Sentences with phrase «than populations consuming»

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It explained how War had come to be flooded with far more prescription pain medicines than its population could ever reasonably or safely consume.

In the future the U.S. population will move more goods, consume more food, and require more living space than it does now.

PASTA has been enjoyed for centuries and by tradition, Italian people have consumed more than the rest of the world's population put together.

(In fact, the poorest fifth of the U.S. population today consumes more than the typical family did in 1955.)

But, as the congressional report points out, the U.S., though it has only 5 to 6 per cent of the world's population, consumes more than 40 per cent of the world's total food and non-food resources — most of it imported.

The USA has significant material needs, like, for example, oil (the USA, which is 5 % of world's population, consumes more than 25 % of world's oil and other resources).

Consumption of contaminated fish «is an especially pressing concern for many communities of color, low - income communities, tribes, and other indigenous peoples, whose members may consume fish, aquatic plants, and wildlife in greater quantities than does the general population,» according to a landmark Environmental Protection Agency study published nearly a decade ago.

Although the researchers are not sure why the German bees did so well, they noted this population also consumed less than a third as much rapeseed pollen as their those in the other countries.

It predicted that Arizona's population would grow by 50 percent over the next two decades and that the state's residents and industries would need at least 19 percent more water than they consume today.

In the U.S. alone, therapy for chronic kidney disease is likely to exceed $ 48 billion per year, and the end - stage kidney disease program consumes 6.7 percent of the total Medicare budget to care for less than 1 percent of the covered population.

Nearly 32 million adults in the United States (13 percent of the U.S. population aged 18 and older) consumed more than twice the number of drinks considered binge drinking on at least one occasion, according to a 2013 survey that asked about past - year drinking.

Nutritionists determine EARs for thirteen different populations, defined by age and gender, because different population groups have different nutritional requirements: Young boys need more calories than seniors, while women of childbearing age should consume more folic acid than the rest of the population needs, for example.

At a biology meeting last year, she and her colleagues reported that in Bogalusa, La., 80 percent of a population of adults consume no more than two servings of milk or other dairy foods per day.

The United States makes up less than five percent of the world's population but consumes 80 percent of the global opioid supply and approximately 99 percent of all hydrocodone — the most commonly prescribed opioid in the world.

While estimates of the amount of small mammals snow leopards consume may have been overstated, the importance of large ungulate populations to the snow leopard's diets may have been understated, as this study suggests stable snow leopard populations are possibly more reliant upon large ungulate prey than previously understood.

It's a one - two punch: the rich, big consumers of the world are consuming more and more (with no end in sight), causing a disproportionate share of the world's environmental destruction, while the poorest and most vulnerable populations (who are going to be hit hardest by environmental collapse) are growing faster than anyone else.

Although large cities cover roughly one percent of the Earth's surface, they consume 78 percent of the world's energy and contain more than half of the world's population.

Although the magnesium RDA is 420 mg for men and 320 mg for women, the standard U.S. diet provides only about 50 % of RDA with more than half of the population estimated to be consuming a diet deficient in magnesium.

The association has been studied in several different populations and the available research suggests that a moderate intake of coffee is associated with a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes, compared to consuming none or less than 2 cups per day2,15 - 17.

I'm certain that far less than 1 % of the population is consuming a Kempner rice diet.

And even Brenda and Vesanto say, ``... some populations who eat less than 400 mg of calcium per day have lower rates of osteoporosis than populations who consume more than 1,000 mg per day.»

The rice products consumed by our European - American participants were much less than those eaten by Asian, Hispanic and Indian populations.

Basically, it is more common for the general population to consume some vitamin or mineral in excess than it is to be deficient, especially for people who take vitamin supplements.

Beta - carotene is poorly converted into vitamin A, which is why some populations develop vitamin A deficiency despite consuming far more than they should have required.

None of the other studies looked at populations consuming less than 10 % of calories from protein, for the simple reason that only about 1 % of the population eats this way.

Only about 5 % of the population consumes more than 20 % of calories from protein, and most of the hazard ratios from the study are comparing these two tails of the bell curve.

Research indicates that populations with a high instance of colon rectal cancer consume diets containing less fiber, grains, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds, and more animal and protein fat and refined carbohydrates, than populations with a low incidence of the disease.

It was also observed that in the 1960s the prevalence of coronary heart disease among the nomadic pastoralists in Xinjiang in northern China who consumed large quantities of animal fat from grass - fed, free - ranging animals was more than seven times higher than that of other populations both within Xinjiang and throughout China which consumed significantly less animal fat.33 These observations support the suggestion that cardiovascular disease was common among the Mongols of the 13th century who subsisted almost exclusively on a diet based on grass - fed, free - ranging animals.»

This is in accord with the study Low protein intake is associated with a major reduction in IGF - 1, cancer, and overall mortality in the 65 and younger but not older population (2014), which found health benefits from consuming less than 10 % of from protein, except in the elderly, where adequate nutrition seems to require at least 10 %.

Creating an industry estimated to have a 2015 value of $ 37 billion, [4] there are more than 50,000 dietary supplement products marketed just in the United States, [5] where about 50 % of the American adult population consumes dietary supplements.

And more than 90 percent of American soy crops are GM.5 Since the introduction of GM foods in 1996, we've had an upsurge in low birth weight babies, infertility, and other problems in the U.S. population, and animal studies thus far have shown devastating effects from consuming GM soy.

~ Resistant starch and «the butyrate revolution» (review — abstract) «Early epidemiological studies indicated that populations that consume a high proportion of non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) dietary fibre (DF) in their daily diet suffer less from gastrointestinal diseases, in particular colorectal cancers, than populations that consume diets that are high in fat and protein but low in NSP fibre.

And yet, in 2015 less than 18 % of the American adult population ate the recommended amount of fruit, and less than 14 % consumed the recommended amount of veggies.

About two thirds of American adults drink coffee on a daily basis, 52 % of the US male population drinks at least one glass of soda per day, while over 50 % drinks tea on any given day, and 17 % consumes energy and sport drinks more than three times per week [14].

The press release issued by the company on behalf of its owner says that less than 1 % of the adult credit consuming population has achieved a «genuine» perfect score.

Since then Earths» population has grown to seven billion people, each consuming an order of magnitude more energy than back then, almost entirely by burning carbon - based fuels and releasing the resulting CO2 into the atmosphere as by far the most convenient place to put it.

The developing world, with less than 15 % of the world's population consumes more than 80 % of natural capital.

I suspect the people of 2100 will be much richer than we are, consume more energy, have a smaller global population, and enjoy more wilderness than we have today.

Americans consume around 25 percent of the world's oil, yet we account for less than five percent of its population.

Solar power still provides less than 1 % of all energy needs in the USA, while our population consumes over 25 % of the world's energy.

It's a one - two punch: the rich, big consumers of the world are consuming more and more (with no end in sight), causing a disproportionate share of the world's environmental destruction, while the poorest and most vulnerable populations (who are going to be hit hardest by environmental collapse) are growing faster than anyone else.

The greatest consumption is generally roughly proportional to the population of each state except for Queensland and Tasmania which consume more than the proportion expeced from their population.

If we add up all of these costs, which we did in a study published in 2012 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we find thousands of dollars of damages per vehicle (gasoline or electric) that are paid by the overall population rather than only by those releasing the emissions and consuming the oil.

Even accounting for the fact that the vast majority of the world's population consumes far, far less than this, natural resources and ecosystem services equal to 1.3 planets are consumed by humans.

At one end of the spectrum we're seeing major advances in fields like artificial intelligence, and at the other a quarter of the population still don't have the skills to do more than consume digital products.