background: metabolic syndrome (ms) is defined as a pattern of metabolic disorders including central obesity, insulin resistance or hyperglycemia, high blood pressure, and dyslipidemia. many studies show a clear relationship between diet and components of ms. the aim of the current study was to identify barriers to adherence to dietary recommendations among iranian ms patients. methods: the the...

In this study we have taken different popular sweets samples these are raw material, standard, substandard and loose sweets samples etc. which are mostly consumed by the common people during festive season which include khoya, sugar, Desi Ghee, Besan, Dry fruits, saffron, silver paper, Barffi, pedda, Besan loddo, kajju katlli, Rabbdi, Rasgolla, Gulab Jamun etc. that are available in the local m...

The organizations aim to increase its competitiveness. In this context, they have been searching for new ways to improve their productivity, the quality of their products, and cost reduction. To achieve these goals, it is essential to use the collaborators’ potentials and the relationship among them to find and share tacit knowledge. Since tacit knowledge is stored in people’s mind, it is hard ...

There is no evidence comparing head-to-head the effects of monetary incentives to act and to abstain from acting on behaviour. We present an experiment, conducted between June and September 2012, that directly compares the effects of those two different monetary incentive schemes on eating behaviour: we evaluate incentives to eat against incentives not to eat. A large number of participants (n ...

OBJECTIVE Attentional biases for food-related stimuli may be associated separately with obesity, disordered eating, and hunger. We tested an integrative model that simultaneously examines the association of body mass index (BMI), disordered eating and hunger with food-related visual attention to processed foods that differ in added fat/sugar level (e.g., sweets, candies, fried foods) relative t...

Few studies have examined the associations between dietary patterns and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) or whether they differ by race. This was evaluated using data from a population-based case-control study (2002-2006) including 1,176 cases of head and neck SCC and 1,317 age-, race-, and gender-matched controls from central and eastern North Carolina whose diets had been assessed ...