scholarly journals From Shared Meals to Interreligious Conversations

2021 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 702-713
Author(s):  
Lea Schlenker
Keyword(s):  
Shared Meals

Covid-19: is the oral transmission route during shared meals and drinks credible?

Virologie ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 213-223
Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Wendling ◽  
Aure Saulnier ◽  
Jean-Marc Sabatier
Keyword(s):  
Transmission Route ◽  
Oral Transmission ◽  
Shared Meals

Shared Meals among Young Families: Traditions and Correlates of Eating Together

2010 ◽  
Vol 110 (9) ◽  
pp. A112
Author(s):  
N.I. Larson ◽  
D. Neumark-Sztainer ◽  
M. Story
Keyword(s):  
Shared Meals

scholarly journals Sensory Metrics of Neuromechanical Trust

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 2293-2351
Author(s):  
William Softky ◽  
Criscillia Benford
Keyword(s):  
Computational Models ◽  
Failure Modes ◽  
Internet Gaming Disorder ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Data Share ◽  
Internet Gaming ◽  
Size Groups ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Human Brains ◽  
Shared Meals

Today digital sources supply a historically unprecedented component of human sensorimotor data, the consumption of which is correlated with poorly understood maladies such as Internet addiction disorder and Internet gaming disorder. Because both natural and digital sensorimotor data share common mathematical descriptions, one can quantify our informational sensorimotor needs using the signal processing metrics of entropy, noise, dimensionality, continuity, latency, and bandwidth. Such metrics describe in neutral terms the informational diet human brains require to self-calibrate, allowing individuals to maintain trusting relationships. With these metrics, we define the trust humans experience using the mathematical language of computational models, that is, as a primitive statistical algorithm processing finely grained sensorimotor data from neuromechanical interaction. This definition of neuromechanical trust implies that artificial sensorimotor inputs and interactions that attract low-level attention through frequent discontinuities and enhanced coherence will decalibrate a brain's representation of its world over the long term by violating the implicit statistical contract for which self-calibration evolved. Our hypersimplified mathematical understanding of human sensorimotor processing as multiscale, continuous-time vibratory interaction allows equally broad-brush descriptions of failure modes and solutions. For example, we model addiction in general as the result of homeostatic regulation gone awry in novel environments (sign reversal) and digital dependency as a sub-case in which the decalibration caused by digital sensorimotor data spurs yet more consumption of them. We predict that institutions can use these sensorimotor metrics to quantify media richness to improve employee well-being; that dyads and family-size groups will bond and heal best through low-latency, high-resolution multisensory interaction such as shared meals and reciprocated touch; and that individuals can improve sensory and sociosensory resolution through deliberate sensory reintegration practices. We conclude that we humans are the victims of our own success, our hands so skilled they fill the world with captivating things, our eyes so innocent they follow eagerly.

scholarly journals Shared meals among young adults are associated with better diet quality and predicted by family meal patterns during adolescence

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 883-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Larson ◽  
Jayne Fulkerson ◽  
Mary Story ◽  
Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Sociodemographic Factors ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Household Composition ◽  
Family Meals ◽  
Meal Patterns ◽  
Food And Beverage ◽  
Shared Meals

AbstractObjectiveTo describe shared meal patterns and examine associations with dietary intake among young adults.DesignPopulation-based, longitudinal cohort study (Project EAT: Eating and Activity in Teens and Young Adults).SettingParticipants completed surveys and FFQ in high-school classrooms in Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN, USA in 1998–1999 (mean age = 15·0 years, ‘adolescence’) and follow-up measures online or by mail in 2008–2009 (mean age = 25·3 years, ‘young adulthood’).SubjectsThere were 2052 participants who responded to the 10-year follow-up survey and reported on frequency of having shared meals.ResultsAmong young adults, the frequency of shared meals during the past week was as follows: never (9·9 %), one or two times (24·7 %), three to six times (39·1 %) and seven or more times (26·3 %). Having more frequent family meals during adolescence predicted a higher frequency of shared meals in young adulthood above and beyond other relevant sociodemographic factors such as household composition and parental status. Compared with young adults who never had family meals during adolescence, those young adults who reported seven or more family meals per week during adolescence had an average of one additional shared meal per week. Having more frequent shared meals in young adulthood was associated with greater intake of fruit among males and females, and with higher intakes of vegetables, milk products and some key nutrients among females.ConclusionsNutrition professionals should encourage families of adolescents to share meals often and establish the tradition of eating together, and work with young adults to ensure that healthy food and beverage choices are offered at mealtimes.

scholarly journals The Rocks

1970 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Karskens
Keyword(s):  
George Street ◽  
Archaeological Evidence ◽  
Sclerophyll Forest ◽  
Western Side ◽  
Shared Meals ◽  
Fish And Shellfish

The Rocks is the historic neighbourhood on the western side of Sydney Cove. It rises steeply behind George Street and the shores of west Circular Quay to the heights of Observatory Hill. It was named The Rocks by convicts who made homes there from 1788, but has a much older name, Tallawoladah, given by the first owners of this country, the Cadigal people. Tallawoladah, the rocky headland of Warrane (Sydney Cove), had massive outcrops of rugged sandstone, and was covered with dry sclerophyll forest of pink-trunked angophora, blackbutt, red bloodwood and Sydney peppermint. The Cadigal probably burnt the bushland here to keep the country open. Archaeological evidence shows that they lit cooking fires high on the slopes, and shared meals of barbecued fish and shellfish. Perhaps they used the highest places for ceremonies and rituals. Down below, Cadigal women fished the waters of Warrane in bark canoes.

scholarly journals Mediating American hospitality: Mark Zuckerberg’s challenge to Donald Trump?

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110557
Author(s):  
Alison Winch ◽  
Ben Little
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
White House ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
American Political Culture ◽  
The People ◽  
Socioeconomic Issues ◽  
American Society ◽  
Shared Meals

In 2017, Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, travelled America with a former White House photographer who took pictures of him sharing meals with families, workforces and refugee communities. These were then posted to Zuckerberg’s Facebook page, usually with a post by Zuckerberg drawing attention to socioeconomic issues affecting different American communities. This article argues that Zuckerberg is mediated on this tour as a worthy populist contender to Donald Trump, albeit of a centrist, liberal, corporate kind. In particular, divisions along the lines of race, migration and class, which have been appropriated and emphasised by Trump, are apparently bridged and resolved through the representation of Zuckerberg, and the promotion of Facebook as a mediated fulcrum for civil society. Zuckerberg is pictured sharing food with, for example, Republican voters in Ohio and Somali migrants in Minnesota. We investigate how the differences projected between Zuckerberg and Trump pivot on the commodification of hospitality, particularly the mediation of shared meals, American hospitality, masculinity and ‘diversity work’. We contextualise this analysis within an understanding of how Silicon Valley’s monopoly capitalism perpetuates inequalities in its workforces and through its product design. We also attempt to make sense of the different social actors involved in Zuckerberg’s mediated ‘Year of Travel’, including the PR team, the people in the photographs, the commenters, as well as the users of Facebook. Through these contextualisations, we argue that this mediated contestation of hospitality – who is welcome in American society, who is not and why – is central to understanding the tensions in contemporary American political culture.

Shared Food, Meals and Drinks: 10 Arguments Suggesting an Oral Transmission Route of SARS-CoV-2

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Michel Wendling ◽  
Aure Saulnier ◽  
Jean-Marc Sabatier
Keyword(s):  
Gastrointestinal Tract ◽  
Animal Models ◽  
Respiratory Disease ◽  
Gastrointestinal Symptoms ◽  
Transmission Route ◽  
Oral Transmission ◽  
Food And Beverages ◽  
Oral Inoculation ◽  
Patients Experience ◽  
Shared Meals

: Numerous observational, epidemiologic data have suggested that the risk of COVID19 is related to shared meals or drinks. The presence of ACE2 receptors in the gastrointestinal tract supports this hypothesis. Furthermore, several patients experience gastrointestinal symptoms without any respiratory disease. The SARS-CoV-2 found on food and packaging in China and the epidemic resurgence attributed to foods are also strong indications of an oral transmission route. Unprecedented biopersistence on skin, food, and beverages supports this theory. Finally, animal models reproducing the disease by oral inoculation are additional arguments in favor of an oro-digestive route of infection.

Last suppers at Sardis

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Marcus Rautman
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Late Antiquity ◽  
Social Arrangements ◽  
Shared Meals ◽  
Intended Use ◽  
Late Roman

Abstract The realia of shared meals provide a key index for social behavior in Late Antiquity. Much attention has been paid to the architecture and ceramics of dining, but usually separately and from unrelated contexts. Three excavated rooms at Sardis present an opportunity to extend this discussion to the furnishings that once stood at the center of domestic hospitality. Nearly complete marble tabletops recovered from their places of intended use show differing approaches to the physical and social arrangements of convivial dining, with implications for interpreting reception areas in Late Roman houses. Circumstances of preservation indicate that all three rooms were leveled, probably by earthquakes, in the early 7th c. CE.

scholarly journals Does family mealtime have a protective effect on obesity and good eating habits in young people? A 2000-2016 review

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abykeyla Mellisse Tosatti ◽  
Letícia W. Ribeiro ◽  
Rachel Helena Vieira Machado ◽  
Priscila Maximino ◽  
Ana Beatriz Bozzini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eating Habits ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Family Meals ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Sweetened Beverages ◽  
Mealtime Behavior ◽  
Beneficial Impact ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Shared Meals

Abstract Objectives: to review the prevalence of family meals and its impact on BMI and eating habits during childhood and adolescence. Methods: reviews are from Bireme / Lilacs / Scielo / Cochrane and Pubmed, between 2000-2016 with descriptors "family meal or mealtime", "behavior", "nutrition or diet or consumption or eating", and "child or children or adolescence"; performed by two independent examiners, according to the systematic steps in English and Portuguese. The articles were selected based on prevalence and/ or discussion between nutritional variables. 2,319 articles were found, which 15 were selected all in English: systematic reviews (n=2), cross-sectional studies (n=8), longitudinal studies (n=8); all related to children (n=5), adolescents (n=6) and both (n=5). Results: the mean of shared meals was 1x/day, with a prevalence of 27 to 81%. Most studies (n=13) reported the beneficial impact on BMI, higher consumption of fruit and vegetables, protein, calcium and a lower consumption of sweets and sugar sweetened beverages, family union and self-regulation of appetite. Conclusions: having daily family mealtime has beneficial effect on the nutritional status and children and adolescents' eating behavior.

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