background & aim: considering the inevitable side effects of chemical drugs, nowadays, herbal medicine has gained a special importance. cinnamon of lauraceae family, is commonly used as a food spice and medicine. it is famous to be, antimicrobial, anti-oxidant, anti-diabetic, anti-viral, and antispastic. it also prevents abdominal bloating, increases sweating and uterus muscle constrictions...

The impact of television (TV) advertisements (commercials) on children's eating behaviour and health is of critical interest. In a preliminary study we examined lean, over weight and obese children's ability to recognise eight food and eight non-food related adverts in a repeated measures design. Their consumption of sweet and savoury, high and low fat snack foods were measured after both sessi...

Obesity is among the greatest challenges facing healthcare systems with 20% of the world's population afflicted. Great controversy exists whether obesity can be regarded as an addictive disorder or not. Recently the Yale Food Addiction Scale questionnaire has been developed as a tool to identify individuals with traits of addiction towards food. Using clinical and source localized EEG data we d...

This paper brings attention to the effects of PRWORA on householdlevel Food Stamps recipiency, Food Stamps allotments, and food security among children of immigrants using the Survey of Program Dynamics. This paper further seeks to examine the affect of cutbacks on welfare allotments on “mixed status” families and whether any such changes in Food Stamps receipt and allotments led to higher leve...

This study investigates individual differences in the reinforcing value of snack food. More specifically, it was investigated whether differences in restraint status are associated with differences in working for high-caloric snack food. Thirty-six unrestrained non-dieters, twenty restrained non-dieters and fifteen current dieters performed a concurrent schedules task in which they had the opti...

Any abnormal reaction resulting from the ingestion of a food could be considered an adverse food reaction, and not necessarily a food allergy. In the evaluation of a patient with a history of an adverse reaction to food, one must consider the broad differential diagnosis before labelling the patient as ‘allergic’ to a foodstuff. The classification of adverse reactions to food is discussed, and ...

food security remains a major challenge for most rural households in kenya especially those in arid and semi arid areas. women play a crucial role as primary food producers and custodians of household food security. they however face many constraints in their endeavor to secure food for their households. women, lack access to extension education, land and credit and these challenges are exacerb...

Studies indicate an attentional bias towards food in binge-eating disorder (BED); however, more evidence on attentional engagement and disengagement and processing of multiple attention-competing stimuli is needed. This study aimed to examine visual attention to food and non-food stimuli in BED. In n = 23 participants with full-syndrome and subsyndromal BED and n = 23 individually matched healt...

The primary objective of this research is to examine the contributions of co-operatives on rural household agricultural productivity. Multistage sampling was employed in the random selection of 120 co-operators and non-cooperators respectively. But only 115 co-operators and non-cooperators were utilized for the study. The active mean age of 42 years and married female rural households with seco...

OBJECTIVE To examine the efficacy of self-regulation of food marketing to children by comparing, during children's preferred viewing on television, the differences in food/beverage marketing between two groups of corporations: 17 corporations participating in the Canadian Children's Food and Beverage Advertising Initiative (CAI) and 35 corporations not participating (non-CAI) in this initiative...