OBJECTIVES To study the impact of migration on food consumption among Indian factory workers and their siblings and spouses. DESIGN A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess diet using an interviewer-administered semi-quantitative FFQ from which intake of 184 commonly consumed food items was obtained. SETTINGS Participants recruited from factory sites in Bangalore, Lucknow, Nagpur and...

OBJECTIVE Neighbourhood differences in access to fresh fruit and vegetables may explain social inequalities in diet. Investigations have focused on variations in cost and availability as barriers to the purchase and consumption of fresh produce; investigations of quality have been neglected. Here we investigate whether produce quality systematically varies by food store type, rural-urban locati...

Subjects aged 16-64 years (592; 258 men and 334 women), randomly selected from the population of Northern Ireland, kept a 7 d weighed record of all food and drink consumed. Social, personal and anthropometric data were also collected. From the weighed records food consumption was described in terms of forty-one food groups. Using principal components analysis, four distinct dietary patterns wer...

We describe a simple method based on postadsorption substrate stress induction to modify and control nanoscale phase-separated patterns formed in self-assembled monolayers. We show using mesoscale computer simulations and experiments that this method helps quickly progress a kinetically arrested patchy pattern into the equilibrium striped pattern, which is otherwise difficult to access. This wo...

one of the common ways to identifying and representing himself, especially in the modern age, cultural consumption. often people in cultural consumption, types of commodities and precious symbols, in order to create favorable images of themselves in the minds of others are taking.the choice of specific pattern of cultural consumption, cultural preferences or practices, the need for cultural res...