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A Nutritional Label for Rankings [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Management of Data, 2018 Algorithmic decisions often result in scoring and ranking individuals to determine credit worthiness, qualifications for college admissions and employment, and compatibility as dating partners. While automatic and seemingly objective, ranking algorithms can discriminate against individuals and protected groups, and exhibit low diversity.
Ke Yang (192709) +5 more
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“Front-of-pack” nutrition labeling
Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 2021 Excess intake of energy, sugars, salt and saturated fats is an important causal factor of obesity and related non-communicable diseases. In order to help consumers to make healthy food choices, many European countries have developed proposals for "front-of-pack" food labeling, intended as an integration to the nutritional information provided by the ...
Strazzullo Pasquale +33 more
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Nutrition labelling tidbits [PDF]
Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2004 On Jan. 1, 2003, the Government of Canada introduced a new nutrition labelling system through amendments to regulations pertaining to the Food and Drugs Act. The regulations make nutrition labelling on most prepackaged foods mandatory and standardize the content and design of nutrition labels ...
Erica Weir, Wendy Levin, Marie Traynor
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Muti-Stage Hierarchical Food Classification [PDF]
, 2023 Food image classification serves as a fundamental and critical step in image-based dietary assessment, facilitating nutrient intake analysis from captured food images. However, existing works in food classification predominantly focuses on predicting 'food types', which do not contain direct nutritional composition information.
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An objective examination of consumer perception of nutrition information based on healthiness ratings [PDF]
, 2007 Objective. Previous research on nutrition labelling has mainly used subjective measures. This study examines the effectiveness of two types of nutrition label using two objective measures: eye movements and healthiness ratings. Design. Eye movements were
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How Do Consumers Use Nutrition Labels on Food Products in the United States? [PDF]
, 2017 This study examined how consumers use food labels in the United States. Based on the results from the cluster analysis, eight nutrition label questions from the Health and Diet Survey fell into 2 categories of label usage: for shopping or for dietary ...
Andrews, J. Craig +4 more
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Nutrition Labels and Obesity [PDF]
, 2006 The Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) imposed significant changes in the information about calories and nutrients that manufacturers of packaged foods must provide to consumers. This paper tests whether the release of this information impacted body weight and obesity among American adults.
Jayachandran N. Variyam, John Cawley
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Relationships among food label use, motivation, and dietary quality. [PDF]
, 2015 Nutrition information on packaged foods supplies information that aids consumers in meeting the recommendations put forth in the US Dietary Guidelines for Americans such as reducing intake of solid fats and added sugars. It is important to understand how
Applegate, Elizabeth A +6 more
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Nutrition5k: Towards Automatic Nutritional Understanding of Generic Food [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Understanding the nutritional content of food from visual data is a challenging computer vision problem, with the potential to have a positive and widespread impact on public health. Studies in this area are limited to existing datasets in the field that lack sufficient diversity or labels required for training models with nutritional understanding ...
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Toward the Cure of Privacy Policy Reading Phobia: Automated Generation of Privacy Nutrition Labels From Privacy Policies [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Software applications have become an omnipresent part of modern society. The consequent privacy policies of these applications play a significant role in informing customers how their personal information is collected, stored, and used. However, customers rarely read and often fail to understand privacy policies because of the ``Privacy Policy Reading ...
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