Sentences with phrase «food at the household»

Improving the bioavailability of nutrients in plant foods at the household level.

Food insecurity may be caused by the unavailability of food, insufficient purchasing power, inappropriate distribution, or inadequate use of food at the household level.

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Foodies, for example, spend a disproportionate amount of their money on food, beverages and goods at big - box stores, possibly because they live in larger households with adult chlldren or other family members.

According to recent statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 15.8 million U.S. households — that's 12.7 percent of the total — didn't have enough food to eat at some point last year, the latest period for which numbers are available.

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According to data released by the Agriculture Department this week, 15.8 million U.S. households, or 12.7 percent, experienced «food insecurity» at some point in 2015, meaning their access to food was limited by financial or other constraints.

Besides the mounds of wonderful food and extended family gathered at many US households, there might be plenty of turkey to go around, but there is only one wishbone.

For lower income households, food makes up a much higher percentage of incomes at 32.6 % — and how individual foods change in price can make a big difference at the dinner table.

Looking at the sector - wide performance of Corporate America in the second quarter of this year, more than 80 percent of the companies in information technology, healthcare and the financial - services space reported higher than estimated EPS growth, closely followed by the consumer staples industry producing food, beverages, household articles, while about 60 - 70 percent of the companies listed under the energy, utilities and materials sectors reported better than expected EPS numbers.

We went to Walmart to buy them some food and household items, and are now at his house raking up the leaves in his front yard.

In each case the story begins with the question, `' Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his master has set over his household, to give them their food at the proper time?»

A statement from World Vision paid tribute to «the generosity of supporters and partners around the world» which had enabled the charity to «provided food to at least two million people, emergency shelters to more than 40,000 households, and potable water for more than 90,000 people».

Although many emergency preparedness websites encourage households to have a minimum of three days of food, water, and other supplies, major storms like Sandy, Hurricane Katrina, and concerns about computer hacking of our power grid, all make it wise to have a several weeks of supplies on hand — and supplies to share — if at all possible.

Children and adults were food insecure at times during the year in 9.9 percent of households with children and at times, those 3.8 million households were unable to provide adequate, nutritious food for their children.

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Now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the government - funded program provides qualifying households with a card, accepted at most grocery stores, to purchase food (www.snap-step1.usda.gov/fns).

It's nearly Valentine's Day, which means pretty pink food at the Oat So Delicious household!

Gingered spice beets and maple chili relish are two additional household favorites at this up - and - coming specialty foods store, which was established by NYC restaurant veterans, Brendan Donovan and Francis Derby, in early 2011.

The chief executive of fresh ingredients and meal kit company Marley Spoon says investors are under - estimating the amount of disruption which will occur at supermarket giants Woolworths and Coles as more time - poor households use the service which dramatically cuts wastage of fresh food.

31 % of food that is available at supermarkets, restaurants, dining halls, and in households goes uneaten.

While some change will happen at the household level, restaurants, college campuses and supermarkets can take innovative and creative measures to reduce food waste.

The American Chemistry Council is investigating the role of food packaging to reduce food loss and waste at the household level, and potentially throughout the food system.

In the first of two hour - long episodes, broadcast on BBC1 at 9.00 pm last night, Fearnley - Whittingstall investigated food and household waste across the supply chain.

Available in a small 125g (# 1.25 / $ 1.74) for specialist and smaller outlets, it is designed for smaller households and aimed at reducing food waste.

The below chart from the tool shows that if the intervention leads to an uplift of at least 5.7 kg of food waste per household per year, all stand to benefit from it:

In providing a glimpse into the restaurant's near - term future, Chef Bryant noted, «Our short - term goals are to become a household name for a great dining experience, tear down the «hotel restaurant» perception because nothing we do at Saltbox is standard hotel food, continue to grow our relationships with local farmers, and help promote the local economy.

I grew up in a very modest household, but I remember fabulous food at every meal at my home, especially my mother's Passover Cooking.

Paid meals: Meals that meet the nutritional requirements of the National School Lunch or School Breakfast Program and are served to children with household income above 185 percent of the poverty line at a price set by the school district or school food program

At this point, you can offer him samples of your household foods, as long as they are not spicy or particularly sweet or salty.

It just seems reassuring to know that Seaman and Steel aren't like those people we all know, who constantly remind friends (and strangers) that their children only eat organic and talk about their household ban on fast / junk food as if some insidious junk food cartel were trying to force it down their chimney at night as they sleep.

UK researchers of this program offer $ 310 worth of vouchers to moms upon agreement to breastfeed their babies for at least six months.The vouchers entitle moms to free toys, household products, and food.

Fast food was forbidden at the Lennon household, where strict dietary discipline was a product of her belief in breast - feeding.

And at a time when over 17 million American children are growing up in food - insecure households, the House GOP proposes a cut of «about $ 650 million — or 10 percent — from the Women, Infants and Children program that feeds and educates mothers and their children.»

Mean and standard errors of monthly weight gain after adjusting for maternal age; race / ethnicity; education; household income; marital status; parity; postpartum Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children program participation; prepregnancy body mass index (calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared); infant sex; gestational age; birth weight; age at solid food introduction; and sweet drinks consumption.

A recent survey of Canadian households found that 8 % reported at least one food allergy.

2010 FRAC releases its first «food hardship» study, which looks at a household's ability to afford enough food, and contains data for not just the nation but also for every congressional district.

But again, just like at the office, it is time usually spent wolfing down food, taking care of mundane tasks that are necessary for your household to function, and worrying about all the things you couldn't get done in that small window of time.

And there's another link between hunger and obesity as well that I didn't mention — if a child is in a food - scarce household, he or she may miss meals and then overcompensate wildly at the first opportunity, which can also result in an obese but malnourished body.

I don't do a lot of food shopping at Walmart, but there are times when I'm already there for household items and find myself picking up a few essentials before heading home.

«Fewer New Yorkers are now worried about the financial impact of gas and food than at any point in the nine years that Siena has measured the household economic impact of those necessities.»

In his words, «Each household beneficiary would be issued with a voucher, which is redeemed at the receipt of the household allocation of the food basket.

«The distribution, which is based on Dry ration calculations of 6 persons per household and food ration per individual for 30days at 280grams x30 / 1000k = 8.4 kg times individual requirement per household, is 50.4 kg.

In a chat with newsmen in Kano, Mairiga stated that it is not an exaggeration that members of many households in the country proceed to bed, without at least one square meal, while some others flee their homes, following their inability to put food on the table of their loved ones.

Speaking at the handing over ceremony at Yikene, the Upper East Regional Minister, James Zuugah Tiigah commended the company for the innovative initiative which will go a long way to ensure food security and further reduce poverty among over 200 households.

Extend the state food stamp program to another 750,000 households by raising the eligibility from households with income at 130 percent of the federal poverty level to those with 150 percent of the poverty level.

His team built a model with agents representing 1.4 million households around the globe — roughly 10,000 per country — and looked at how climate change and disasters might affect health, food security, and labor productivity.

Of 663 households surveyed by the Ohio State researchers, 26 percent were not at all satisfied with their ability to easily access food and 27 percent said it wasn't easy to find fresh fruits and vegetables, even though most of those surveyed — 86 percent — said nutritional value was «important» or «very important» to them when shopping.

«Almost a third of the households were food insecure, and more than 16 percent had very low food security, meaning they were skipping meals, at risk for experiencing hunger and probably missing work and school and suffering health problems as a result,» said study lead author Michelle Kaiser, an assistant professor of social work at Ohio State.

A famine is declared when at least 20 percent of households in an area face extreme food shortages with a limited ability to cope; acute malnutrition rates exceed 30 percent; and the death rate exceeds two people per 10,000 per day.

Studies suggest that more appropriate questions could focus on resilience, by looking at the percentage of households that report having a stable food supply throughout the year and the average length of time for which households in the community have an emergency food supply after a disaster.