BACKGROUND The English Public Health White Paper proposes introducing smoke-free workplaces except in pubs and bars that do not prepare and serve food. The bar area will be non-smoking in exempted pubs. OBJECTIVE To explore the likely impact of these proposals in UK pubs and bars. METHODS A total of 59 pubs and bars within Greater Manchester in 2001 were chosen. Thirteen were mechanically v...

OBJECTIVE To test whether standard information for patients using Crunchie and Aero chocolate bars to explain bone health and risk of fracture is robust. DESIGN Observational study. SETTING Domestic kitchen in rural west Wales. PARTICIPANTS 10 Crunchie bars and 10 Aero bars. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Fracture after falls from varying heights. RESULTS Both Crunchie and Aero bars exhibited t...

Rice is a major food staple in the world, and provides food for more than one-third of the global population. The monitoring and mapping of paddy rice in a timely and efficient manner is very important for governments and decision makers. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has been proved to be a significant data source in rice monitoring. In this study, RADARSAT-2 polarimetric data were used to si...

snacks play a major role to supply nutritional needs of the armed forces in different operating conditions, because they are considered as a replacement for carbohydrate reserves in muscles after physical activity. the purpose of this study was to formulate and test long-lasting energizing snacks for military on different operations. 6 cereal bars were prepared containing formulations sesame se...

OBJECTIVES We determined the electrocardiographic, vascular and clinical effects of a medical food bar enriched with L-arginine and a combination of other nutrients known to enhance endothelium-derived nitric oxide (NO) in patients with stable angina. BACKGROUND Enhancement of vascular NO by supplementation with L-arginine and other nutrients has been shown to have clinical benefits in patien...

BACKGROUND A feasibility study was conducted to investigate whether an occupational at-risk cohort of women in Mwanza, Tanzania are a suitable study population for future phase III vaginal microbicide trials. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS 1573 women aged 16-54 y working in traditional and modern bars, restaurants, hotels, guesthouses or as local food-handlers were enrolled at community-based...

The physics that is traditionally formulated in one–time-physics (1T-physics) can also be formulated in two-time-physics (2T-physics). The physical phenomena in 1T or 2T physics are not different, but the spacetime formalism used to describe them is. The 2T description involves two extra dimensions (one time and one space), is more symmetric, and makes manifest many hidden features of 1T-physic...

Organic brown rice syrup (OBRS) is a sweetener frequently used as an alternative to high-fructose corn syrup in organic and health food products. In a study of children’s foods, a team of researchers discovered high levels of arsenic in toddler formula products that contained OBRS. Given evidence that arsenic accumulates in rice at high levels, the researchers suspected OBRS was the source of t...