Sentences with phrase «when higher consumption»

The result is called the rebound effect, and it takes place when higher consumption undercuts the energy savings produced by a given technology.

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Also pretty cool is a feature on the app that can monitor your drink consumption and send you an alert when your estimated blood alcohol level is high.
When you tax something too high, you reduce consumption.
If you just charge people a lower price when there's a lot of wind and sun (when the supply of electricity is abundant and cheap) and a higher price at times when there's not, they'll reduce consumption when electricity is scarce.
As Jose Lutzenberger when Minister of Environment in Brazil, said: «If development is to be the continuation of the present mode and we must help the developing countries to reach our level of affluence, while the developed countries must still continue developing to even higher levels of consumption, then what we are doing is suicidal» (1991, p. 11).
As healthy eating continues to dominate consumers» minds when choosing where to eat, chain restaurants in New York City are required to put warnings on high sodium foods under a new law that is meant to reduce salt consumption.
A Mexico City - based study has shown that daily consumption of green peas along with other legumes lowers risk of stomach cancer (gastric cancer), especially when daily coumestrol intake from these legumes is approximately 2 milligrams or higher.
During the summer period when the outside temperature is higher the electricity consumption is also higher.
Other studies have found similar unhealthy food outcomes when countries enter trade or investment deals with the U.S. Examples include increased sugary soft - drink consumption in Vietnam and a spike in high - fructose corn syrup sweeteners in Canada (adding an extra 42 calories per day) following NAFTA's full implementation in 1998.
Dates are high in fructose which is not ideal if you're trying to keep your sugar consumption low, however, their high fibre content slows down the fructose absorption and when combined with protein (in the form of nuts here) this also acts to slow it down.
When I was in high school, illicit consumption of Adderall was common.
Another by University of Chicago economists suggests «trickle - down consumptionwhen the rich spend on high - end goods, that influences the non-rich around them to also spend to keep up.
When you include dairy products in your diet you reap many health benefits, from the consumption of nine essential nutrients to weight management, protection against certain cancers and osteoporosis, and a reduction in your risk for high blood pressure.
In the same way that soda made with cane sugar in lieu of high fructose corn syrup is not a healthful beverage, there needs to be a clear message that «slime - free» ground beef is by no means the golden standard, especially when an ever - growing body of research continues to highlight the harmful effects of red meat consumption (the latest: it «contributes substantially to premature death»).
And when you heard their stories about the high - rolling years of conspicuous consumption and saw legions of half - finished, semi-derelict housing developments littering the countryside, you began to see their point.
WMG is researching pioneering technology which predicts when machinery requires the shift between low power and high power, thus allowing users to run the machine with the lowest fuel consumption without sacrificing their working performance.
Furthermore, the proportion of people exceeding the recommended upper limit of 10 % of energy from added sugars was far higher when ultra-processed food consumption was high, rising to more than 80 % among those who ate the most ultra-processed foods.
Given the right financial incentives, though, many households may accept smart grid strategies that let utilities reduce power consumption in homes at peak periods of demand, when wholesale electricity prices are highest, some analysts conclude.
For example, one study found that cheese reduced «bad» cholesterol when compared to butter with the same fat content, suggesting that high cheese consumption could help explain the French paradox.
The result is that you can use large amounts of energy at night to heat up the thermal mass of the building, after which you can turn off the heating altogether in the morning peak and during the daytime, when the total power consumption and energy price are at their highest.
When the investigators looked at patients» pre-transplant characteristics, they found that high body mass index and cirrhosis caused by alcohol consumption were linked with an increased risk of developing steatosis.
Others have reported that certain kinds of artificial light can improve sleep and reduce depression and agitation in people with Alzheimer's disease; that higher air temperatures seem to curb calorie consumption; that employees take more sick leave when they work in open - plan offices; and that children in daylight - drenched classrooms progress faster in maths and reading than do those in darker ones.
When the family meal environment quality was better at age 6, higher levels of general fitness and lower levels of soft - drink consumption were observed at age 10.
First identified by William Jevons in 1865 — when he noticed more efficient engines increased rather than reduced coal use, as engines were put into more widespread use — the rebound effect for higher yields could see food prices drop, encouraging greater consumption, more food waste and even more conversion of habitats to farmland.
In the UTMB study, the researchers investigated the impact that high levels of fructose consumption throughout pregnancy had on the offspring when they are adults.
As worldwide development manager for California - based Intel, the world's largest semiconductor maker, Clarke extols the memory retention of flash chips — which can store data even when their power is off — and their other virtues, such as hardiness, high data density and low power consumption.
«When we consider that research has shown much higher consumption rates in people attending licensed venues, this study suggests the need for our policy makers to get serious about addressing this issue,» added Peter G. Miller, associate professor of psychology at Deakin University, Geelong Waterfront Campus in Australia.
The improvement in overall postprandial glycaemia was largely accounted for by lower blood glucose levels after the evening meal, when carbohydrate consumption was high and participants tended to be more sedentary»
The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).
«Increased meat consumption, especially when cooked at high temperatures, linked to elevated kidney cancer risk: Individuals with certain genetic variations more vulnerable to dietary risk.»
And when you do repeated speed intervals, you're creating a bigger «afterburn,» with oxygen consumption (and therefore caloric expenditure) staying high as your body works to return to its pre-exercise state.
However, when you decrease carb consumption after an extended period of higher carb intake, the body will find it difficult to maintain muscle mass and you can be at risk of catabolism — but that will happen only if you don't readjust your protein intake.
I was surprised by this study when it first came out since historically, Asian countries with high consumption of white rice still had low incidence of diabetes.
At a time when sugar and salt consumption is at an all - time high, I like to help my digestive system perform at its best with plenty of water plus the anti-inflammatory benefits of ginger and honey.
This occurs when an overgrowth of brewers yeast in the body creates high amounts of alcohol after carbohydrate consumption.
Therefore, HIIT is a better option when it comes to a total body workout, providing the benefits from aerobic performance (high oxygen consumption), whereas with the anaerobic training your body gets stronger and builds muscle.
Several recent studies have shown that even light and moderate alcohol consumption is linked to higher cancer risk — yet when the California government proposed warning labels, alcohol companies fought back, giving new rise to a decades - long debate on the topic.
The overuse of drugs, especially when it is coupled with the consumption of a western diet (low in fruits and vegetables and high in sugar, salt, refined grains, alcohol and ultra-processed foods that combine sugar, fat, flour, salt and various additives, especially emulsifiers), can change the delicate and complex balance of our gut's ecosystem, leading to intestinal dysbiosis and increased intestinal permeability, both of which are believed to play an important role in the development and exacerbation of various chronic degenerative diseases.
All men naturally have a small amount of estrogen in their bodies, but when alcohol consumption causes estrogen levels to rise abnormally high while at the same time as suppressing testosterone, problems can arise (or NOT «arise», as the case may be).
Colon cancer occurs when high levels of dietary vegetable oils and hydrogenated fats, along with certain carcinogens, are acted on by certain enzymes in the cells lining the colon, leading to tumor formation.14 This explains the fact that in industrialized countries, where there are many carcinogens in the diet and where consumption of vegetable oils and carcinogens is high, some studies have correlated meat - eating with colon cancer; but in traditional societies, where vegetable oils are absent and the food is free of additives, meat - eating is not associated with cancer.
High consumption of Vitamin C may cause loose bowel movements, especially when yeast and parasites are being removed.
It was found that individuals with a higher consumption of dietary magnesium had a 12 % reduced risk of stroke, a 10 % reduced risk of coronary heart disease, and a 26 % reduced risk of type - 2 diabetes when compared with individuals that had the lowest consumption of dietary magnesium.
So yes, there are some people that a low carbohydrate diet, the majority I would say would help partly because our consumption of refined carbohydrate and sugar is higher, but there are some people when they're chronically load, they may increase that carbohydrate just a bit.
Curcumin: The curcumin spice was first discovered for his brain health benefits when epidemiological studies revealed that regions with a high consumption of curry had fewer reported cases of Alzheimer's disease.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Absolutely so when we look at blood pressure, one of the biggest things that will throw your minerals off and cause a higher than normal blood pressure is increased fructose consumption, i.e. sugar and just increased elevations of insulin.
There are far bigger fish to fry, for example, when we compare the effects of eating too much salt, to the consumption of a high carbohydrate diet, which increases the risk of diabetes by 44 % and the risk of CVD by 25 % (5).
Coconut oil was feared for years due to its high saturated fat content, but that fear was put to rest when studies showed there wasn't enough correlation with the consumption of saturated fat and heart disease.
The problem is getting a handle on what exactly this means, particularly when these same changes seem to have no effect on lipid levels, and the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease is at best weakly associated with high salt consumption (15 % increase in risk).
But when I enter what I eat in myfitnesspal.com my sugar consumption is high, even though we do 20 % fruit to 80 % vegetable in our juices, and the foods we eat are not so carb - y.
When consumption deviated from the 2,645 — 4,945 mg range mortality increased, so that both excessively high and low consumption of sodium were associated with reduced survival.
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