Sentences with phrase «local diet»

To me, this criteria met a regional and mostly local diet.

Mexico is in the middle - ground due to the continued popularity in local diets of crops like maize and beans, two plants native to the region, alongside sugarcane (with origins in Southeast and South Asia) and wheat.

Considering that over 50 % of calories in local diets come from maize, yield losses caused by MSV can result in food shortages and famine.

The influence of the global trade of food on local diets and cultural choices has exploded over recent years.

«We know it is environmental factors rather than good genes that are primarily responsible for the health and youth of these people, because studies show that when they move to other countries and adopt local diets, they also develop local diseases and other signs of ageing,» says Beare.

Ironically, these were introduced to Xochimilco in the 1970s and 1980s through programmes run by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, with the aim of getting more protein into local diets.

For eaters in North America living outside of the grain growing regions of the U.S. mid-west and the Canadian prairie provinces one of the big gaps in eating a wholly local diet is the absence of wheat.

Sometimes your dietary needs coincide with the local diet, though.

The earliest iteration of minestrone soup actually dates back to the expansion of the Latin tribes into what became the Roman Republic and then the Roman Empire, when the local diet was vegetarian by necessity.

This indicates that the groups had limited mobility and mostly lived on a local diet,» says Adam Boethius.

For example, the fact that variants involved in taste and smell differed among the three groups suggests that those variants played a key role in adapting to local diets.

When I considered working for an NGO in Eastern Africa, I reasoned that I would finally find a community that felt right for me, meet the man of my dreams, and lose 10 pounds with the local diet.

11 When these children come under medical supervision, they are nourished back to health with their local diets of corn, wheat, rice, and / or beans.

Interestingly, when women from the Far East move to western countries and adopt the local diet and lifestyle (typically meatier and with less vegetables and fruits; more sedentary) their risk of cancer tends to increase.

He spent time in a poor coastal region of Italy in the years following World War 2 and observed the local diet...

Due to the Azores being surrounded by the sea, seafood is a huge part of the local diet.

Tree kangaroos for a long time have been part of the local diet.

They will be guest blogging frequently about their experiences with taking their home off the grid and eating a local diet.

Except, as we have noted, you can't separate a local diet from a seasonal diet.

For example, Monsanto is working on a drought - tolerant corn that would help provide yield stability in Africa, where it's a huge part of the local diet; corn and wheat account for about 40 percent of the world's food and 25 percent of calories consumed in developing countries, and millions of people get more than half of their daily calories from corn and wheat alone, according to the United Nations» Food and Agriculture Organization.