THE RELATIONSHIPS of ethnicity, father's occupation, sex and respondent's academic major with nutritional health knowledge were studied on a sample of Malaysian teachers using a self-administered questionnaire. Results indicated that the level of nutritional health knowledge is low and dependent on sex but not on ethnicity, respond ent's academic major and father's occupation. The need for males and physical education majors to improve their levels of nutritional health knowledge is indicated.
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