“Snap-n-Eat”

SNAP judgments: A small N acceptability paradigm (SNAP) for linguistic acceptability judgments: Online Appendices

Eat to Live or Live to Eat?

Life in most of the world’s urban societies is increasingly sedentary. People neither toil in the fields nor hunt for food. With little need for mobility, there’s easy access to plenty of food that is loaded with sugar, fat, preservatives, and calories. The so-called ‘‘western diet’’ has brought with it a host of metabolic problems that we have probably never encountered in our evolutionary his...

Snap Code:

This Chapter covers the emissions of airborne particulate matter (PM) from road transport which are due to vehicle tyre and brake wear (SNAP code 070700) and road surface wear (SNAP code 070800). PM emissions from vehicle exhaust are not included. The focus is on primary non-exhaust particles in other words those particles emitted directly as a result of the wear of surfaces and not those resul...

To eat or not to eat, that is the question...

Managing invasive species is a current challenge for biodiversity conservation. A recurring recent suggestion is that by harvesting nonnatives for human consumption, people can control invasive populations. Even though humans may be able to control or eradicate certain populations of nonnative species by harvesting them as food sources, several caveats should be considered before starting these...

Introduction: What to Eat When You Can't Eat

Food is perhaps the most common and most tangible expression of love, care, and concern. The shared sensual delight of cooking and of eating is a remarkably large dimension of the human experience. The prominence of food in life means that both patients and their families can undergo profound emotional and social shifts when illness is accompanied by neither the desire nor the capacity to eat. ...