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From:Journal of Nutrition and MetabolismPeer-ReviewedA healthy diet is of particular concern throughout the life of women to avoid many chronic illnesses especially during their 30s to 50s. There are published data on dietary quality and its determinants among women, but...
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From:Journal of Pakistan Medical Association (Vol. 62, Issue 2)Byline: Mohammad Yawar Yakoob Madam, South Asia today is at crossroads. More than half (55 percent including injuries) of the disease burden is now attributable to non-communicable or chronic diseases like heart...
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From:Learning Disability Practice (Vol. 14, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSummary A weight reduction club for people with learning disabilities helped participants to each lose 5.9kg on average over a 12-month period. In this article Jeff Bartley describes how the club was set up and the...
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From:European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Vol. 62, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedObjective: To describe the association between alcohol beverage preference and dietary habits comparing wine drinkers with other alcoholic beverage drinkers and with nondrinkers in Spanish university graduates....
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From:The Texas Journal of Science (Vol. 56, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAbstract. -- This east Texas study was undertaken to determine the importance of seeds of forbs, grasses, and woody shrubs to songbirds wintering in young pine plantations which had been established utilizing the...
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From:Australian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics (Vol. 58, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedLouise A. Baur Botticelli's painting of The birth of Venus depicts one of the myths of the origin of the goddess. This wonderful work of art shows her emerging, fully formed, from the sea--she stands upon a large...
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From:Family Economics and Nutrition Review (Vol. 13, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedBissonnette, M.M. and Contento, I.R. 2001. Adolescents' perspectives and food choice behaviors in terms of the environmental impacts of food production practices: Application of a psychosocial model. Journal of...
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From:Proceedings of the North Dakota Academy of SciencePeer-ReviewedDietary arsenic (As) is thought to have a physiological role in methionine (Meth) metabolism (1). Some findings suggest that arsenic may be important in the remethylation of homocysteine to methionine. There are two...
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From:Urban Studies (Vol. 39, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedSummary. If poor food retail access in deprived areas of British cities is linked, as suggested in many of the policy debates of the late 1990s, via compromised diets/undernutrition to poor health and widening health...
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 100, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedWhile messages abound telling us to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables each day, the average American eats only three and a half servings. [1] Though people give many reasons for this, most of the barriers they...
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From:Education (Vol. 120, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEvidence is mounting that in several respects people in the world are becoming healthier, however, a substantial number of people around the world continue to experience Increasing prominence of morbid diseases, and see...
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From:SemeiaPeer-ReviewedABSTRACT The early Christians and rabbinic Jews who composed the accounts of the Last Supper and the Passover seder both used the conventions of Greco-Roman symposium literature to ritualize their foundation myths....
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From:Science (Vol. 237) Peer-ReviewedHuman Aging: Usual and Successful RESEARCH ON AGING HAS EMPHASIZED LOSSES. IN THEabsence of identifiable pathology, gerontologists and geriatricians have tended to interpret age-associated cognitive and physiologic...
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 91, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedClinical dietitians use food records (a listing of the foods that a patient eats) to evaluate nutritional adequacy. However, there is concern about the accuracy of self-reported food records. Errors in food records often...
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 89, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedExtreme concern with weight gain during college years has been reported (1) but not verified empirically Short-term fat gain has been observed among subpopulations of college women with low meal frequency (2). Others...
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 89, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedChange of any kind is difficult. Though most people know that dietary change may reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer, as well as contribute to weight loss, few individuals make long-term changes....
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From:Journal of the American Dietetic Association (Vol. 95, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA survey of 1,046 Hispanic low-income women and their children was conducted to determine the kinds of food eaten and their contribution to the respondents' nutrition and energy requirements. Nutrition requirements...
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From:Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Vol. 2, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article provides a fresh account of the Javanese slametan, or ritual meal, often said to be at the heart of Javanese popular religion. It shows how people of diverse ideology come together in ritual and, while...
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From:Journal of Folklore Research (Vol. 53, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThrough his writings opposing cruelty to animals and his vision of a utopian society infused with equality, social justice, and spirituality that begins with an individual's diet, the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedMY WILD GRACE AND I SHIFT on my right hip. We perch there and tilt towards the airplane window, considering the possibility that I have swallowed an anvil in my daydream. Camera light on my cheeks, red liner sealing...