Sentences with phrase «human food amounted»

An estimated ~ 10 % of the total economic value of European agricultural output for human food amounted to $ 22 billion in 2005 ($ 14.2 for the EU) was dependent upon insect pollination.

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But the practice of not eating — or reducing the amount of food consumed — is something humans have been doing for thousands of years.

The jury may be out still on whether trace amounts of the popular herbicide glyphosate pose health risks to humans, but industry insiders predict mounting consumer fear about the possibility will pressure more food and beverage manufacturers in 2018 to...

The real issue might be whether this is an adequately safe human food: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin «Potential harms Lupins contain significant amounts of certain secondary compounds like isoflavones and toxic alkaloids, e.g. lupinine and sparteine.

This talk will discuss a logical approach to nutrient retention, including transformation technologies, which ensures that the greatest amount of nutrients are retained in the human food chain.

The food component of the commodity account, which was derived as a balancing item, was used to refer to the total amount of the commodity that was available for human consumption during the year, including of processed products that were derived from the food commodity, and was expressed as primary commodity equivalents.

Describe the importance for humans of exercise, eating the right amounts of different types of food, and hygiene.

No available evidence shows that exceeding the amount of calcium retained by the exclusively breastfed term infant during the first 6 months of life or the amount retained by the human milk - fed infant supplemented with solid foods during the second 6 months of life is beneficial to achieving long - term increases in bone mineralization.

The ability of these locusts to eat the country's food supplies is astonishing — each swarm consumes 2,500 times the average amount of food eaten by humans.

Researchers measured the amount and quality of grass, the major blackbuck food source, and identified risky areas, where blackbuck were most likely to come across wolves, dogs or humans.

Ten thousand years ago, at the dawn of the Neolithic era, the agricultural revolution began to yield vastly larger amounts of food from cultivated crops and livestock, allowing rapid growth in human populations.

Isotope ratios (the ratio of carbon - 13 to carbon - 12, for example) are different in human foods than in the wild plants and animals that black bears naturally eat in Yosemite, partly due to the large amounts of meat and corn - based foods in our diets.

Higher mercury concentrations in shallower waters could increase the amount of toxin accumulating in food fish, exposing humans to greater risk of mercury poisoning, Lamborg says.

Food security, D'Odorico said, is typically defined as the availability of and access to a sufficient amount of food to meet the requirements of human societies at all places and all tiFood security, D'Odorico said, is typically defined as the availability of and access to a sufficient amount of food to meet the requirements of human societies at all places and all tifood to meet the requirements of human societies at all places and all times.

The inescapable fact is that an ever - growing human population requires prodigious amounts of energy and food.

Humans acquire copper in trace amounts from food.

Pterostilbene is present in small amounts in a whole range of foods and beverages like grapes, blueberries, peanuts and red wine and widely consumed by humans.

Hilborn says this is a reasonable amount given the need to provide food for the human population, and the new work is «fuzzing up what we mean by sustainability.»

These foods contain a substantial amount of salt, sugar, and fat and are meant to simulate the human Western diet.

The human body was simply not made to digest the amount of carbs the modern diet consists of, most of them coming from over-processed foods.

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.

It is probably at this point that the greatest breakdown in our modern diet takes place, namely, in the ingestion and utilization of adequate amounts of the special activating substances, including the vitamins [A, D and K2] needed for rendering the minerals in the food available to the human system.

Leptin, in humans, seems to be correlated to the amount of food we eat.

If food intake is 9000 kJ / d, these amounts of protein work out to 10.6 and 12 % of total energy intake, which are similar to intakes in traditional Kitava and Okinawa, but are lower than the 14 - 15 % e found by Raubenheimer and his co-workers to be necessary for humans (see below).

The limiting amino acid of a food is defined as the essential amino acid present in the lowest amount compared to a reference protein or to human requirements.

Babies do produce functional enzymes (pepsin and proteolytic enzymes) and digestive juices (hydrochloric acid in the stomach) that work on proteins and fats.12 This makes perfect sense since the milk from a healthy mother has 50 - 60 percent of its energy as fat, which is critical for growth, energy and development.13 In addition, the cholesterol in human milk supplies an infant with close to six times the amount most adults consume from food.13 In some cultures, a new mother is encouraged to eat six to ten eggs a day and almost ten ounces of chicken and pork for at least a month after birth.

By definition, a macronutrient is, «a type of food (e.g., fat, protein, carbohydrate) required in large amounts in the human diet.»

Also note that digestion is a 98 - 99 % efficient process - there are MINIMAL nutrients left in human waste matter, and what is left are primarily fibrous starches that we can not digest (like cellulose), a few undigested food particles, small amounts of fat, and water.

Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) is naturally produced in the human body in very small amounts, but is also available in some foods.

The dosage used in the study was approximately equal to the recommended amount in healthy foods for humans.

So the general amount of cholesterol in the human body changes only very little (if at all), if the cholesterol is just coming from natural whole food instead of from the liver (3, 4).

This is a lie, because the human body can produce the tiny amount of glucose it needs without eating carbohydrate foods.

Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) is naturally produced in the human body in very small amounts, but it is also available through food sources.

In the case of vitamin A, however, you'll need egg yolks and other animal foods such as fish since plant foods don't contain vitamin A (they contain large amounts of beta carotene which the human body can convert to vitamin A but not very efficiently as other animals).

«It is important to understand that the human body is well - equipped to use small amounts of methanol produced from foods and beverages, as well as from aspartame.

Once it was discovered that the human digestive system has a hard time breaking down these oligosaccharides, and over 90 percent escape digestion (in the stomach and small intestine) until they reach the colon where they benefit the probiotics, the race was on to produce increasing amounts of inulin in particula for the «functional food» industry.

It varies some by species, too — cats can't actually use any plant - source Vitamin A; and a lot of 100 % vegetarian food has B12 listed because B12 content is measured from BACTERIA B12 activity, and the form of B12 in plants is not usable by humans (i.e. it has zero B12 if you're a human, but a considerable amount of B12 if you're e.coli).

Thus, for optimal health, humans require animal foods containing liberal amounts of true vitamin A. Similarly, many claim that adequate vitamin D can be obtained from a short daily exposure to sunlight.

Okay, so what is the perfect food for human beings, the food that was fine - tuned just for us over millions of years to have the perfect amount of protein?

Check out some internet sites for the amount of fat necessary by the human body and then check how much is naturally in plant foods.

But it does not list foods likely to contain the highest amounts of pesticide residues nor those that pose the greatest dangers to human health.

Complementary protein foods are foods that are low in certain essential amino acids, but in combination, provide all 9 essential amino acids in amounts that allow synthesis of adequate amounts of protein in the human body.

Along with each will be a short description explaining what it is, what its role is in the human body, the recommendations for how much of it you should consume per day, and the most common foods that contain a significant amount of it.

You need to be very smart with processed foods, as there might only be 10 % fitting human needs and amount should still be limited.

This evidence stems from the fact that eating foods that resemble the protein structure of humans causes the liver to release excess amounts of the growth hormone, IGF - 1, which accelerates aging and promotes tumor growth.

It's not that I can't be convinced that they're unhealthy, but if I'm going to accept data that goes against the grain of thousands of years of human history and a fair amount of anecdotal data, I'd like more than one study to convince me; I'd like multiple studies and an explanation of the mechanism by which these foods do harm.

Blueberries are among a small number of foods that contain measurable amounts of oxalic acid, a naturally - occurring substances found in plants, animals, and human beings.

The following page shows both how much of each amino acid humans need AND what amounts are in whole plant foods.

Because the available evidence suggests that the beneficial effects of fiber in humans are most likely related to the amount of food consumedâ $» not to the individualâ $ ™ s age or body weightâ $» the best approach is to set an Adequate Intake (AI) based on grams per 1,000 kcal.

8 essential amino acids, which human body doesn't produce in sufficient amounts to meet it's demands, so they have to be obtained from food or supplementation.