Derek Stavarski's List: orang asli

In the ordinary way, a fisherman likes to have a cup of coffee and a biscuit as  a change from his meals at home, in a local coffee shop, where he can also have  a bought cigarette, and a chat with his men friends. But coffee and biscuits, or  rolls, are only the special foods, and in spite of the availability of Indian  baked bread, for ordinary diet the Malay sticks to his  rice.

As the Health Officer remarked, the loss of fat would probably be made up by fat  used in cooking, but the loss of nearly one-third of the protein, two-thirds of  the iron, and nearly all the calcium and phosphorus is serious

The solution of this problem is far from simple, as can be seen from the  difficulty which has been encountered in an attempt to popularise white bread in  our own more enlightened and diet-conscious country