Drawing on FAO’s definition of “sustainable diet”, we propose a “sustainable food pyramid” (SFP) which aims to eradicate malnutrition, promote health and protect the environment. These aspirational objectives require changes in the productive system, eating habits of the population, and rebalancing power relations between all actors in the food chain. This study addresses the psychosocial attit...

Adult cats were trained to use a forelimb to open a hinged door against resistance for a food reward. Normal cats performed the task with only toe or wrist motions. Cats with unilateral complete bulbar pyramid section showed persistent deficits in distal limb movements with toe fanning, wrist stiffness and pulling from elbow and shoulder. Partial medial or lateral pyramid lesions produced simil...

The food chain refers to a natural system by which energy is transmitted from one organism to another. In fact, a food chain consists of producers, consumers and decomposition. Presence of complex food web increase the stability of the ecosystem. Classical food chain theory arises from Lotka-Volterra model. In the present paper, the dynamics behavior of three level food chain is studied. A syst...

Nutritional status, dietary and leisure-time physical activity patterns, and energy intake of 65 male metalworkers aged 19 to 58 years from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, are described in the context of a surveillance build-up system. Mean body mass index was 25.0 kg/m2 (44.6% of the workers were overweight), and mean daily energy intake was 3,209.1 kcal, with a macronutrient distribution of 17.8%, 21...

Objective: To find an association between diet and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and carcinoma prostate (CaP). Methodology: Ninety three out of 250 subjects were selected representing the normals, BPH and CaP cases; food frequency questionnaire was duly filled. Food intake was calculated by using food guide pyramid and was categorized as low, moderate and high. In addition to common diets,...

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportions world-wide. OBJECTIVE To compare the types of food in the diet and the nutrient intake of obese children with those of non-obese children. METHODS A total of 95 obese and 592 non-obese children aged between 6 and 10 years participated in the study. A body mass index (BMI) value exceeding the 95th percentile for age and gender was...

Consumption patterns are changing globally. As a result both researchers and policy makers require simple, easy to use measures of diet quality. The Healthy Eating Index (HEI) was developed as a single, summary measure of diet quality. The original HEI was a ten component index based on the US Dietary Guidelines and the Food Guide Pyramid. Research on the HEI indicates that the index correlates...

background: dietary guidelines are considered as a useful tool for the promotion of healthy dietary behaviors. in iran, despite the development of the latest national food‑based dietary guidelines, in 2006, it has not been introduced at the community level yet. the present study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention program to promote iran’s food‑based dietary guidelines (ifbdgs...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to provide national estimates of whole-grain intake in the United States, identify major dietary sources of whole grains and compare food and nutrient intakes of whole-grain consumers and nonconsumers. METHODS Data were collected from 9,323 individuals age 20 years and older in USDA's 1994-96 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals through in...