Diet and health: what should we eat?

P3: Food and Behavior: Long Chain Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids and Anxiety

The anecdote "we are what we eat" in line with the doctrine of Hypocrates in 400 BC “Let food be thy medicine and medicine thy food” are vividly portray the importance of daily regimen in human health and body well-functioning. There is a growing body of evidence that suggests the relative intake of specific nutrients can have a profound effect on physiology of individuals...

Primatol . , 4 : 407 - 414 , 1978 A GENERAL MODEL OF OPTIMAL DIET

Recent field studies of primates, such as those reported in this symposium, have greatly extended our knowledge of what primates eat in the wild and have clearly demonstrated that each primate is, in its own way, a selective feeder. If we want to substantiate a claim that this selective feeding is adaptive, we must show that there is a reasonable approximation of what the animals eat to what th...

Should I Diet? What Should I Eat? Different Decision Making Factors Predict Dieting Intentions versus Actual Dietary Behavior

Women and Nutrition

Proverbs concerning food and eating abound in our society. From “You are what you eat” to the well known adaptation “A Mars a Day.....!”. Eating is an important physiological event with significant health implications. We all need to consume a certain number of nutritional elements in our diet, thus the often quoted ‘balanced diet’. However, food and eating also have great social and cultural s...

The Diet-Aware Dining Table: Observing Dietary Behaviors over a Tabletop Surface

We are what we eat. Our everyday food choices affect our long-term and short-term health. In the traditional health care, professionals assess and weigh each individual’s dietary intake using intensive labor at high cost. In this paper, we design and implement a diet-aware dining table that can track what and how much we eat. To enable automated food tracking, the dining table is augmented with...

Using health care data to track and improve public health.

JAMA: What do you do to stay healthy? DRMURTHY: I can tell you what I do, but I don’t want people to think that’s what they should do. I meditate every morning, and I practice yoga periodically. I do it [meditate] because forme it’s an important part ofmy emotional andmentalwell-being. I seeemotional and mental well-being as one of the key pillars of a healthy lifestyle. Nutrition, physical act...