This study uses heteroskedastic Tobit and Censored Least Absolute Deviations models to examine the impacts of dairy cow ownership on selected outcomes for a sample of 184 households in coastal Kenya. The outcomes examined include gross household cash income, gross non-agricultural income, consumption of dairy products, time allocated to cattlerelated tasks, number of labourers hired and total w...

OBJECTIVE To determine the association of beverage consumption with obesity in Mexican American school-aged children. DESIGN Cross-sectional study using the baseline data from a cohort study. Mothers and children answered questions about the frequency and quantity of the child's consumption of soda, diet soda, other sugar-sweetened beverages, 100% fruit juice, milk and water. The questions we...

In the 50 years since the establishment of the Milk Marketing Board there have been startling changes in the lifestyle and eating habits of UK population. We have passed through an era when food was rationed and choice restricted, into one in which food is plentiful and restrictions are, in the main, self-imposed. The diet/health interrelationship is now focused not on deficiency but on excess....

Pakistan is the fourth largest producer of milk in world. Milk consumed both fresh and tetra pack form country. This study explores socioeconomic factors that affect consumer’s preferences towards consumption. Primary data were collected from a number 130 randomly selected consumers using well-structure questionnaire Faisalabad district Punjab, Pakistan. For analytical purpose, binary probit re...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a short set of questions about foods in the household can provide information about the fat-related dietary behaviour of individual household members in less-acculturated Chinese populations. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. PARTICIPANTS The study population included 244 adult females of Chinese ethnicity in Seattle, WA, and Vancouver, BC, Canada. SETTING Bili...

OBJECTIVE To examine the prevalence of household food insecurity and compare dietary intake by food security status in a representative Korean population. DESIGN Cross-sectional. Food security status of households was classified using an eighteen-item food security questionnaire. The nutrition survey comprised questions on dietary habits, a 24 h dietary recall and a semi-quantitative FFQ. S...