THE ABUNDANCE and variety of man's food depend upon his control over environment. For primitive tribes this meant success in hunting and fishing, and discovery and discriminating use of roots, leaves, fruit, and seeds of wild plants. Later, as animals were domesticated and agriculture got under way, control over environment came to mean good management of crops and flocks. Today for a large par...

BACKGROUND Activity Based Costing (ABC) is one of the new methods began appearing as a costing methodology in the 1990's. It calculates cost price by determining the usage of resources. In this study, ABC method was used for calculating cost price of remedial services in hospitals. METHODS To apply ABC method, Shahid Faghihi Hospital was selected. First, hospital units were divided into three...

The Food Habits Questionnaire (FHQ) is a 20 item self-report questionnaire that measures food intake habits. Questions are about typical eating patterns over the past month, and are rated on a 4-point Likert scale from 1 “Never or Rarely” to 4 “Usually or Always", or “Not applicable”. Fat intake is assessed by focusing on four food selection behaviors: excluding high-fat ingredients and high-fa...