Can Food Porn Make Us Slim? How Brains of Consumers React to Food in Digital Environments

How can natural brains help us compute?

A model of biologically inspired natural computing is reviewed. Recurrent neural networks are set up so as to take advantage of emergent spatiotemporal chaotic regimes. Seminal work explaining the emergence of complexity in initially homogeneous physical and biological systems can be attributed to Alan Turing himself. Dynamical complexity provides a variety of computational modes and rich input...

Skin wrinkling: can food make a difference?

OBJECTIVES This study addressed whether food and nutrient intakes were correlated with skin wrinkling in a sun-exposed site. METHODS 177 Greek-born subjects living in Melbourne (GRM), 69 Greek subjects living in rural Greece (GRG), 48 Anglo-Celtic Australian (ACA) elderly living in Melbourne and 159 Swedish subjects living in Sweden (SWE) participating in the International Union of Nutritiona...

How Food Industries Can Help in Preventing Childhood Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome?

Segmentation of US consumers based on food safety attitudes

Purpose – The purpose of this research paper is to segment US consumers based on their attitudes towards food safety and to demographically characterize each segment so that effective risk communication strategies and outreach programs may be developed to target vulnerable groups. Design/methodology/approach – Factor analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis were applied to data on consumer fo...

Beyond Neighborhood Food Environments: Distance Traveled to Food Establishments in 5 US Cities, 2009–2011

INTRODUCTION Accurate conceptualizations of neighborhood environments are important in the design of policies and programs aiming to improve access to healthy food. Neighborhood environments are often defined by administrative units or buffers around points of interest. An individual may eat and shop for food within or outside these areas, which may not reflect accessibility of food establishme...