Dietary food intake has a major influence on health indicators, including Body Mass Index (BMI), blood pressure, serum cholesterol and glucose. Previous research has shown that decisions to purchase specific food items are ...
Nov 27, 2023
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Were lockdowns an effective response to COVID-19 or would it have been better to limit intervention and let individuals spontaneously reduce their own risk of infection? Three years on from the public health emergency that ...
Nov 20, 2023
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Residents of rural counties have overall worse health outcomes than their urban counterparts. A study published in PLOS Global Public Health by William Weeks at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, United States and ...
Oct 3, 2023
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Food insecurity is four times higher in Brazilian households headed by single women of color than those headed by married white men, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS Global Public Health. Gender ...
Oct 3, 2023
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Lancaster University researchers found increased levels of free school meal eligibility in Fleetwood following the pandemic as part of a study of the town, which has high levels of deprivation.
Jul 31, 2023
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The ice cream truck of the future could be driverless and operate 24/7, encouraging consumption of junk food and alcohol, while delivery bots could clog up footpaths, unless governments step in, according to new research ...
Jun 16, 2023
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A new interactive dashboard, allowing open access exploration of oral health-related data from multiple national children cohort surveys, has been developed by researchers at the Dublin Dental University Hospital, Trinity ...
May 24, 2023
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A new tool that can be used to forecast the prevalence of individuals within a country that may have insufficient access to food—known as food insecurity—up to 30 days into the future is presented in a study published ...
Mar 16, 2023
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Scientists are aiming to revolutionize British diets by slipping more UK-grown beans into citizens' daily bread.
Jan 20, 2023
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The U.S. is experiencing its sharpest decline in life expectancy in more than a century—since the eras of World War I and the Great Influenza.
Dec 7, 2022
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