Serving up a platter of health

“Even today, there are people who have the mindset of: ‘Why would I want to pay more for vegetables when I can have a chicken chop at a cheaper price,” says Dylan Lee, founder of Salad Atelier.

IT’S an alarming statistic. Over 54% of Malaysian adults are either overweight or obese, a sharp rise of nearly 10% since 2011, according to the National Health and Morbidity Survey (NHMS) 2023.

In 2014, a study by British medical journal, The Lancet, showed that Malaysia was the most obese country in Asia.