Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Junk foods'

A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Management from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics
While there is extensive research regarding the impact of television on food choices, much less is focused on an instrument able to change beliefs at the point-of-purchase: packaging. This study aims to understand how food packaging can influence children‟s attitudes and purchase decisions towards healthier choices. Therefore, the appealing components of junk food packaging will be transferred to healthy food in order to understand its effect on children: Package Evaluation, Attention to Packaging, Attitude toward the Product, Perceived Healthiness, and Purchase Intention. To measure these variables, structured questionnaires were conducted to a sample composed by 408 Portuguese children aged between 10 and 14 years old from 5th to 9th grades. This study suggests that packaging can be a way to increase the appeal of healthy food to children and, consequently, improve their food choices, taking into consideration their values and preferences.

Over the past four decades, obesity in the United States has risen to record levels. Co-morbid conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, and stroke will impose over twenty trillion dollars of economic burden over the next two decades. More than half that sum will be direct medical expenses. Under current entitlement programs, governments, and ultimately taxpayers, will be responsible for about 43 percent of that. Even with all this spending, millions of lives will be cut short. Dietary factors are largely to blame. This thesis explores how policy interventions to encourage healthy diet and discourage healthy diet can be projected to affect future healthcare spending. It assesses six dietary factors to determine whether there is sufficient research to determine how much economic disease burden they will impose. Among those for which such research exists, the thesis estimates the cost-effectiveness of interventions such as education, subsidies, taxes and legislative bans.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, School of Education, 2008.
Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 11, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-08, Section: A, page: 3026. Adviser: Mary B. McMullen.

Acompanha : Guia didático: a química na junk food: uma proposta para o ensino de ligações químicas por meio do enfoque CTS
O objetivo deste estudo é propor estratégias de ensino no enfoque CTS para o ensino de Ligações Químicas com ênfase nas Ligações Iônica e Covalente. Nesse sentido o presente estudo foi desenvolvido e aplicado em uma escola da rede pública de ensino do Paraná, na cidade de Telêmaco Borba, em duas turmas da segunda (2ª) série do ensino técnico integrado ao ensino médio, totalizando 42 alunos. A abordagem metodológica foi abordagem qualitativa, de natureza interpretativa com observação participante. Para a coleta de dados foram utilizados: fotos, gravações de arguições orais e vídeos de atividades transcritos na íntegra, anotações de campo em protocolos de observação das interações do dia-a-dia na sala de aula, questionários e atividades desenvolvidas pelos alunos. As atividades foram desenvolvidas em dezoito (18) aulas, as quais interligaram os conceitos químicos de Ligações Químicas ao tema social controverso (Junk Food), de forma a promover as inter-relações dos aspectos da ciência, tecnologia e sociedade. Os principais resultados obtidos evidenciaram que pelas atividades propostas, o ensino de Ligações Químicas, por meio do tema social Junk Food, promoveu a valorização do conhecimento científico extrapolando as barreiras da sala de aula para o contexto social dos educandos. Pois as atividades desenvolvidas nos módulos, proporcionou as relações entre os conteúdos escolares e os aspectos cotidianos dos alunos. Alcançando os objetivos da proposta CTS para a cidadania. Outro resultado alcançado compreende a elaboração de um guia didático que tem por objetivo compartilhar atividades desenvolvidas neste estudo, como sugestão metodológica para os profissionais que lecionam Química, e atuam no ano final do Ensino Fundamental, Ensino Médio e Técnico.
The aim of this study is to propose teaching strategies in CTS approach to teaching with emphasis on Chemical Bonds Ionic and Covalent Links . In this sense the present study was developed and applied in a public school teaching of Paraná, in the town of Telêmaco Borba , in two classes of the second ( 2nd ) series of technical education integrated into the school , totaling 42 students . The methodological approach was qualitative approach, interpretative participant observation . For data collection were used : photos , recordings and videos Pleas oral activities fully transcribed , field notes on observation protocols of interactions of day- to-day classroom , quizzes and activities for students . The activities we developed in eighteen (18) classes, which interlinked the chemical concepts of Chemical Bonds to controversial social issue (Junk Food), in order to promote inter - relations aspects of science, technology and society. The main results showed that the proposed activities, the teaching of Chemical Bonds, through social theme Junk Food, promoted the appreciation of scientific knowledge surpassing the barriers of the classroom to the social context of the learners. For the activities in the modules, provided the relationships between school subjects and everyday aspects of students. Achieving the goals of the proposed CTS for citizenship. Another result obtained includes the preparation of a didactic guide which aims to share activities developed in this study as methodological suggestion for professionals who teach chemistry, and act in the final year of elementary school, high school and technical.

"Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration from the Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010."
Advisor(s): Yoho, Keenan D. ; Brinkley, Douglas E. "June 2010." "MBA Professional report"--Cover. Description based on title screen as viewed on July 14, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Inventory management, records keeper, stores onload process. Includes bibliographical references (p. 59). Also available in print.

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Pesquisa sobre a constituiÃÃo do campo de saber em alimentaÃÃo e nutriÃÃo, com enfoque no espaÃo formativo e nas prÃticas curriculares intervencionistas das Visitadoras de AlimentaÃÃo no cenÃrio polÃtico e institucional do SAPSâCE no perÃodo de 1944 a 1966. Para anÃlise da formaÃÃo dessas profissionais, tomouâse a experiÃncia da Escola de Visitadoras de AlimentaÃÃo Agnes June Leith â EVA, que funcionou no estado do Cearà neste perÃodo, com foco nas vivÃncias cotidianas e prÃticas curriculares do curso, centrando a investigaÃÃo nas aÃÃes de educaÃÃo alimentar junto à classe trabalhadora, escolares e populaÃÃo em geral. O estudo teve por objetivo principal reconstruir e investigar o espaÃo formativo e as prÃticas curriculares intervencionistas das Visitadoras de AlimentaÃÃo no cenÃrio polÃtico e institucional do SAPSâCE, no perÃodo de 1944 a 1966. A abordagem metodolÃgica foi baseada na Teoria da aÃÃo social, de Pierre Bourdieu, com destaque para as noÃÃes de campo e habitus, nos fundamentos da HistÃria Oral e da Teoria crÃtica de currÃculo, referencial que se completou com os conceitos de alimento, comida e prÃticas alimentares provenientes da Antropologia. As fontes utilizadas foram: relatos orais obtidos por meio de entrevistas com pessoas que fizeram parte da referida escola, como diretoras, professoras, alunas e funcionÃrias, e funcionÃrios do SAPS, instituiÃÃo à qual a EVA pertencia; jornais de grande circulaÃÃo da Ãpoca, cadernos de aula do curso de VisitaÃÃo Alimentar, anais do Congresso de Visitadoras de AlimentaÃÃo, livros, revistas, documentos oficiais e fotografias. Concluiâse que a Escola exerceu uma aÃÃo polÃticoâcultural no campo do saber em AlimentaÃÃo e NutriÃÃo no Cearà e no Brasil, contribuindo para a formaÃÃo de recursos humanos engajados na luta contra a fome, a desnutriÃÃo e a pobreza, e que as Visitadoras de AlimentaÃÃo executaram a funÃÃo de educadoras em alimentaÃÃo e difusoras dos princÃpios da alimentaÃÃo racional, contribuindo no processo de busca de representaÃÃo social desse saber.
A research on the constituent elements of food and nutrition expertise with its focus on both the formative space and the intervening curricular practices of the âVisitadoras de AlimentaÃÃoâ (Dietary Education Visitors) in the political and institutional scenario of âSAPSâ (Social Security Food Service) which operated in the State of Cearà from 1944 to 1966. For the analysis of the training of those professionals. âAgnes June Leithâ Dietary Education Visitors School â soâcalled âEVAâ â was selected; it operated in the State of Cearà from 1944 to 1966 focusing on daily experiences and curricular practices of the course, concentrating its investigation on the actions of dietary education amongst workingâclass members, students and the population as a whole. The study was aimed at rebuilding the educational space and investigate the curriculum practices of interventional feeding visits in the political and institutional SAPSâEC in this period. The methodological approach adopted was based on Pierre BourdieuÂs Social Action Theory with its emphasis both on the notions of field and habitus, as well as on the bases of Oral History and the Theory of Curricular Criticism, a landmark which was completed by the concepts of food, meal and eating practices originated from Anthropology. The sources used were the following oral reports obtained by way of interviews with people who had been part of the referred to school, such as principals, teachers, students and employees as well as âSAPSâ employees â the institution to which âEVAâ BELONGED; most popular newspapers at that time, exercise books of the course on Dietary Education Visitors, annals of Conferences on Dietary Education, books, magazines, officials documents and photographs. One can arrive at the conclusion that that School played a politicalâcultural role in the field of Food and Nutrition Education in the State of Cearà and in Brazil, contributing to the enhancement of human resources engaged in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty, and that the Dietary Education Visitors played a part as food educators and messengers of the principles of rational eating habits, contributing to the searching process for the social representation of such expertise.

Objective. Determine the relationship between dietary quality and body weight/composition in college women. Specific emphasis was made regarding adherence to current MyPyramid guidelines, fruit, vegetable and junk food consumption. Design/Participants. The study used a cross-sectional design. One hundred and sixty three women were recruited to participate in the study. All participants were university students (20.4 ± 1.6 y). Diet intake was measured using the Dietary History Questionnaire (DHQ) and the Healthy Eating Index (HEI) was calculated to assess diet quality. Body fat percentage was assessed using the Bod Pod and BMI was calculated using height and weight measurements. Physical activity was measured objectively using accelerometers over seven consecutive days. Results. There was no significant difference in BMI or body fat percentage across university year. There was no relationship between diet quality (as measured using the Healthy Eating Index) and percent body fat or BMI. The number of MyPyramid equivalents of fruit was negatively correlated to body fat percentage (r = -0.2, p ≤ 0,05) but not BMI (r = -0.093, p =0.26). The number of MyPyramid equivalents of dairy was also negatively related to both body fat percentage (r = -0.21, p ≤ 0.05) and BMI (r = -0.21, p ≤ 0.05). Percentage of calories from Non Nutrient Dense Foods (NNDF) was positively related to percent body fat ( r= 0.179, p = 0.029). For every 1-percentage increase in NNDF, there was a 0.12 percentage point increase in body fat. Conclusion. Increasing fruit, dairy, and vegetable intake, and reducing intake from Non Nutrient Dense Foods (NNDF) such as French fries, cookies, and candy, may have a beneficial influence on body composition in college women.

Thesis (M.S. in Defense Analysis)--Naval Postgraduate School, June 2010.
Thesis Advisor(s): Borer, Douglas A. ; Second Reader: Simons, Anna. "June 2010." Description based on title screen as viewed on July 14, 2010. Author(s) subject terms: Upstream states, Downstream states, sovereign territory, equitable utilization, national security, conflict, water scarcity, Nile river/basin, hegemony, control, legitimacy, absolute territorial sovereignty, natural rights, absolute integrity, acquired rights, negotiations, contentious agreements, prior appropriation, virtual water, interstate relations, competitive exploitation, political stability/instability, compromise, cooperation, unilateralism, food security, regional security, strategic interests, sustainable exploitation, riparian co-dependence, limited territorial sovereignty, limited integrity, arbitration, asymmetry. Includes bibliographical references (p. 71-74). Also available in print.

Existem evidências de que dietas compostas por níveis elevados de lipídeos e/ou car-boidratos contribuem para o desenvolvimento de doenças crônico-degenerativas e de déficit cognitivo. Entretanto, os mecanismos pelos quais a obesidade materna interfere na saúde da prole, especificamente no metabolismo e na memória de longo-prazo, ain-da são pouco claros. O objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar se a obesidade materna interfere no metabolismo e nos comportamentos relacionados à memória de longo-prazo de seus filhotes, e se há um efeito somatório com a exposição à dieta de cafete-ria no decorrer da vida da prole. Ratas foram alimentadas com dieta controle (CON) ou de cafeteria (CAF) desde o desmame até os 210 dias de vida, no desmame de sua pro-le. A partir do desmame, seus filhotes machos foram divididos em 4 grupos (CON-CON, CON-CAF, CAF-CON e CAF-CAF) para que todas as ninhadas ingerissem CON ou CAF, independentemente da dieta materna. As mães foram decapitadas no dia seguin-te ao desmame dos filhotes. Foi decapitada e analisada em tarefas comportamentais metade dos filhotes aos 30 dias de idade e, a outra metade, aos 120 dias. As mães CAF apresentaram maior peso corporal total e de tecido adiposo e maiores concentra-ções circulantes de colesterol total, insulina e leptina do que as mães CON. A ingestão calórica semanal dos filhotes que ingeriram CAF mostrou-se maior do que os que inge-riram CON, independentemente da dieta materna. As ninhadas apresentaram peso cor-poral igual no desmame e aos 30dias, porém aos 120dias, os filhotes que ingeriram CON-CAF tiveram aumento de peso em relação aos filhotes CON, independentemente da dieta materna destes. Porém, os filhotes CAF-CAF tiveram redução do peso corporal em relação aos CON-CAF na idade adulta. Aos 30 e 120 dias, os filhotes que ingeriram CAF apresentaram peso de tecido adiposo maior do que os que ingeriram CON, inde-pendentemente da dieta materna. Aos 30 e 120dias, a trigliceridemia e a colesterolemia estavam iguais entre os grupos, assim como a glicemia aos 30 dias. Porém, aos 120 dias, os filhotes que ingeriram CAF apresentaram hiperglicemia, assim como hiperlepti-nemia e hiperinsulinemia, independentemente da dieta materna. Aos 30 dias, todos os grupos que foram expostos à dieta de cafeteria em alguma etapa da vida apresentaram declínio no desempenho em uma ou nas duas tarefas relacionadas à memória de lon-go-prazo (Reconhecimento de objetos e Esquiva Inibitória step-down). Já aos 120 dias, o grupo CAF-CAF foi o único que mostrou piora no desempenho na tarefa de Reconhe-cimento de Objetos, e todos os grupos mostraram capacidade de aprendizado e memó-ria na tarefa de Esquiva Inibitória step-down. Esses dados sugerem que a dieta materna modula o peso corporal e comportamentos relacionados à memória de longo-prazo dos filhotes e que seus efeitos sofrem influência da dieta pós-natal da prole. Porém, novos estudos são necessários para elucidar os mecanismos envolvidos no desenvolvimento dessas alterações.
There is evidence that diets containing high levels of lipids and / or carbohydrates con-tribute to the development of chronic degenerative diseases and cognitive impairment. However, the mechanisms by which maternal obesity affects health of offspring, specifi-cally in metabolism and long-term memory, are still unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate whether maternal obesity interferes with the metabolism and behavior related to long-term memory of their offspring, and if there is a summation effect with exposure to the cafeteria diet during the life of the offspring. Rats were fed a control diet (CON) or cafeteria (CAF) from weaning to 210 days old at weaning of their offspring. After wean-ing, their male offspring were divided into 4 groups (CON-CON, CON-CAF, CAF and CAF-CON-CAF) for all litters ingest CON or CAF, irrespective of maternal diet. Mothers were decapitated on the day following weaning of pups. Was decapitated and analyzed in behavioral tasks half the pups at 30 days of age and the other half at 120 days. CAF mothers had higher total body weight and adipose tissue and increased circulating con-centrations of total cholesterol, insulin and leptin than mothers CON. The weekly caloric intake of pups that ingested CAF was higher than those who ate CON, regardless of maternal diet. Litters showed body weight equal to weaning and 30days, but the 120dias, puppies who ate CON-CAF had weight gain compared to CON offspring, re-gardless of maternal diet these. However, the pups CAF-CAF had reduced body weight compared to CON-CAF adulthood. At 30 and 120 days, the puppies that ingested CAF showed greater weight of adipose tissue than those who ate CON, irrespective of ma-ternal diet. At 30 and 120dias, blood triglyceride and cholesterol were similar between groups, as well as blood glucose levels at 30 days. However, at 120 days, the puppies that ingested CAF showed hyperglycemia, as hiperlepti-nemia and hyperinsulinemia, irrespective of maternal diet. At 30 days, all groups were exposed to the cafeteria diet at some stage of life show a decline in performance in one or both tasks related to long-term memory (Recognition of objects and Dodge inhibitory step-down). Already at 120 days, the group CAF-CAF was the one who showed deterioration in performance in the task of Object Recognition, and all groups showed learning ability and memory in the inhibitory avoidance task step down. These data suggest that maternal diet modulates body weight and behaviors related to long-term memory of the puppies and their effects are influenced by postnatal diet offspring. However, further studies are needed to eluci-date the mechanisms involved in the development of these changes.

CIDRACK, Marlene Lopes. Escola Agnes June Leith: formação e práticas curriculares de visitadoras de alimentação (1944–1966). 2010. 186 f. Tese (Doutorado em Educação) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Faculdade de Educação, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza-CE, 2010.
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A research on the constituent elements of food and nutrition expertise with its focus on both the formative space and the intervening curricular practices of the “Visitadoras de Alimentação” (Dietary Education Visitors) in the political and institutional scenario of “SAPS” (Social Security Food Service) which operated in the State of Ceará from 1944 to 1966. For the analysis of the training of those professionals. “Agnes June Leith” Dietary Education Visitors School – so–called “EVA” – was selected; it operated in the State of Ceará from 1944 to 1966 focusing on daily experiences and curricular practices of the course, concentrating its investigation on the actions of dietary education amongst working–class members, students and the population as a whole. The study was aimed at rebuilding the educational space and investigate the curriculum practices of interventional feeding visits in the political and institutional SAPS–EC in this period. The methodological approach adopted was based on Pierre Bourdieu´s Social Action Theory with its emphasis both on the notions of field and habitus, as well as on the bases of Oral History and the Theory of Curricular Criticism, a landmark which was completed by the concepts of food, meal and eating practices originated from Anthropology. The sources used were the following oral reports obtained by way of interviews with people who had been part of the referred to school, such as principals, teachers, students and employees as well as “SAPS” employees – the institution to which “EVA” BELONGED; most popular newspapers at that time, exercise books of the course on Dietary Education Visitors, annals of Conferences on Dietary Education, books, magazines, officials documents and photographs. One can arrive at the conclusion that that School played a political–cultural role in the field of Food and Nutrition Education in the State of Ceará and in Brazil, contributing to the enhancement of human resources engaged in the struggle against hunger, malnutrition and poverty, and that the Dietary Education Visitors played a part as food educators and messengers of the principles of rational eating habits, contributing to the searching process for the social representation of such expertise.
Pesquisa sobre a constituição do campo de saber em alimentação e nutrição, com enfoque no espaço formativo e nas práticas curriculares intervencionistas das Visitadoras de Alimentação no cenário político e institucional do SAPS–CE no período de 1944 a 1966. Para análise da formação dessas profissionais, tomou–se a experiência da Escola de Visitadoras de Alimentação Agnes June Leith – EVA, que funcionou no estado do Ceará neste período, com foco nas vivências cotidianas e práticas curriculares do curso, centrando a investigação nas ações de educação alimentar junto à classe trabalhadora, escolares e população em geral. O estudo teve por objetivo principal reconstruir e investigar o espaço formativo e as práticas curriculares intervencionistas das Visitadoras de Alimentação no cenário político e institucional do SAPS–CE, no período de 1944 a 1966. A abordagem metodológica foi baseada na Teoria da ação social, de Pierre Bourdieu, com destaque para as noções de campo e habitus, nos fundamentos da História Oral e da Teoria crítica de currículo, referencial que se completou com os conceitos de alimento, comida e práticas alimentares provenientes da Antropologia. As fontes utilizadas foram: relatos orais obtidos por meio de entrevistas com pessoas que fizeram parte da referida escola, como diretoras, professoras, alunas e funcionárias, e funcionários do SAPS, instituição à qual a EVA pertencia; jornais de grande circulação da época, cadernos de aula do curso de Visitação Alimentar, anais do Congresso de Visitadoras de Alimentação, livros, revistas, documentos oficiais e fotografias. Conclui–se que a Escola exerceu uma ação político–cultural no campo do saber em Alimentação e Nutrição no Ceará e no Brasil, contribuindo para a formação de recursos humanos engajados na luta contra a fome, a desnutrição e a pobreza, e que as Visitadoras de Alimentação executaram a função de educadoras em alimentação e difusoras dos princípios da alimentação racional, contribuindo no processo de busca de representação social desse saber.

Dans le monde moderne, les humains sont exposés à une vaste gamme de produits chimiques tout au long de leur vie. L'évaluation des risques des substances chimiques pour l'homme revêt une importance capitale pour la santé publique et permet de calculer des niveaux sûrs d'exposition aiguë et chronique pour des sous-groupes de la population humaine, notamment les nouveau-nés, les enfants, les personnes âgées et les populations d’origine géographique et de polymorphismes génétiques différents. L'application des données cinétiques liées aux voies métaboliques pour tenir compte de la variabilité humaine dans la quantification du danger a le potentiel de réduire l'incertitude et de mieux caractériser la variabilité par rapport à l'utilisation traditionnelle des facteurs d'incertitude par défaut. Cette thèse vise à : 1) Quantifier la variabilité humaine au moyen d'une méta-analyse Bayésienne pour plusieurs voies métaboliques de phase I, phase II et transporteurs en utilisant des marqueurs pharmacocinétiques d'exposition aiguë et chronique ou des données d'activité enzymatique pour les substrats spécifiques disponible. 2) Estimer les distributions de variabilité liées aux voies métaboliques et les facteurs d’incertitudes liés à ces voies pour leur intégration future dans les modèles physiologiques basés sur la cinétique pour l'évaluation des risques des produits chimiques pour l'Homme
In the modern world, humans are exposed to a wide range of chemicals throughout their life. Human risk assessment of chemicals is of considerable public health importance and provides means to derive safe levels of acute and chronic exposure for subgroups of the human population including neonates, children, elderly and populations of different geographical ancestry and genetic polymorphisms. The application of pathway-related kinetic data to address human variability in the quantification of hazard has potential to reduce uncertainty and better characterize variability compared with the use of traditional default uncertainty factors. This thesis aims to 1) quantify human variability by means of Bayesian meta-analysis for a range of phase I, phase II metabolic pathways and transporters using pharmacokinetic markers of acute and chronic exposure or enzyme activity data from available probe substrate, 2) derive pathway-related variability distributions and pathway-related uncertainty factors for their future integration in physiologically based kinetic models for human risk assessment of chemicals

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008.
Title from title screen (site viewed Mar. 5, 2009). PDF text: viii, 115 p. ; 480 Kb. UMI publication number: AAT 3296865. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

Thesis (MFA)--Montana State University--Bozeman, 2008.
Typescript. Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Walter Metz. Montana Fare is a DVD accompanying the thesis. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 38-40).

碩士
國立清華大學
科技法律研究所
102
The public health sector, from WHO to Taiwan, is considering obesity as an important public health problem to be prevented and controlled. In Taiwan, obesity prevention is the main administrative goal of Health Promotion Administration, and it has been regulated by Paragraph 3, Article 28 of Act Governing Food Safety and Sanitation, so called “junk food advertisements reguation clause.” Obesity prevention involves interdisciplinary approach, which can include the historical background of liberalization, critique from political philosophy, application of regulation theory, theory and practice in public health, empirical research and critique in medical sociology. However, little legal research has been done on obesity prevention and control. The purpose of this article is to find the theoretical foundations of obesity prevention, and to apply these theoretical foundations to assess the legal strategies, using the junk food advertisements regulation as an example. The issues to be addressed in this article are as follows: Is obesity a global epidemic to be prevented and controlled? Should obesity prevention be regulated by the state? Is the state capable of regulating? How will the state regulate? What are the possible side effects of the regulations, e.g. discrimination? Is the junk food advertisements regulation necessary? What is the constitutional restraint on obesity prevention? The method to carry out this article is using constitutional dogmatic and sociology of law to project the interdisciplinary values on the constitutional values, which are the underlying principles of the Constitution and fundamental rights. The framework consists of the following: the importance of obesity issues, the necessity of improving the obesogenic environment to prevent obesity, the justifiability of obesity regulation by the state, and the necessity of junk food advertisements regulation for improving the obesogenic environment. Finally, this article analyzes the junk food advertisements regulation clause as well as the relating draft regulations, and makes practical suggestions.

碩士
輔仁大學
食品營養學系
94
In order to understand the scale, facilities and hygienic management of food service establishments in Jung-Li city of Taoyuan, the survey was carried out in the period of July 2004～September 2005 through a door to door interview with caterers located in main streets of Jung-Li city. A total of 294 completed questionnaires was recovered. Results from SPSS analysis revealed that about 17.0% and 7.5% of food service establishments understood the Good Hygienic Practice (GHP) and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) respectively, indicating much room for food hygiene training. The classification of food service establishments in Jung-Li city consisted of 171 snack bars (58%), 60 restaurants (20%), 20 coffee bars (7%), 14 breakfast diners (5%), 12 fast food restaurants (4%), 9 self-service restaurants (3%) and 8 steak houses (3%). Food types served by food service establishments in Jung-Li city consisted of 137 Chinese (46%), 34 American (12%), 20 Japanese (7%), 17 Taiwanese (6%), 2 Italian (1%), 11 French (4%) and 73 other (24%) styles, including Thai food and other combinations. Japanese food restaurant was the best in many aspects, such as kitchen and meal service hygiene, business registration, full-time food protection staff, pallet, employee health examination and wearing hat with hair restraint. Cross-comparison between classifications of food service establishments and facilities and hygienic management showed that fast food restaurants were many superior aspects. Incomplete hygienic measures of Taiwanese food restaurant need to be improved. However, the percentage of licensed cooks in Taiwanese food restaurants was the highest, implicating that the government promotion policy of cook licensing was partially successful. Up to 88.2% Taiwanese food restaurants used monosodium glutamate, and Chinese food restaurant was the second highest, 84.7%. It is a affirmative that most food service establishments (> 85%) required their employees to put on aprons while in handling foods.

碩士
國立臺北教育大學
台灣文化研究所
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In this paper, I choose Hong Kong as an object and based on the writer of Hong Kong, Liang Bing-Jun, and the writer of Taiwan, Jewel Tsai’s food writing. I analyze and discuss of several works for writers by taking cultural studies as the path and referring to the history and reality of the development of Hong Kong. When we face the wave of globalization, the writers how to describe the city? The city, Hong Kong, how to be found the character and the difference between others? According to these writings, we can find that they emphasize pluralistic national identity, cultural things in this intersection process in their composition. Liang Bing-Jun writes about under the Eastern and Western cross-cultural intersection, colliding with each other, and the emergence of mixed-breed new forms of cultural type. Jewel Tsai writes about the background of ingredient, the same ingredients Department of the Chinese culture, through the effects of different powers, and then change to another culture.

This thesis investigates how a tax and warning label on less healthy snack food products may affect consumer behaviour when the imposition of the tax is a source of consumer information. A survey that included choice experiments was implemented in supermarkets. Participants were asked to choose between high fat snacks, some displaying a stigmatizing warning label, and healthier snacks. Multinomial logit and latent class models exploring choice were estimated and a predictive hypothetical market was set up. Results show that the warning label had a negative price premium of about $4. The effect of price, though small, becomes even smaller as BMI increases. A fat tax for health is not recommended because it might not hit the target population, people were not very price sensitive, and it would likely be regressive. To encourage health, it appears to be more effective to display a warning label than to apply a tax.
Agricultural and Resource Economics

Cette recherche s’intéresse à la question des représentations que les enfants construisent au sujet de l’alimentation dans une perspective épistémologique constructiviste, ancrée dans les traditions de la communication et de la psychologie sociale. Notre but a été de déterminer si les représentations de l’alimentation chez les enfants pouvaient être comprises en tant que représentations sociales, et si la construction de ces représentations variait selon l’âge et selon l’appartenance socioculturelle des enfants. Pour ce faire, nous avons analysé les discours sur l’alimentation des enfants de 7 à 12 ans issus de trois contextes culturels différents. Ainsi, nous avons comparé les représentations de l’alimentation construites par des enfants nés, élevés et éduqués en Roumanie et au Québec, ainsi que celles des enfants nés (ou élevés depuis un très bas âge) au Québec, mais provenant de familles d’immigrants roumains. La méthodologie de recherche a reflété une intégration instrumentale des perspectives issues de la psychologie sociale et de la communication, en étant dérivée de la logique naturelle et des théories sur les représentations sociales. Nos résultats suggèrent que les enfants construisent des représentations sociales de l'alimentation et que ces représentations progressent en complexité, tant du point de vue cognitif que moral, suivant l'âge, en subissant des processus de constructions similaires. De plus, il existerait des influences liées à l'appartenance socioculturelle sur le contenu et sur la complexité des représentations, dans ce sens que les différences et les ressemblances entre les groups socioculturels renvoient soit à des influences culturelles, soit à des influences en lien avec l'idéologie. En fonction des résultats obtenus, nous avons proposé des stratégies communicationnelles visant à accroître l’efficacité des programmes d’éducation à la nutrition. De point de vue théorique, notre recherche contribue au raffinement de la théorie des représentations sociales et du développement de l'enfant, ainsi qu'au développement d’un nouveau regard méthodologique sur cette problématique.
This research focuses on children’s representations of food and nutrition from a constructivist epistemological perspective based on an interdisciplinary approach integrating communication and social psychology. Our goal was to determine which representations of food and nutrition could be understood as social representations, and if children’s age and cultural background interfered with the development of those representations. The subjects were children aged 7 to 12 from three different cultural backgrounds - we compared representations of food and nutrition built by children born, raised and educated in Romania and Quebec, as well as children from families of Romanian immigrants born (or raised from a very young age) in Quebec. The research methodology integrated social psychology and communication perspectives, instrumentally derived from natural logic and theories on social representations. Results suggest that children build social representations of food and nutrition, and that these representations become progressively more complex, undergoing a similar developmental process, according to children’s age, both from a cognitive and moral viewpoint. Moreover, the research highlights that socio-cultural background influences on the representations content and complexity refer either to cultural or ideological influences with regards to the differences and similarities between socio-cultural groups. Furthermore, we proposed scenarios of communication strategies aiming to increase the effectiveness of nutritional education programs. Finally, the research provides contributions to theories of social representations and child development as well as to the development of new methods for the analysis of representations.

This work focuses on anorexigenic neuropeptides, cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) and prolactin-releasing peptide (PrRP), which decrease food intake and body weight. CART peptide is an anorexigenic neuropeptide and, despite many efforts, its receptor has not yet been identified. We found CART peptide specific binding sites in pheochromocytoma PC12 cells. Cells differentiated to neurons increased significantly the number of binding sites. On the other hand, after differentiation to chromaffin cells the number of binding sites was so low that it was impossible to determine their density. To clarify the importance of each of the three disulfide bridges in the CART molecule, analogs with one or two disulfide bridges were synthetized. The biological activity was maintained in analog with two disulfide bridges in positions 74-94 and 88-101. Moreover, we demonstrated the stimulation of JNK and subsequently c-Jun activation in PC12 cells. Neuropeptide PrRP belongs to the RF-amide peptide family and has anorexigenic properties. PrPR has a high affinity to GPR10 and neuropeptide FF (NPFF2) receptor. In our laboratory lipidized analogs of PrRP were synthesized, which are able to decrease food intake after peripheral administration and may cross the blood-brain barrier. We tested biological...