Sentences with phrase «human feeding behaviors»

Liang thinks rats make better models of human feeding behaviors than mice because rats are bigger mammals and eat significantly more than mice, making it easier to measure their food intake.

«Human feeding behaviors involve areas of the brain responsible for cognitive control and decision - making,» said Christos S. Mantzoros, MD, Director of the Human Nutrition Unit in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism at BIDMC and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Not exact matches

Her admiration for [her brothers» fiction], her interest in human behavior,... her moral intensity and love of elegance, jokes, puns, ludicrous situations, ironic remarks and even her delight in accurate language and in the touching impossibilities of popular fiction were fed by her brothers» Oxford journal.

From La Leche League's website, «Research has shown that healthy, full - term breastfeeding infants have a remarkable ability to regulate their own milk intake when they are allowed to nurse «on cue» and that mothers» rates of milk production are closely related to how much milk their babies take... Human beings have survived and flourished because mothers have met these needs by responding freely to their babies» cues and behavior, particularly their feeding behaviors.»

The low calorie composition of human breast milk (exquisitely adjusted for the human infants» undeveloped gut) requires frequent nighttime feeds, and, hence, helps explain how and why a cultural shift toward increased cosleeping behavior is underway.

For new mothers who still don't get the message, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has come up with a more strident approach: a breast - feeding awareness campaign that equates failure to breast - feed with risky behaviors like smoking and drinking during pregnancy.

By analyzing shark scavenging behavior, the University of Florida's C.A. Pound Human Identification Laboratory identified which marks were left behind by sharks, what species of sharks made the marks and where the feedings might have occurred.

Behaviors that evolved as survival mechanisms to ensure that an animal feeds itself become inconvenient and potentially detrimental side effects in industrialized human populations where cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity, rather than starvation, pose greater risks to long - term survival.

«Military sonar can alter blue whale behavior: Human - made noises cause ocean giants to move away from feeding spots.»

The belief was so ingrained that paleoanthropologists and others investigating human evolution figured that if they saw molar eruption in the fossilized skull of a young human ancestor, they'd assume they knew the age and feeding behavior.

«The coupling of these two models is predicated on the assertion that climate change drives changes in extreme events, extreme events interact with human perception of risk to influence emissions behaviors and emissions behaviors then feed back into climate change, leading to a fully interacting model.»

Mice can be used to establish causality for genetic variations that influence feeding behavior and how those variations may apply to the human condition.

The implication, of course, is that feeding behavior should be subject to the «laws of learning,» in humans as well as mice.

Classical conditioning is a learning process that occurs both in animals and humans alike when two stimuli are repeatedly paired (such as the bell ringing and the feeding, or a particular behavior and the electric shock), so that the response originally elicited by the second stimulus (the secretion of saliva that originally occurs in the presence of food or the unpleasant sensation that follows an electric shock) is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone (meaning that after a number of repetitions, the sound of the bell is enough to make the dog salivate like it does in the presence of food and the engagement in unwanted behavior is enough to make you feel the same discomfort an electric shock would cause).

Serotonin — also known as the happiness chemical — has long been known to contribute to feeding behavior (meaning the amount, what, and when we eat) in humans because of its activity in response to the appearance, smell, and taste of food.

The evolution of the human diet over the past 10,000 years from a Paleolithic diet to our current modern pattern of intake has resulted in profound changes, not only in our in feeding behavior, but our overall health.

Passing into his orbit are a big - hearted bank teller (Holly Hunter), who takes an inexplicable shine to this mumbling recluse; a seedy acquaintance (Harmony Korine, behaving like a character in a Harmony Korine movie); and his justifiably fed - up son (Chris Messina, responsible for the film's lone traces of recognizable human behavior).

The behaviors can also be channeled in other directions, such as feeding the dog in a separate area at the time of human meals, or giving dry food or a healthy snack inside a toy or puzzle from which the dog will have to work to get the food.

a.) a considerable amount of exercise, including the use of treadmills and backpacks, as a way of relaxing dogs to prepare them for counter-conditioning exercises; b.) packs of dogs to rehabilitate unstable, fearful or aggressive dogs; c.) Leashes and chain collars to block jumping, whining, possessiveness, biting, aggressiveness, excessive barking, mounting, fighting, active dominance challenges; d.) Redirection to get dogs doing alternative behaviors in play areas, obstacle courses, a pool, a feeding area, a sleeping area, and an eating / drinking area; e.) calming techniques using hand feeding; f.) a limited amount of obedience training, such as teaching the dogs to heel on a loose lead at the handler's side; g.) a «claw» technique, his own version of the «alpha rollover», and a pursuit technique to deal with dogs that don't show submission to other dogs or people; h.) «flooding» for phobias; i.) «calm / assertive» handler techniques; j.) touch and sound techniques to interrupt, correct and / or redirect behaviors; k.) a variety of traditional manners rules, which are implemented with the «no free lunch» type of approach; l.) a variety of games and other «mental challenges»; m.) human intervention; and n.) electric collars (not mentioned, as I recall, in the book)

a.) a considerable amount of exercise, including the use of treadmills and backpacks, as a way of relaxing dogs to prepare them for counter-conditioning exercises b.) packs of dogs to rehabilitate unstable, fearful or aggressive dogs; c.) Leashes and chain collars to block jumping, whining, possessiveness, biting, aggressiveness, excessive barking, mounting, fighting, active dominance challenges; d.) Redirection to get dogs doing alternative behaviors in play areas, obstacle courses, a pool, a feeding area, a sleeping area, and an eating / drinking area; e.) calming techniques using hand feeding; f.) a limited amount of obedience training, such as teaching the dogs to heel on a loose lead at the handler's side; g.) a «claw» technique, his own version of the «alpha rollover», and a pursuit technique to deal with dogs that don't show submission to other dogs or people; h.) «flooding» for phobias; i.) «calm / assertive» handler techniques; j.) touch and sound techniques to interrupt, correct and / or redirect behaviors; k.) a variety of traditional manners rules, which are implemented with the «no free lunch» type of approach; l.) a variety of games and other «mental challenges»; m.) human intervention; and n.) electric collars (usually not mentioned in their marketing materials or websites)

Aside from the fact that feeding your dog from the table reinforces a negative behavior (begging), some human food can be harmful to your dog, even in small quantities.

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The key is to decrease your dog's inflammation so always feed great food (think human foods), use safer medications, and include behavior modification for the best results.

The pack helped socialize Hamilton and teach him appropriate dog behavior while the humans in the household took care of Hamilton's other needs, bottle feeding him all hours of the day and night.