. >> professor kumar henry is from shrilanka, based at oxford university, he was head hunted by a research facility two years ago. today, his research is focused on the asian physique. >> we want you to be doing some typing and sitting and standing on the chair. >> this equipment measures the total calorie consumption of the body. measuring the room's oxygen concentration allows it to calculate the calories consumed by the person inside. >> when he is started to exercise, then the expenditure has gone up and then after a while, it will come down, and then it goes up again, because he has done two sets of exercises and jumping quite a lot. given in u.s. and europe, nobody is doing work on nutrition among asian people. asian people metabolic response to food is different. so this is why we in singapore want to do research on nutrition amongst asians, because this is an asian problem and we need to resolve it from asian research and this is why our focus is on asian foods, for asian peel, by asian people, so it can be advantage to the asian population. >> with a population of 4 billion, huge