Averting a world food shortage: tighten your belts for CAIRO II

NTDB® data points. Tighten your belt.

Hospital discharge status According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the resident population of the U.S. exceeded 300 million, which represents an increase of 9.7 percent over the 2000 census. The most populous state was California, the least populous was Wyoming, and Texas was the state that had the biggest gain (http://2010. census .gov /news /re l eases / operations/cb10-cn93.html). While the popula...

Time to tighten the belts? Exploring the relationship between savings and obesity

BACKGROUND Literature suggests that the higher the rate of time preference people have, the less likely they are to save for the future. Likewise, it has been hypothesised that rising rates of being overweight/obesity are associated with an increase in peoples' marginal rate of time preference. AIM To investigate the relationship between being overweight/ obese and the rate of time preference...

The alleviation of the world protein shortage.

It is difficult to anticipate the steps which will be taken during the next few decades to cope with the problem of providing adequate food for the ever-increasing world population. Curbs on population growth brought about by war and by contraception may play a part in eking out the world resources but the extent of this contribution is impossible to predict. In any event the nutritionist is no...

The Shortage of Food and Cloth

Water shortage in Australian fast food outlets.