PEDIATRIC ORIGINAL ARTICLE Fast food‚ other food choices and body mass index in teenagers in the United Kingdom (ALSPAC): a structural equation modelling approach LK Fraser1‚ KL Edwards2‚ JE Cade3 and GP Clarke1 1 School of Geography‚ University of Leeds‚ Leeds‚ UK; 2Division of Biostatistics‚ University of Leeds‚ Leeds‚ UK and 3Nutritional Epidemiology Group‚ University of Leeds‚ Leeds‚ UK Objective: To assess the association between the consumption of fast food (FF) and body mass index (BMI)
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Food‚ Inc. is one means by which the American food economic system is analyzed. This documentary film shows how American food economic system follows the idea of capitalism and how it affects the food industry. Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned and development is proportionate to the accumulation and reinvestment of profits gained in a free market. A free market economy is based on supply and demand with little or
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side of fast food Nowadays a problem of fast food is widespread all over the world. Fast food restaurants are situated almost in every country. The most popular of them are McDonald’s‚ Burger King’s‚ KFC restaurants. Even if it is easy to buy and cheap‚ the health risks outweigh the five minutes of satisfaction that fast food brings. One should carefully think before they eat fast food because there is disadvantages in the fast food. The health risks that come from eating so much fast food are life-threatening
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“Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food‚” by Bryan Walsh‚ (2009) was interesting but a stomach churning read. As I leaped through the paragraphs‚ I could imagine the nausea that the average animal-loving Americans might think after reading how animals are treated on corporate farms. It is a given that in this article‚ not only are the animals seemingly just for profit; the American public is viewed essentially the same. Walsh makes points throughout the article about the crops and livestock
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Fresh Foods versus Canned Foods Eating is an activity that we as humans do at least two times a day. We live in a world where the variety of food is immense‚ and we are responsible for what we eat. We decide what we are about to eat and how it will affect our bodies. However‚ each food differs from one to another. For example are the fresh food and the canned food. Fresh foods and canned foods are two kinds of different types of food that have their own benefits and disadvantages. The most notable
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Food adulteration is the act of intentionally debasing the quality of food offered for sale either by the admixture or substitution of inferior substances or by the removal of some valuable ingredient. Food is declared adulterated if: • a substance is added which depreciates or injuriously affects it • cheaper or inferior substances are substituted wholly or in part • any valuable or necessary constituent has been wholly or in part abstracted • it is an imitation • it is coloured
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Analysis: Food Inc. Have we ever wondered where our foods in America come from or “it is a world deliberately hidden from us”. Our daily consumption of food is trusted on few big capitalized corporations who run the food industry‚ what do we know about them? Robert Kenner and Eric Schlosser illustrates the true facts about our food industry by a documentary named Food‚ Inc. This documentary is more or less broken down in a ¬¬form of chapters‚ using supportive authors of several books on food industry
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Food Waste? Too valuable to waste! According to statistics from the Environmental Protection Department‚ in Hong Kong‚ solid waste generated daily weighs around 17000 tones‚ of which around 30% is organic matter (2700 tones) which is roughly equal to 120 double-deck buses in size. Compared this to the US where‚ revealed by the Environmental Protection Agency‚ only 12% of waste stream was scrap of food in 2005. Extra care in disposal is required for these putrescible wastes‚ otherwise nuisance
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Food poisoning is an illness caused by eating contaminated food. Food poisoning is a term given to infections with bacteria‚ viruses‚ or toxins from germs that affects humans via contaminated food or water. Today I would to talk about causes‚ symptom‚ and treatment of food poisoning. Food Poisoning caused by a lot of problem. That is clean‚ check‚ separate‚ cook‚ chill‚ throw away. First is clean. Before we cook the ingredient‚ we need to clean the ingredient properly and check again before
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1. What is street food? FAO defines the street food as food sold at various points to ease consumer access at a low cost affordable by the poor. Street foods are ready-to-eat foods and beverages prepared and/or sold by vendors or hawkers especially in the streets and other similar places. 2. Why are the people addicted in eating street foods? Street foods may be the least expensive and most accessible means of obtaining a nutritionally balanced meal outside the home for many low income people
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