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A Synthesis of the Literature on the Relationship Between Food Access and Overweight and Obesity in African American Adolescents [PDF]
, 2013 Food access shapes a community’s nutritional environment and impacts the health and physical well-being of its residents. When a community does not have adequate access to outlets that offer healthy options, it is difficult to maintain a healthy diet ...
Smalls, Marquita Noelle Bullock
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Study of prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension in overweight and obese people
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2014 Context: In recent years, there has been a marked change in life-style of South Asian countries caused by economic growth, affluence, urbanization and dietary westernization.
Abhijit Mandal
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Food waste, date labels, and risk preferences: An experimental exploration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.Abstract This study provides theoretical and experimental evidence that consumers adjust their premeditated food waste by date labels and their risk and loss preferences. The “Use by” date label leads to more premeditated food waste than “Best by” for deli meat and spaghetti sauce.
Norbert Lance Weston Wilson +1 more
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Chitosan for overweight or obesity
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2008 Chitosan, a deacetylated chitin, is a dietary supplement reported to decrease body weight. It is widely available over the counter worldwide and although evaluated in a number of trials its efficacy remains in dispute.To assess the effects of chitosan as a treatment for overweight and obesity.We searched electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, BIOSIS ...
Jull, AB +4 more
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Effectiveness of school-based intervention programs in reducing prevalence of overweight
Indian Journal of Community Medicine, 2014 Objectives: To assess the effectiveness of school-based interventions program in reducing the prevalence of overweight or obesity among schoolchildren.
Sajid Mahmood +4 more
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Antibubbles: evidences of a critical pressure [PDF]
arXiv, 2003 We present experimental investigations of antibubbles. Such an unusual fluid object is a thin spherical air shell surrounding a liquid globule. We explain how to produce them and we study their stability. By overweighting antibubbles with a small amount of salt, they sink and pop at a definite depth.
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Once Again On the Klein Paradox [PDF]
arXiv, 2003 After the short survey of the Klein Paradox in 3-dimensional relativistic equations, we present a detailed consideration of Dirac modified equation, which follows by one particle infinite overweighting in Salpeter Equation. It is shown, that the separation of angular variables and reduction to radial equation is possible by using standard methods in ...
arxiv
Overweight and obesity as determinants of cardiovascular risk: the Framingham experience.
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2002 BACKGROUND To our knowledge, no single investigation concerning the long-term effects of overweight status on the risk for hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, diabetes mellitus, and cardiovascular sequelae has been reported.
P. Wilson +4 more
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Does the abiotic environment influence the distribution of flower and fruit colors?
American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Color in flowers and fruits carries multiple functions, from attracting animal partners (pollinators, dispersers) to mitigating environmental stress (cold, drought, UV‐B). With research historically focusing on biotic interactions as selective agents, however, it remains unclear whether abiotic stressors impact flower and fruit colors ...
Agnes S. Dellinger +3 more
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