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Overcoming Obesogenic Environments: A Qualitative Study Exploring Mechanisms of Healthy Eaters
(2021)
Objective: To identify mechanisms that enable overcoming obesogenic environments amongst healthy eaters through a Salutogenesis approach.
Methods: Sixteen middle-class Chilean adults (14 females and 2 males) following ...
Energetic mechanisms for coping with changes in resource availability
(2020)
Given current anthropogenic alterations to many ecosystems and communities, it is becoming increasingly important to consider whether and how organisms can cope with changing resources. Metabolic rate, because it represents ...
Gender of respondent does not affect the psychometric properties of the Brazilian Household Food Security Scale
(Oxford Univ PressOxfordInglaterra, 2008)
Indigenous Shawi communities and national food security support: Right direction, but not enough
(Elsevier, 2017)
Food insecurity is a major challenge facing Peru's Indigenous Shawi communities, who receive food support through national level programs. There is limited research, however, on how national food and social programming ...
Measuring the Toughness of Primate Foods and its Ecological Value
(Springer, 2012-06-01)
The mechanical properties of plant foods play an important role in the feeding process, being one of many criteria for food acceptance or rejection by primates. One of the simplest justifications for this statement is the ...
Plasticity in food assimilation, retention time and coprophagy allow herbivorous cavies (Microcavia australis) to cope with low food quality in the Monte desert
(Elsevier Inc, 2010-03)
Energy balance depends on the efficiency with which organisms make use of their trophic resources, and has direct impact on their fitness. There are environmental variations that affect the availability as well as the ...
Smallholders’ coping mechanisms with wheat rust epidemics: lessons from Ethiopia
(Public Library of Science, 2019)
Food system vulnerability amidst the extreme 2010-2011 flooding in the Peruvian Amazon: a case study from the Ucayali region
(Springer, 2016)
Projections of climate change indicate an increase in the frequency and intensity of climatic hazards such as flooding and droughts, increasing the importance of understanding community vulnerability to extreme hydrological ...
Directing food practices towards health from a Salutogenic perspective: Exploring food literacy, GRRs and life experiences in students leaving the nest
(2014)
Background: The obesogenic environment in which societies live today have shaped poor
dietary habits, resulting in increased rates of obesity and associated chronic diseases
throughout Europe and the world. Health promotion ...