Sentences with phrase «lack of a food group»

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The working group has been urging governments, companies and other stakeholders to increase the role Christian and other faith - based organisations have in tackling humanitarian crises such as lack of food, water or sanitation, as well as civil wars, religious persecution or natural disasters.

a British friend said to a group of American expats who were complaining for the * umpteenth * time about the lack of Mexican food in London.

My point is that it is NOT simple the foods that are being eaten at schools, but it is the lack of recess, PE, nutrition education (you remember the 4 food groups, but can you dicepeher the food pyramid?)

Baby Milk Action, a campaign group that monitors the baby food industry against United Nations marketing standards, says it has received a letter (dated 9 July 2014) from the Executive Director of the UN Global Compact, Mr Georg Kell, that confirms its view that the corporate accountability initiative is «worse than useless and lacking in integrity».

A study by the Pew Charitable Trusts» Kids» Safe and Healthful Foods Project, also expected to be released Monday, said that 91 percent of school food officials the group surveyed said they face challenges in putting the standards in place, including problems with food costs and availability, training employees to follow the new guidelines, and a lack of the proper equipment to cook healthier meals.

Action and investment in improving complementary feeding or providing foods supplements seems to be taking place with little consideration for supporting or improving breastfeeding amongst 6 < 24 + month old children, despite estimates that 20 % of deaths in 12 < 24 month age group in developing countries are due to lack of breastfeeding.

The BFAWU has agreed to work with Unite the Resistance and John McDonnell MP, along with other groups at a meeting on January 8th 2014 in order to discuss and hopefully address the lack of fairness and justice for workers in the UK's fast - food industry.

The circuit Hasan's group has discovered consists of three types of nerve cells — one set senses and reports the lack of protein in food, a second set integrates this input with metabolic information and the third set controls the hormonal signals necessary to begin pupation.

«Schools» misguided reliance on processed foods for speedy, low - labor cost production, industry's $ 1.6 billion in child - targeted advertising and a lack of faith in our children's dietary curiosity [have] created a generation of «picky eaters» with dull palates,» reports the group.

Baleen whales are a group of Mysticeti, large whales usually from colder waters that lack teeth but have baleen plates in the upper jaw which are used to filter food such as krill out of large quantities of seawater.

Working across a set of 20 islands off the Finnish coast, a group of Finnish scientists found that a disproportionate number of small islands were lacking the highest levels of the food chain.

One group consumed normal amounts of vitamin A («sufficient»), while the other group ate food that lacked the nutrient («deficient»).

To examine whether or not lower status is more benign in small - scale, relatively egalitarian societies in which group members frequently share food and other resources, lack coercive authority, and where people have little wealth to contest, the investigators studied the relationship between status and biomarkers of stress and disease among Tsimane men.

The detox debate Opinion may be divided on the benefits of doing a detox diet, however, the Dietitians Association of Australia (DAA) claims the scientific basis for these kinds of stringent diets is lacking and such severe dietary restrictions of whole food groups may be unnecessary.

In brief, Price concluded that the groups he studied maintained good health not simply because they were limited to a more primitive environment and lacked industrial foods, but because they had accumulated wisdom about how to select important nutrient - dense foods and possessed the strength of character necessary to procure those foods even when doing so proved difficult.

In our world of diverse foods, there is one group that is most beneficial to our health, but one which the majority of people's diets in our population today are severely lacking in.

All of these are found in fresh fruits and vegetables — the single food group most lacking in the American diet.

Nearly one - third of U.S. children under age 12 live in families that lack food at some point during the year or are at risk of serious food shortages during that time, according to a study by a nutrition watchdog group.

For example, when a group of juniors at Manhattan Bridges High School helped assess their school's climate, they discovered a number of problems and needs: too few counselors, unclean and crowded bathrooms, less - than - appetizing food in the cafeteria, a lack of engagement from parents, bullying from students at other schools on campus, and unequal levels of respect among students and between students and teachers.

Lack of consensus was also identified when a group of behaviourists in the USA was asked to label the scenario of a dog growling when people approached its food bowl.

The RUAF network was initiated in response to the needs identified by a group of representatives from 28 international organisations, including UNDP, FAO, IDRC, GTZ and CIRAD, that met in Ottawa (Canada) in 1994 and recognised the need to address the increasing «urbanisation of poverty» and growing urban food insecurity related to urban - rural migration, lack of formal employment, rising food prices, growing dependence on food imports, increasing dominance of supermarkets and fast food chains, and challenges posed by climate change.

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As a group, we realized our lack of knowledge of our country's farm subsidies and how they relate to the real cost of food.

Dehydration and malnutrition normally affect certain age groups and demographics more so than others, and the one most commonly afflicted by lack of food and water are the elderly.

Our (somewhat mysterious) ability to recognize and group like things together makes life livable, not just easy: imagine if we lacked the concept of «chair» or «food» how difficult things would be.

Of the ethnic groups, African Americans and Latinos are far more likely than whites to lack access to healthy food, sufficient bike lanes and outdoor space, and are more likely to experience traffic / crime impediments to walking.

Both groups, however, knock its lack of ethnic food.