In their excellent article, Muraki et al. (1) reported that a greater consumption of potatoes, especially french fries, was associated with a higher type 2 diabetes (T2D) risk, independent of BMI and other risk factors. Similarly, in another very recent interesting article, Bao et al. (2) observed that higher levels of potato consumption before pregnancy were associated with greater risk of ges...

The cognitive representation of a food as being a "snack" or a "meal" influences eating behavior. We found previously that subjects who considered a particular food to be a 'snack' ate significantly more calories when tested later than subjects who considered the same foods as a 'meal'. We conducted two surveys to determine the categorization of foods as "snacks" or "meals". Survey 2 included a...

Directional multiresolution image representations have lately attracted much attention. A number of new systems, such as the curvelet transform and the more recent contourlet transform, have been proposed. A common issue of these transforms is the redundancy in representation, an undesirable feature for certain applications (e.g. compression). Though some critically sampled transforms have also...

processing of round potatoes (solanum tuberosum (l.) into chips in tanzania and particularlydar es salaam city is a growing business that attract low wages employees and unemployed occupants. proliferationof chips vendors with low knowledge, poor attitude and practice towards environment have resulted into poormanagement of potato peels waste which are haphazardly disposed of thus causing unhea...

Background: The ecological approach to agriculture causes the desire eliminate pesticides. Work is underway replace them with natural agents. Aim: aim of research was introduce an innovative factor and non-invasively increase yield dry matter starch thus improve quality raw material for production potato-enriched products. Material methods: field experiment carried out in central-eastern Poland...