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1 Brillinger, AnneDiet; If you go "On" a diet, you're bound to go "OffIf you go "ON" a diet, you're bound to go "OF". Diet is a four-letter word. Just ask the millions of frustrated overweight Americans who've struggled to stay on one. Making fairly simple lifestyle changes can improve how you feelDiet; Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis; Body Mass Index; Food Guide Pyramid2000-03
2 Nelson, ChristopherGender makes a differenceGender makes a difference when it comes to diet. Diet is much more individualized than originally thought. Men tend to lose weight more easily than women because they have more lean tissue, which is metabolically active. However some of the most important determinants of success or failure may turn ...Diet; Gender2000-03
3 Dwan, JohnIgnored medical problemA physician who doesn't recommend that a patient stop smoking is hard to find. Few, however, try to help patients lose weight, even though a recent National Institutes of Health (NIH) study showed that at least 300,000 deaths each year can be attributed to being overweight, obese or severely overwei...Diet; Life Style; Therapeutic Aspects; Science of nutrition2000-03
4 Dwan, JohnMaybe your genes made you eat itAnother snack? The queston is: why do people eat? Is it anxiety, habbit, immediate gratification? Or, do your genes make you do it? Could there be a genetic predisposition to obesity , a genetic defect that makes some people hungrier more often than others? If a genetic link is found and a drug can ...Genetic Factors; Diet; Predisposion to Obesity2000-03
5 Vernon, Kenneth B.Numic fires: modeling the effects of anthropogenic fire on foraging decisions in the Great BasinAcross Western North America, hunter-gatherers modified their surrounding environment with the application of fire (1; 11; 15). However, to date we lack a general theoretical framework to investigate the reasons why people would burn or its effects on traditional foraging economies. To begin to fill...Behavioral ecology; Diet; Fire2015
6 Kowaleski-Jones, Lori; Fan, Jessie Xiaojing; Brown, Barbara B.; Smith, Ken R.; Zick, Cathleen D.Patterns of household food expenditures: a cluster analysisIn this study we use the Diary Survey component of the 2001 and 2002 Consumer Expenditure Survey to investigate patterns of household food expenditures. We identify eight constellations of food expenditures that are more and less likely to be associated with healthy eating habits. These clusters in...Diet; Fast food; Nutrition; Eating habits2007
7 Fan, Jessie Xiaojing; Brown, Barbara B.; Kowaleski-Jones, Lori; Smith, Ken R.; Zick, Cathleen D.Patterns of household food expenditures: a cluster analysisIn this study we use the Diary Survey component of the 2001 and 2002 Consumer Expenditure Survey to investigate patterns of household food expenditures. We identify eight constellations of food expenditures that are more and less likely to be associated with healthy eating habits. These clusters in...Diet; Fast food; Nutrition; Eating habits2006-09-01
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