Up to three stores in each of 25 communities were surveyed during September of 2001 for the cost of a specific set of food and nonfood items. The 104 food items selected were taken, with some modification, from the USDA Low-cost Food Plan which is itself based on a nationwide survey of eating habits of Americans, conducted in 1977-78. In addition, the costs of such items as water, propane and e...

Up to three stores in each of 20 communities were surveyed during December of 2001 for the cost of a specific set of food and nonfood items. The 104 food items selected were taken, with some modification, from the USDA Low-cost Food Plan which is itself based on a nationwide survey of eating habits of Americans, conducted in 1977-78. In addition, the costs of such items as water, propane and el...

In humans, psychological stress is positively correlated with an increased desire for certain energy-dense food items, indicating that stress may trigger foraging behavior that adapts to perceived current and future resource availability. However, the extent to which such processes influence desire for different kinds of foods remains unclear. Here, we examine the effects of perceived environme...

Although clinicians and parents widely accept that children with autism spectrum disorder exhibit more feeding problems than their typically developing peers, little information is available concerning the characteristic food items accepted by these children or the possible factors contributing to these feeding problems. This article used an informant-based questionnaire to survey parents of ch...

Objectives: To develop and test a home food checklist that parents can use to assess the availability and visibility of home healthy and unhealthy foods. Methods: The in-house assessment was conducted in the homes of 82 parents and their children (9.8 ± 2.6 years). The Home Food Checklist was completed by both parents and researchers, and tested for criterion and construct validity. The agreeme...

Restaurant recommendation systems are capable of recommending restaurants based on various aspects such as location, facilities and price range. There exists some research that implements restaurant recommendation systems, as well as some famous online recommendation systems such as Yelp. However, automatically rating individual food items of a restaurant based on online customer reviews is an ...

PURPOSE This study examined the internal Cs exposure of residents and the Cs present in food products produced in Namie. Whole-body counter (WBC) was used for the measurement of internal exposure per each whole body of examinees. METHODS The food products which appeared to be used for consumption, were brought by residents and commercially available food items were excluded. Most of them were...

Young omnivores show food neophobia in order to avoid the potential harmful effects of ingesting unfamiliar food items. We investigated whether the presence of the mother and an enriched rearing environment would reduce food neophobia in piglets. A mother may provide information on suitable food types to include in the diet, whereas an enriched environment may stimulate behavioural development ...