Sentences with phrase «of food studies»

Our love affair with quick and not - so - healthy meals is spreading to more than our children's waistlines, it is tainting the way they look at food, says Dr. Antonia Demas, president and founder of the Food Studies Institute.

Since then, the entire field of food studies has exploded with more and more programs like BU's cropping up each year.

Women with knee arthritis who drank tart cherry juice twice a day experienced a significant reduction in inflammatory markers, according to a trial published in the July 2012 issue of the Journal of Food Studies.

Not exact matches

An ever growing pile of studies shows that a lack of face to face time with your fellow human beings will kill you as surely as fast food or cigarettes.

Indeed, Chick - fil - A restaurants are the most frequented fast food restaurant in 38 out of 50 states, according to a study by Business Insider and Foursquare.

A recent Geophysical Research Letters study found that the Arctic permafrost contains 32 million gallons of mercury, which is projected to adversely affect our global air, food, water and soil supplies as the Earth warms and the permafrost unthaws, releasing the neurotoxin.

A review of 17 studies found that adults who drank sugar - sweetened beverages with meals consumed 7.8 % more food than adults who consumed water with meals (20).

For example, a Nielsen study found 60 % of Americans say the absence of artificial flavours and colours is important when deciding which foods to buy.

Their early 1990s study Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast - Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania (available for download here) showed «no indication that the rise in the minimum wage reduced employment» and sparked a national destudy Minimum Wages and Employment: A Case Study of the Fast - Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania (available for download here) showed «no indication that the rise in the minimum wage reduced employment» and sparked a national deStudy of the Fast - Food Industry in New Jersey and Pennsylvania (available for download here) showed «no indication that the rise in the minimum wage reduced employment» and sparked a national debate.

In a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research that examined the impact of mental stress on food choices, a majority of the participants selected an unhealthy food (chocolate cake) over a healthy food (fruit) after completing a complicated memorization task.

But again, the FDA says the levels of the chemical in foods like fries or crackers are much lower than acrylamide levels linked to cancer in animal studies.

Harvard's Dutton Lab has already partnered with David Chang's world - famous Momofuku test kitchen to study the fermentation of foods like miso, koju and katsuobushi.

Speaking of checkpoint inhibitor drugs... Merck's star cancer immunotherapy treatment Keytruda is facing some troubling clinical trial incidents which have now compelled the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to halt three studies of the drug in multiple myeloma, a rare blood cancer, after a number of patient deaths.

Earlier this month, the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology published a study estimating that 2.5 % of Americans have a food allergy.

Earlier studies have suggested the effects of calorie - labeling at fast - food restaurants are minor at best, but there was a hope that the long - term impact would be more substantial.

According to the study, there was «no consistent change in the nutritional content of foods and beverages purchased or in how often respondents purchased fast food.»

In fact, a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that participants who kept a food journal, with the goal of weight loss, lost twice as much weight as those who didn't.

Blemishes and unattractive produce make up nearly 40 percent of discarded food, according to a 2012 study by the Natural Resources Defense Council.

In the study titled «What Would Batman Eat: Priming Children to Make Healthier Fast Food Choices» researchers at Cornell showed children pictures of role models before asking them to choose french fries or apple fries (raw apple slices) as part of their lunch.

«Applied Food Sciences knew or should have known that this botched study didn't prove anything,» said Jessica Rich, director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection.

According to a 2015 research study in the Journal of American Medical Association, many new drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration don't improve overall survival.

Food portions have expanded, too; a study by Van Ittersum found even the average size of a dinner plate has increased by 23 % since 1900.

A short - term study of 29 young men showed that they consumed on average 238 fewer calories each day for two weeks when they were told not to eat anything between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. And these calories they were no longer eating were coming mostly from high - fat, high - carb foods.

The green coffee bean manufacturer, Applied Food Sciences Inc., agreed to pay a $ 3.5 million settlement after the Federal Trade Commission charged the company with using the results of the flawed study to make baseless claims, the agency announced in September.

An article for the International Food Information Council Foundation (IFICF) also notes that because the Tufts study is among the first of its kind, it is hard to judge its accuracy.

And as a new study published in Health Physics recently explored, everyday foods and objects (yes, even the beloved avocado) emit a very small dose of radiation every hour.

«A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study found that from 1998 to 2008, leafy greens were associated with more incidents of food poisoning than any other single food category (though contaminated poultry led to more deaths),» Harrington reports.

A 2010 study by Consumer Reports found «unacceptable» levels of bacteria that commonly cause food poisoning in about a third of the 208 salad bags tested.

Marion Nestle, a professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University, concurs.

And in one study in Somalia, researchers found that only 35 percent of a food aid budget went to beneficiaries, compared to a cash program, where 85 percent of aid went to beneficiaries.

This ads up to about half of produce grown and billions of dollars» worth of lost fruits and vegetables, according to a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report and a study in the Journal of Consumer Affairs.

Americans, on average, consume twice as much added sugar as is recommended, according to Marion Nestle, PhD., professor in the department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University who posted a comment on the nutrition label proposals.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is even more hostile; it studied hundreds of health claims involving probiotics and rejected every one without exception.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has given Alnylam Pharmaceuticals the green light to relaunch clinical trials of its treatment for the bleeding disorder hemophilia after pausing the studies after a patient death.

In the study, mice were given food until they became obese, and were then fed the drug, which increases the cellular metabolism of obesity - linked white fat cells.

Overall, participants who maintained healthy eating patterns throughout the study period lowered their risk of death between 9 - 14 %, with even those who started out with unhealthy eating patterns seeing a reduced risk the more healthy food they added over time.

Grant acknowledges that studies reveal many givers tend to linger at the bottom of the food chain, with low promotion and productivity rates.

An International Journal of Psychology study released last month found that 84 percent of U.S. parents lie to children get them to do the right thing, especially when it comes to food and money.

Generation Z, those born 1997 to present, now represent 27 percent of the U.S. population, a larger group than Millennials, and although only older Gen Zs are entering adulthood, their impact on the food industry is already being felt, finds a new study by The NPD Group, a leading global information company.

A new study by Policy Matters Ohio found that more than 700 Amazon employees receive food stamps, or more than 10 percent of the tech giant's 6,000 - strong workforce in the state.

Scientific study has found potatoes to be one on the highest ranking of such foods.

The study showed that while demand for pesticide and GMO - free food is up 20 per cent a year in Canada, more than 90 per cent of organics come from the U.S. or overseas.

Studies of the economic impact of existing laws sponsored by groups across the ideological spectrum have found that while the costs to employers of paid sick leave mandates tend to be low on average, they tend to be more significant in certain industries, like food services, where paid sick leave is less common and workers typically are younger.

The IMvigor211 study had been meant to confirm a previous trial, called IMvigor210, that was central to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's accelerated approval last year of Tecentriq against bladder cancer.

In a 1996 study of a global food and beverage company, McClelland found that when senior managers had a critical mass of emotional intelligence capabilities, their divisions outperformed yearly earnings goals by 20 %.

It was a privilege to lead a three - country study of agri - food MSMEs for the APEC Growing Business Partnership in collaboration with a capable project team.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's study Food Truck Nation includes a «food truck index» that shows which cities are the most food truck frienFood Truck Nation includes a «food truck index» that shows which cities are the most food truck frienfood truck index» that shows which cities are the most food truck frienfood truck friendly.

Of every dollar a full - service restaurant brings in, it spends roughly a third on food and alcohol; another third on salaries, wages and benefits; up to 10 cents on rent; and up to 20 cents on other costs such as marketing, according to studies by restaurant associations.

Sports sponsorships are commonly used to market unhealthy food and non-alcoholic beverages, exposing millions of consumers to their marketing messages, according to a recent study published...

The St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank study Harvesting Opportunity: The Power of Regional Food System Investments to Transform Communities nicely covers this topic.