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The Dietary Guidelines for Americans from the basis for all federal nutrition programs and incorporate the Food Guide Pyramid, a tool to educate consumers on putting the Guidelines into practice. The Pyramid recommends two to three daily servings of dairy products. However, research has shown that lactase nonpersistence, the loss of enzymes that digest the milk sugar lactose, occurs in a majori...

Improving food security and nutrition in the developing world remains among society's most intractable challenges and continues despite a wide variety of investments. Both donor- and enterprise-led initiatives, for example, have explored including smallholder farmers in their value chains. However, these efforts have had only modest success, partly because the private and development sectors pr...

Background: Due to the importance of nutrition during pregnancy and its role in future generations' health, the study tried to determine dietary diversity and its relationship with newborns' anthropometric indices at birth. Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 400 pregnant women (28-40 weeks of pregnancy) whom were referred to the health centers in Zahedan were studied in 2016. To assess the...

Food waste (FW) represents one of the greatest concerns facing mankind today; thus, UN Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development establishes that it must be halved by 2030. European Union legislators have taken part in this debate publishing Directive 2018/851 to monitor FW reduction goals, according hierarchical pyramid approach. At present, there are several proposed pyramids, but these do not ...

We examine the task of separating types from brands in the food domain. Framing the problem as a ranking task, we convert simple textual features extracted from a domain-specific corpus into a ranker without the need of labeled training data. Such method should rank brands (e.g. sprite) higher than types (e.g. lemonade). Apart from that, we also exploit knowledge induced by semisupervised graph...

Data were obtained through an open question survey about nutrition, hydration, balanced diet and healthy eating prior to a talk and various educational games (food pyramid, drawings, plasticine games...) to strengthen knowledge. In the second day of school we conducted the same survey, assessing their recently learned skills. Teachers were in charge of strengthening the information provided dur...