Food Anthropology News
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April 24, 2008
Diet May Influence Sex of Baby
Podcast Transcript: Considering getting pregnant and want to influence whether you have a boy or a girl? According to new research published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, you might want to check out your diet. Scientists at the Universities of Exeter and Oxford in England followed 750 first-time pregnant women. The women were asked about their eating habits before and during pregnancy. They were split into three groups based on the sheer number of calories consumed and the healthfulness of their diets.
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February, 2008
Food to Fuel and the World Food Crisis
With the millennium as a springboard, the United Nations embarked on an ambitious plan in the 1990s to halve the number of the world’s population suffering from hunger by the year 2015. But despite UN Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon’s upbeat progress report on the Millennium Goals last summer...
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November 4, 2007
Weed it and Reap
For Americans who have been looking to Congress to reform the food system, these past few weeks have been, well, the best of times and the worst of times. A new politics has sprouted up around the farm bill, traditionally a parochial piece of legislation thrashed out in private between the various agricultural interests (wheat growers versus corn growers; meatpackers versus ranchers) without a whole lot of input or attention from mere eaters.
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September 12, 2007
Who Does U.S. Food Aid Benefit?
Last month, in a move that shocked observers, CARE, one of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations, rejected $45 million in U.S. food aid, shining a spotlight on a practice the group says may hurt starving populations more than help them.
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September 6, 2007
Health officials find where you live possible cause for obesity in Arizona
Neighborhood property values predict local obesity rates better than education or incomes, according to a study from the University of Washington being published online recently by the journal Social Science and Medicine. For each additional $100,000 in the median price of homes, UW researchers found, obesity rates in a given ZIP code dropped by 2 percent.
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August 31, 2007
HHS Toned Down Breast-Feeding Ads Formula Industry Urged Softer Campaign
Neighborhood property values predict local obesity rates better than education or incomes, according to a study from the University of Washington being published online recently by the journal Social Science and Medicine. For each additional $100,000 in the median price of homes, UW researchers found, obesity rates in a given ZIP code dropped by 2 percent.
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August 30, 2007
ZIP Codes and Property Values Predict Obesity Rates
Neighborhood property values predict local obesity rates better than education or incomes, according to a study from the University of Washington being published online recently by the journal Social Science and Medicine. For each additional $100,000 in the median price of homes, UW researchers found, obesity rates in a given ZIP code dropped by 2 percent.
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August 29, 2007
Fat Zones: Does where you live influence what you eat? A new study says ZIP codes are surprisingly accurate predictors of obesity
ZIP codes are more than just a way to deliver mail, they can say a lot about their residents—and not just the ones living in California’s famed 90210. In a study published in the September issue of the journal Social Science & Medicine, University of Washington researchers found that adults living in ZIP codes with the highest property values were the slimmest, and those living in ZIP codes with the lowest property values were the fattest.