Sentences with phrase «studying food availability»
Researchers identified the unique feeding pattern by studying food availability and the whales» population over the past 120,000 years.
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Although not as comprehensive as Chile's labelling laws (which include calories, something Canada might want to consider given the new calorie availability study), Canada is poised to become the second high - income country to graphically warn its citizens about foods they should think twice about before consuming.
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.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer wants to require developers to look at the availability of food and supermarkets when embarking on their land use studies.
Now a study finds that the sheer availability of all this food may be a big part of what is making us fat.
Previous studies have suggested that temperature and, more specifically, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels influence body size more via an indirect impact on food availability and nutritional content.
The success of fast - food menu labeling depends on multiple conditions being met, not just the availability of calorie information,» said study author Andrew Breck, a doctoral candidate at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
«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.
To examine how the availability of food may have affected armed conflict in Africa, the study relies on PRIO - Grid data from over 10,600 grid cells in Africa from 1998 to 2008, new agricultural yields data from EarthStat and Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casualties.
The study also concludes that nature will favour all physical traits that influence «optimal» fertility in either sex, and that climate and food availability also influence the evolution of reproductive processes — factors which Darwin originally overlooked.
The finding from this study — that the increased availability of food on deep - sea hills is fuelling increased seafloor biomass — is important because there are approximately 25 million abyssal hills and seamounts — they are thought to be the most common landform on the planet.»
A new study finds that the availability of food is a big one.
Previous studies have shown that changes in beak length in birds is typically associated with food availability.
«We increasingly recognize that many — and perhaps most — factors influencing health outcomes are found outside of the health system and relate to such universal themes as food availability, adequate housing and reliable transportation,» said Dr. Shaun Grannis, director of the Regenstrief Institute's Center for Biomedical Informatics and a co-author of the study.
Japan is poor for availability of a lot of foods listed in the study.
A study of Asian vegetarians with incomplete amino acid intake showed reduced clearing of xenobiotics.47 Low levels of hydrochloric acid have an adverse impact on the availability of dietary amino acids, even in a higher protein diet, so stimulating the pancreas using lacto - fermented foods is crucial.
While this study was lab - based and not conducted on real people eating real food, we look forward to future studies that may show the ability of beta - carotene content in our plant foods to improve the availability of minerals in those foods like iron and zinc.
This cultural shift must also include the recognition, as the present study makes clear, that the problem of human population growth can be feasibly addressed only if it is recognized that increases in the population of the human species, like increases in the population of all other species, is a function of increases in food availability.»
The story, based on a Lancet study, made dire forecasts regarding the effects of climate change on agriculture, while failing to note that the study actually predicts much more abundant food availability in 2050 thanks to advances in agricultural productivity.
I mourn the loss of our work on food supply for remote communities — the food basket studies, mapping the cost and availability of basic foods, the RIST work (Remote Indigenous Stores and Take - aways) and the work with Menzies School of Health Research on the RIST electronic program for nutritionists to track sales of foods and drinks in the remote stores, the work with store groups to upskill their staff, and the partnership with the Jimmy Little Foundation to badge healthy food in the remote stores.