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Effects of environmental variables on food consumption
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Exploring fast food consumption behaviours and social influence.
There has been an increase in the consumption of convenience-style foods. This change has occurred concurrently with a global rise in obesity rates which has led to some researchers blaming the increased consumption of ‘big brand’ fast foods (such as McDonald’s) for expanding waistlines. …
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Vegetarian Dietary Patterns: Mortality, Colorectal Cancer, and Food Consumption
… potentially important differences in the food consumption patterns of these diets. Design Baseline diet was measured by a quantitative food frequency questionnaire among more than 96,000 Seventh-day Adventists in the US and Canada, enrolled from 2002-2007. Dietary patterns were defined, …
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Eatopia: aesthetic spaces of collective food consumption in contemporary art
… Rirkrit Tiravanija and Jennifer Rubell offer food and sociability both literally and metaphorically. By inviting exhibition visitors to eat meals in specially conceived spaces within art galleries, both artists encourage participatory modes of spectatorship and challenge the social norms that …
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Influence in decision-making: perspectives of adolescent ethical food consumption
… on how adolescents attempt to influence ethical food decision-making and consumption choices in their families. The study explores family microenvironment and the implications they might have for our existing understanding of family consumption. Although many studies have examined adolescents’ …
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Correlates of soy food consumption in Adventist Health Study-2
… about the health benefits and risks of soy consumption but very little is known about who the consumers are. Most of what is known has been observed mainly in Asian populations who consume high levels of soy. Very little is known about soy food intake in the western population who typically …
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Food Consumption, Food Cash Dependency, and Food Policy in Indonesia
… were also very dependent on cash for acquiring food. Most agricultural economists concerned with less developed countries have long assumed that rural households produced most of the food they consumed. This study found that among the 1183 rural households surveyed in Eastern Java, the lowest …
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Food Consumption Similarities and Differences for Two Types of Jamaican Households
… and how these households differed in their food consumption patterns. This study collected data from two focus groups and 102 survey respondents from the cities of Pembroke Pines, Miramar and Lauderdale Lakes in South Florida. The two types of households were those with Jamaicans married to …
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LIFESTYLE CHOICES RELATED TO FOOD CONSUMPTION AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO DEPRESSION
… oneself to small amounts or particular kinds of foods on the basis of health, spirituality, lifestyle, and moral decisions, is a practice that dates to 1066 A.D. However, with social media being as influential as it is, one might believe dieting is a new obsession or at least an obsession to …
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Genetic analyses of food consumption in growth selected lines of chickens \
… In contrast, a comparable restriction of water consumption resulted in a similar (10%) depression of body weight among both high-weight line and cross chicks. The effect of feed and water restriction on feed:water ratios was dependent upon mating type. The amount of feed introduced into the crop …
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Reflecting on Racial Microaggressions: The Impact on Food Consumption in Minority Women
… about a racial microaggression resulted in the consumption of more food by the thinking group. Emotional eating, but not cognitive reappraisal or emotion suppression, interacted with condition such that those who scored higher on emotional eating and who were in the thinking group ate …
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Household economies of scale, food consumption and intra-household allocation of time
… A “paradox” arises when the budget share of food declines with household size in the consumer expenditure survey data contradicting the Barten model prediction that per capita food consumption should increase with household size. I test the Barten model in the expenditure data from the U.S., …
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Health uncertainty and food consumption in low-income households in Lima, Peru
… the relationships between health uncertainty and food consumption among low-income households in developing countries. The particular sample households are from Lima, Peru's bottom expenditure quartile. Several food and nonfood inputs are important factors affecting health status and health …
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An analytic model of the food consumption behavior of health-conscious individuals
Evidence of changing patterns of food consumption behavior is presented. Previous attempts at explaining these changes are critically reviewed and the need for an alternate approach is identified. A model of consumer behavior in which utility from food consumption is maximized subject to outlay for …
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Rate of Food Consumption of Acris Crepitans Blanchardi Harper in South-Central Iowa
The problem. The relationship between food consumption and seasonal activity was not known for Acris crepitans blanchardi Harper, Blanchard's cricket frog, nor had the rate of food passage through the stomach of this species been calculated. This study determined these factors and calculated a …
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Effects of Food Consumption on Cell Proliferation in the Brain of Python regius
… specific dynamic action (SDA) response after food intake with an increase in metabolic rate that facilitates processing the meal. Associated with this change in SDA, pythons (Python spp.) also exhibit impressive plasticity in their digestive and cardiovascular physiology due to the sheer …
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Food consumption in the United States in 1940 compared with that of 1900
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive.
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