Thomas M. NEWSOME* Desert Ecology Research Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia; Global Trophic Cascades Program, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA and Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria 3125, Austral...

Even the " intelligent, highly reactive personality " must, 30mehow, come to terms with his environment by a process of mutual interaction, failing which the result can only be withdrawal, which may well be an element in psychopathology. This may be the reason why genius is so often associated with disease and must therefore be regarded as abnormal. It is, of course, not necessarily the "health...

Abstract Aim: Veterans may have improper eating behaviors and food habits. Therefore, this study is designed to investigate the eating behaviors and food habits of veterans via the nutritional knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP) model in Zahedan City. Methodology: In a descriptive, cross-sectional study, 369 veterans admitted to the Veterans Foundation in Zahedan were selected. After re...

Sin,?Tf is not only in the public houses where we should look for national income disappearing down the throat. I have had opportunities of studying Insurance Act prescriptions which lead me to think that a good deal of the money is wasted. Many of the prescriptions relate to drugs which are totally inactive when tested in the wards of a hospital; if they act at all it is only through the bless...

This study aimed to illuminate factors that undermine the healthy habits of adolescents from a multicultural community with low socioeconomic status (S.E.S.) in Sweden with regard to physical activity (P.A.) and food, as stated in their own voices. Adolescents (n = 53, 12-13 y/o) were recruited from one school situated in a multicultural community characterized by low S.E.S. Embracing an interp...

Food can have a mighty biological, therapeutic and preventive effect, yet its breakdown can provide the perfect setting for tooth decay and its implications, diseases of the periodontium and the oral mucosa. Due to the high incidence of periodontal and hard dental tissues pathologies among adolescents they have been ranked as socially significant diseases. A damaged dental-jaw apparatus may lea...

INTRODUCTION A sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits are major causes of a negative energy balance and excess body weight. The lifestyle of the Mediterranean diet eating pattern significantly reduces risk factors for non communicable diseases. Moreover, emotions have a powerful effect on feeding behavior. There is a direct relationship between food choices (type and amount), emotions ...

carnivores play great ecological roles in ecosystems because of placing on top of the food pyramid. food habits of large carnivores are associated with important ecological features such as spatial pattern, movement, habitat selection, social structure, geographical distribution and reproductive success. accordingly, in this study was used scat analysis to determine the diet of persian leopards...

OBJECTIVE To discover how college students conduct dinner groups and perceptions of the benefits and difficulties of participation. DESIGN Qualitative study conducted with 7 focus groups. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A university campus, with 36 students participating in dinner groups, defined as a group of 3 people or more cooking for one another (or together) and eating together at least 4 ti...