Sentences with phrase «food factor at»

Puppy Love While breed size is an important food factor at every stage of life, it may be the most important during puppyhood, when proper nutrition sets the course for future health.

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The demand woes are essentially tied to three main factors: Across the industry, retailers still had to unload food shipments from the fourth quarter, resulting in some delayed ordering at the start of 2017; executives also blamed a delay in tax refunds for hurting consumer demand during the quarter; and then there was a shift in the timing for Easter — the holiday landed in March for 2016 but April this year.

What we didn't anticipate was that other factors, including bad weather and other hiccups in commodities markets, would drive up the price of food in much of the U.S., increasing restaurants» costs at a time when they couldn't easily pass those costs through to budget - conscious diners.

The average conference ticket costs between $ 100 - 500 but factor in airfare, hotels, food, and you're looking at nearly $ 2,000 sometimes.

While sales at Australia's top branded food and grocery manufacturers were flat or in decline last year, according to IRI data, Procter & Gamble's sales have risen for two consecutive years despite the sale of brands such as Duracell, Nice n Easy, Cover Girl and Max Factor.

Unfortunately honey bee populations in some parts of the world are at risk from a number of interacting factors such as agriculture intensification, Varroa mite, bee pathogens, changes in bee food supplements and pesticides.

Many of the Asian countries seen at markets for Australian food have Total Factor Productivity rates two to three times those of Australia, figure 3.

Bringing together leading researchers from across Europe, The Center for Food and Hospitality Research at the Institut Paul Bocuse, held a symposium on the subject of Social and Cross-cultural Factors of Culinary and Eating Behaviours.

Alice Fotheringham, nutrition expert at organic baby food brand Piccolo, discusses the factors that influence the foods we choose to eat, especially in our formative years.

This combination of factors and trends means that the food system in Australia is at a critical juncture.

Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, wrote an editorial accompanying the new paper in which she said the documents provided «compelling evidence» that the sugar industry had initiated research «expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease.»

Because producing food «intensively» (on a mass scale, in a location that enjoys advantages of climate and other environmental factors, with the addition of specialized technology, etc.) may, at least in some dimensions, be more environmentally - friendly than areas with less intensified production (because greater intensity often means more efficient).

Of course, the game vs Chelsea in Beijing was a blip occasioned by a combination of factors, not the least of which was the team recovering from food poisoning and having two academy players start at right / left wing back and CB; plus, being the last game of a gruelling tour, there is a tourist effect to the last day of the tour.

When I assess a child to determine why they have difficulty eating a variety of foods, I look closely at three factors: First, the child's physiology.

The other factor here is that once at the grocery store there is so much mis - information about foods that are still filled with crap but disguised as healthy that even the most savvy consumer can often find themselves wrought with conflict about what to buy.

And while we know that the development of food allergies is a highly complex mix of both genetic and environmental factors, decreasing that risk would mean less children at risk for anaphylaxis and more parents able to breathe a little bit easier whenever they send their children off to school or to a birthday party.

Another factor is the SNA's cozy relationship with Big Food, which funds at least half of the organization's operating budget.

Our approach allowed for a larger sample size; the consideration of seasonal changes in menu offerings and available foods; and other factors such as holiday meals, taste tests, and other cafeteria events or promotions that could influence student selection of foods at lunch in the short term.

Such factors include the availability of food and beverages that compete with school meals, the frequency of offering fruit and vegetables at lunch, and the amount of time students have to eat lunch.6 - 8 The more an environment consistently promotes healthy behavior, the greater the likelihood that such behavior will occur.9 The goal of the 2010 HHFKA is to foster a healthy school food environment and promote lifelong healthy eating behaviors among children.4 Keys to its success include assurance of the provision of healthy food in schools and an environment where healthy food preferences can be learned, expressed, and reassessed.1

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

School environments are complex, and many factors have an effect on the foods that children eat at school.

While many factors can influence hyperactivity in children, including genes and environment, «there is good evidence that artificial food colors can also increase levels of hyperactivity,» said Jim Stevenson, the study's lead author and professor emeritus in the school of psychology at the University of Southampton.

It may well be true that there are factors at home that began the journey to obesity for the kids in this study, but it seems likely that the bad food given to them through school lunches would only make the problem worse.

While an increase in lunch participation can be attributed to many different factors, there was consensus among Knox County School Nutrition staff that more students enjoying the food at breakfast has been a good marketing tool for eating school lunch.

I remember as a kid growing up (which I think could be a contributing factor to my food struggles) at family parties I plated my own foods.

«Though the over-reliance on the mono - economic system is also a contributory factor to this financial impasse but I can assure every citizen that the present government of President Muhammadu Buhari would not rest on his oars at repositioning the nation's economy by ensuring adequate production of foods for local consumption as well as for export.

The task force, at its inaugural meeting presided over by Osinbajo yesterday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, focussed on understanding all factors contributing to unduly high food prices, especially at urban markets throughout the country.

The spokesman said the task force identified some key staple foods and the factors that were most likely hiking their prices in some parts of the country despite bumper harvests at many farms.

Jane Muir and Peter Gibson at Monash University in Australia wondered if fructans — sugar chains found in food including wheat, barley, rye and onions — might be the inciting factor instead.

Josef Schmidhuber, a senior policy analyst at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, questioned some of the underlying assumptions for regional production figures and said that this UEF study also fails to consider other external factors that could affect these results.

«We found that healthy food stores within one mile of their home was the only significant factor that reduced or slowed the progression of calcium buildup in coronary arteries,» said Ella August, Ph.D., co-lead author who initiated the study and clinical assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Looking at long - term trends in rain, crops, food prices and migration, they were able to determine how these factors contributed to social instability in the region.

After scaling up that number by calculating whale catches, food sources, and other factors, Whitehead arrived at a count of about 360,000 remaining sperm whales — a fifth of previous estimates.

Several factors are at play in the skyrocketing prices, reflecting both rising global demand and falling supplies of food grains.

California's Proposition 37, a ballot measure for labeling genetically modified foods, lost at the polls in November after supporters were outspent by a factor of five.

«Obesity and Type 2 diabetes in children is on the rise and there is the argument that it is related to lifestyle and availability of high calorie foods and reduced physical activity, but our study has found that maternal antidepressant use may also be a contributing factor to the obesity and diabetes epidemic,» said the study's senior investigator Alison Holloway, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at McMaster University.

The relationships between food intake at lunch and physical activity were independent of factors previously shown to contribute to recess activity such as a child's weight status and gender.

«Swirling, gusty winds in Earth's atmosphere affect problems at the nexus of landscape degradation, food security and epidemiological factors affecting human health,» Anderson said.

Babies are born without bacteria in the gut, and so it is interesting to identify the influence dietary factors have on gut microbiota development in children's first three years of life,» research manager at the National Food Institute Tine Rask Licht says.

A study by researchers at the University of Southampton and Southampton General Hospital, is the first to assess the prevalence of two different types of food hypersensitivity and the risk factors associated with them.

Today, the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, announced that Robin Warren and Barry Marshall have been recognized for their discovery that an easily treatable bacterium called Helicobacter pylori — and not stress, spicy foods, or a host of other factors — causes most peptic ulcers.

«I think they made a good case that [NAPE] should be considered among the factors the body uses to regulate food intake,» says Michael Schwartz, an endocrinologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Over a period of two years, the research team analyzed various factors affecting 330 students at 200 schools, including socioeconomic factors, school food environments, and cavity prevention programs.

NU - AGE's researchers also looked at socio - economic factors of food choices and health information as well as the most significant barriers to the improvement of the quality of a diet.

Only one species of food plant, Melaleuca howeana, grows on Balls Pyramid and it is at risk from environmental factors (such as drought, storms and rock falls), and an invasive vine (Morning Glory, Ipomoea cairica) that threatens to smother the few remaining plants.

«Factors other than parental eating behaviors such as community and school, food environment, peer influence, television viewing, as well as individual factors such as self - image and self - esteem seem to play an important role in young people's dietary intake,» said May A. Beydoun, PhD, co-author of the study and a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Bloomberg Factors other than parental eating behaviors such as community and school, food environment, peer influence, television viewing, as well as individual factors such as self - image and self - esteem seem to play an important role in young people's dietary intake,» said May A. Beydoun, PhD, co-author of the study and a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Bloomberg factors such as self - image and self - esteem seem to play an important role in young people's dietary intake,» said May A. Beydoun, PhD, co-author of the study and a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Bloomberg School.

Blocking a factor that can activate the human immune response against intestinal bacteria or certain foods could prevent the development of celiac disease in those most at risk, researchers report in the journal Nature.

Administered in the food of 20 - month - old genetically engineered mice, at a stage when Alzheimer's pathology is advanced, J147 rescued severe memory loss, reduced soluble levels of amyloid, and increased neurotrophic factors essential for memory, after only three months of treatment.

When administered in food at a stage when pathology is advanced in 20 - month - old transgenic AD mice, J147 rescued the severe loss of cognitive function, reduced soluble levels of Aβ and increased neurotrophic factors essential for memory.

As derived from British household surveys, the density of fast food outlets associated with body weight more strongly among women possibly reflecting their greater responsibility in the family setting or maybe lower control of appetite; thus, hinting at a stronger association between body weight and environmental factors.