BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES The concept of "food deserts" has been widely used in Western countries as a framework to identify areas with constrained access to fresh and nutritious foods, providing guidelines for targeted nutrition and public health programs. Unlike the vast amount of literature on food deserts in a Western context, only a few studies have addressed the concept in an East Asian conte...

Abstract Human influence on ecosystems is rapidly expanding, and one consequence the increased availability of human food subsidies to wildlife. like refuse scraps are widely hypothesized be ‘junk food’ that nutritionally incomplete; however, impacts foods’ health fitness individual organisms remain unclear. In this study, we aimed understand how consumption affects body condition fecundity a g...

In this article, we argue that the pervading hegemonic narrative on gamers’ eating culture emphasizing hedonistic and fast foods is a one-sided storyline highlights potentially harmful gamer stereotype. To end, reveal variety of food consumption broaden depicting relationship between gamers eating. Our literature review shows dominance Junk Food Gamer in extant research. However, by using socia...

We have shown previously that a maternal junk food diet during pregnancy and lactation plays a role in predisposing offspring to obesity. Here we show that rat offspring born to mothers fed the same junk food diet rich in fat, sugar and salt develop exacerbated adiposity accompanied by raised circulating glucose, insulin, triglyceride and/or cholesterol by the end of adolescence (10 weeks postp...

We study the applicability of partially supervised text classification to junk mail filtering, where a given set of junk messages serve as positive examples while the messages received by a user are unlabeled examples, but there are no negative examples. Supplying a junk mail filter with a large set of junk mails could result in an algorithm that learns to filter junk mail without user interven...

Abstract Objectives: to perform a systematic review of studies that investigated the influence ultra-processed foods (UPF) consumption during pregnancy on child’s anthropometric parameters up one year life. Methods: cohort and cross-sectional were researched in BVS, Cinahl, Cochrane, Embase, Pubmed, Scopus Web Science databases until March 2020, main descriptors were: “Pregnant Women”, “Ultra-p...

Our paper describes a framework that aids users in the creation of data visualizations augmented with chart junk. Chart junk refers to graphical decorations that are irrelevant to the data, but are meant to make the data graphics more interesting, giving rise to visualizations with low data-to-ink ratios. While outcast at first, recent studies have shown that users tend to find visualizations w...

Background: Good oral health reflects the overall health status of an individual. Gingivitis and periodontal diseases are the leading causes of oral morbidities. Wide range of factors cause oral morbidities like adopted changes in dietary patterns, lifestyle factors, faulty oral hygiene practices, addiction, neglect and ignorance towards dental hygiene. Few inevitable factors like aging, socioe...