INTRODUCTION Smoking is generally not regulated in restaurants or bars in China, or the restrictions are not fully implemented if there are any, while the related hazard health effects are not recognized by the majority of the Chinese population. OBJECTIVES This study aims to assess the excess health risks and mortality attributed to secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure in restaurants and bars for...

OBJECTIVES To compare restaurant marketing by restaurant and neighborhood type. METHODS All restaurants (61=fast food, FF; 72=table service, TS) within an 800-meter radius of 13 public housing developments (HD) and 4 comparison neighborhoods were audited using the Restaurant Assessment Tool©2010. HD neighborhoods were lower income and higher minority than comparison neighborhoods with similar...

INTRODUCTION Despite extensive knowledge about effective tobacco control interventions, the prevalence of tobacco use in many middle- and low-income countries continues to rise. In these countries, public appreciation of levels of protection provided by laws and regulations on tobacco use and exposure to tobacco smoke is limited. After ratification of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control...

This paper explores New York City’s new mandatory information disclosure policy of posting hygiene quality grade cards on restaurant windows. I find that the dual inspection process (initial inspection and re-inspection) has been exploited by restaurants. In particular, after getting an A card in the re-inspection, restaurants frequently revert back to the previous bad hygiene conditions by the...

OBJECTIVES This study tested whether days on campus, financial access through a meal plan, and health consciousness were associated with number of meals that college students obtained from fast food restaurants. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS In April 2013, all students currently enrolled in a meal plan were invited to participate in an online survey (N = 1,246). Students were asked to report the t...

In 2007, Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department launched a restaurant menu labeling project called SmartMenu. The objective was to recruit locally owned restaurants to voluntarily post basic nutrition information on their menus or menu boards. Participating restaurants submitted recipes to an independent contractor for nutritional analysis and agreed to post calorie, fat, carbohydrate, and sodi...

A field trial on the control effect of fipronil poison bait against German cockroaches (Blatella germanica) was carried out at different restaurant types in Sinchon, Seoul, Republic of Korea. Monitoring was performed applying food baited traps for 2 days per week. Reduction rates of German cockroaches by applying fipronil baits were 90.9% at Korean restaurants, 96.4% at Chinese restaurants, and...

This paper presents a new method for extracting unique features of items based on their textual reviews. The method is built of two similar iterations of applying a weighting scheme and then clustering the resultant set of vectors. In the first iteration, restaurants of similar food genres are grouped together into clusters. The second iteration reduces the importance of common terms in each su...

In total, 44 countries were included in the present study. This group comprised the 20 most populated countries of the world, the five most populated countries of each continent and a few other countries that were included in a recent nutritional study [3]. The number of McDonald’s restaurants per million inhabitants was calculated for each of these countries (www.mcdonalds.com). Countries were...