHL, AgeLine, ERIC, ProQuest, Nursing and Allied Health Database, PsychARTICLES, and Sociology Database were utilized for the literature search. Articles were included if they explored dietary or nutritional intake or its influencing factors for Chinese immigrants to Canada or the United States. Results: A total of 51 papers were included in this review. Among Chinese immigrants in Canada and the United States, the intake of fruits and vegetables, milk and alternatives, and fiber were inadequate against national recommendations. Chinese immigrants showed increased total consumption of food across all food groups and adoption of Western food items. Total caloric intake, meat and alternatives intake, and carbohydrate intake increased with acculturation. Individual factors (demographics, individual preferences, and nutritional awareness), familial factors (familial preferences and values, having young children in the family, and household food environment), and community factors (accessibility and cultural conceptualizations of health and eating) influenced dietary behaviours of Chinese immigrants. Discussion and Conclusion: Efforts should be undertaken to increase fruit, vegetable, and fibre consumption in this population. As dietary acculturation is inevitable, efforts must also be undertaken to ensure that healthy Western foods are adopted. It is important for healthcare providers to remain culturally sensitive when providing dietary recommendations. This can be achieved through encouragement of healthy ethnocultural foods and acknowledgement and incorporation of traditional health beliefs and values into Western evidence-based principles where possible.

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Canada Chinese diet immigrants influencing factors review United States

Author Community:

  • [ 1 ] [Zou, Ping]Nipissing Univ, Sch Nursing, 222 St Patrick St,Suite 618, Toronto, ON M5T 1V4, Canada
  • [ 2 ] [Ba, Dong]McMaster Univ, Fac Hlth Sci, 1280 Main St West, Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8, Canada
  • [ 3 ] [Luo, Yan]Xi An Jiao Tong Univ, Fac Nursing, Hlth Sci Ctr, 76 Yanta West Rd, Xian 710061, Peoples R China
  • [ 4 ] [Yang, Yeqin]Wenzhou Med Univ, Sch Nursing, Chashan Higher Educ Pk, Wenzhou 325035, Peoples R China
  • [ 5 ] [Zhang, Chunmei]Wenzhou Med Univ, Sch Nursing, Chashan Higher Educ Pk, Wenzhou 325035, Peoples R China
  • [ 6 ] [Zhang, Hui]Guizhou Prov Peoples Hosp, Dept Cardiol, Guiyang 550002, Peoples R China
  • [ 7 ] [Wang, Yao]Cent South Univ, Xiang Ya Sch Nursing, Changsha 410013, Peoples R China

Reprint Author's Address:

  • P. Zou;;School of Nursing, Nipissing University, Toronto, 222 St. Patrick Street, Suite 618, M5T 1V4, Canada;;email: pingz@nipissingu.ca;;Y. Wang;;Xiang Ya School of Nursing, Central South University, Changsha, 410013, China;;email: yao.wang@csu.edu.cn;;

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NUTRIENTS

Year: 2022

Issue: 10

Volume: 14

5 . 7 1 7

JCR@2020

ESI Discipline: AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES;

ESI HC Threshold:5

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SCOPUS Cited Count: 3

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