Inside our foods

Comfort Foods: The Roles Food Plays in Our Lives

The notion of comfort foods is a popular idea, as it yields many positive mood benefits, from relationship bonding to the alleviation of sadness and loneliness. However, when continuously consumed for the sake of counteracting negative emotions, detrimental effects can impact an individual's physical and emotional health. Physical detriments include obesity, unhealthy levels of sugars, sodium, ...

Do we really know the composition of our foods?

We are currently witnessing important changes in the feeding patterns of the world population, especially in developing countries. These changes are leading to higher incidence of overweight, obesity, and non-communicable chronic diseases. These changes are influenced by a series of factors regarding the food, the individual, and the environment, which determine the selection of foods to buy an...

Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution

Dietary intake in the lower Mississippi delta region: results from the Foods of our Delta Study.

OBJECTIVE To collect and evaluate food intake data from a culturally diverse population and compare with national survey data. DESIGN The Foods Of Our Delta Study was a baseline, cross-sectional survey that utilized random-digit dialing methodology to identify the sample. Food intake was obtained from a 24-hour dietary recall administered by computer-assisted telephone interview using the mul...

Our Ubiquitous Computing Home Inside: A Practical Approach Emerging into House and Home

To make practical ubiquitous computing environment for everyday activities especially for house and home, the environment has to be proactively managed by the users at home themselves. This paper introduces an “Our Ubiquitous Computing Home Inside Project” and outlines some of our usercentered information architecture and interaction technique to provide practical ubiquitous computing environme...