BALANCED DIETS: ANALYZING RESTRICTIVE EUROCENTRISM IN NUTRITION STANDARDS

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Discrete Interval Encoding Trees (Diets) are data structures for the representation of fat, i.e. densely populated sets over a discrete linear order. In this paper we introduce algorithms for set-theoretic operations like intersection, union, etc. on sets represented as balanced diets. We empirically analyse their performance and show that these algorithms can outperform previously known algori...

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Highly Restrictive Standards Promote Self - Regulatory Failure

Title of Document: WHEN GUIDELINES BECOME DEMANDS: HIGHLY RESTRICTIVE STANDARDS PROMOTE SELFREGULATORY FAILURE. Steven G. Buzinski, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011 Directed By: Professor Harold Sigall, Ph.D. Department of Psychology University of Maryland Self-regulation is often defined as the process of altering one’s thoughts, feelings, or behaviors in order to attain, or maintain, some desired s...

Food Standards Agency: nutrition.

The Food Standards Agency undertakes a range of activities with the aim of improving the dietary health of the population and determining how best to communicate key messages to achieve dietary change. Activities include obtaining sound evidence from research and surveys, and seeking advice from independent experts. Work is also undertaken to inform and motivate the population about diet and to...

Food standards and nutrition.

The Food and Drugs Act 1955 This Act contains a number of general provisions that relate directly or indirectly to nutrition. Section I provides that no person shall add anything to or abstract anything from food, or subject food to any other process or treatment, so as to render it injurious to health. Section 2 makes it an offence to sell food to the prejudice of the purchaser that is not of ...