Where to eat?

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...

What do otters eat where there is no fish?

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...

Where Not to Eat? Improving Public Policy by Predicting Hygiene Inspections Using Online Reviews

This paper offers an approach for governments to harness the information contained in social media in order to make public inspections and disclosure more efficient. As a case study, we turn to restaurant hygiene inspections – which are done for restaurants throughout the United States and in most of the world and are a frequently cited example of public inspections and disclosure. We present t...

To eat or not to eat: The NICE way

The conference covered several contemporary topics like apoptosis, angiogenesis and several interesting and insightful talks were presented by the delegates. The keynote addresses ' Cancer predisposition', on the opening day by Dr. HT Lynch, the father of lynch syndrome, a hereditary non polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) is a highlight of the symposium. There were several talks on dietary inf...