scholarly journals Association of Cooking Patterns with Inflammatory and Cardio-Metabolic Risk Biomarkers

Nutrients ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 633
Author(s):  
Belén Moreno-Franco ◽  
Montserrat Rodríguez-Ayala ◽  
Carolina Donat-Vargas ◽  
Helena Sandoval-Insausti ◽  
Jimena Rey-García ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Renal Function ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Metabolic Health ◽  
Food Preservation ◽  
Social Business ◽  
Urine Albumin ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alcoholic Drinks ◽  
Traditional Pattern ◽  
Business Pattern

Diet has been clearly associated with cardiovascular disease, but few studies focus on the influence of cooking and food preservation methods on health. The aim of this study was to describe cooking and food preservation patterns, as well as to examine their association with inflammatory and cardio-metabolic biomarkers in the Spanish adult population. A cross-sectional study of 10,010 individuals, representative of the Spanish population, aged 18 years or over was performed using data from the ENRICA study. Food consumption data were collected through a face-to-face dietary history. Cooking and food preservation patterns were identified by factor analysis with varimax rotation. Linear regression models adjusted for main confounders were built. Four cooking and food preservation patterns were identified. The Spanish traditional pattern (positively correlated with boiling and sautéing, brining, and light frying) tends to be cardio-metabolically beneficial (with a reduction in C-reactive protein (−7.69%)), except for high density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c), insulin levels, and anthropometrics. The health-conscious pattern (negatively correlated with battering, frying, and stewing) tends to improve renal function (with a reduction in urine albumin (−9.60%) and the urine albumin/creatinine ratio (−4.82%)). The youth-style pattern (positively correlated with soft drinks and distilled alcoholic drinks and negatively with raw food consumption) tends to be associated with good cardio-metabolic health except, for lower HDL-c (−6.12%), higher insulin (+6.35%), and higher urine albumin (+27.8%) levels. The social business pattern (positively correlated with the consumption of fermented alcoholic drinks, food cured with salt or smoke, and cured cheese) tends to be detrimental for the lipid profile (except HDL-c), renal function (urine albumin +8.04%), diastolic blood pressure (+2.48%), and anthropometrics. Cooking and food preservation patterns showed a relationship with inflammatory and cardio-metabolic health biomarkers. The Spanish traditional pattern and the health-conscious pattern were associated with beneficial effects on health and should be promoted. The youth-style pattern calls attention to some concerns, and the social business pattern was the most detrimental one. These findings support the influence of cooking and preservation patterns on health.

scholarly journals KAJIAN BISNIS SOSIAL PEDAGANG PERANTARA DALAM UPAYA PENGEMBANGAN HORTIKULTURA DI JAWA BARAT

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Charina, Gema Wibawa Mukti, Rani Andriani
Keyword(s):  
Market Segmentation ◽  
Consumer Demand ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Social Business ◽  
The Social ◽  
Business Pattern ◽  
Agricultural Supply

Currently, 90% of Indonesian small scale agribusiness actors arebeing faced to the global market era. They are also facing a fast growthrate of global market and the market segmentation phenomenon whichexpects positive changes and adaptations in the agricultural supply chain.The method that used in this study is case study. The study location wasbeing selected based on its potential of horticulture product.The study showed that currently the traders have changed theirbusiness pattern from a pure business to a business which relies more onthe partnership with the farmers. This phenomenon was being emerged bythe consumer demand which expects the continuity of supply.From the Social Business aspect point of view, generally thetraders do the partnership system because of their needs of continuity ofsupply from the farmers, not based on helping the farmers. The result ofweighting showed the total score placed between 28-32,5 which means itcan be categorized as a semi-social business.Overall, the study showed that currently the changes are happeningin the traders business pattern, thus, it gives hopes to the agriculturaldevelopment in Indonesia especially for horticulture products of smallscale stakeholders.Keywords: Global market, traders, horticulture, social business.

The Social Business and Entrepreneurship Competences Interface

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-78
Author(s):  
Vytautas Kvieska
Keyword(s):  
Social Business ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Effect of Oral carnosine supplementation on urinary TGF-β in diabetic nephropathy: a randomized controlled trial

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Narongrit Siriwattanasit ◽  
Bancha Satirapoj ◽  
Ouppatham Supasyndh
Keyword(s):  
Renal Function ◽  
Diabetic Nephropathy ◽  
Transforming Growth Factor Beta ◽  
Transforming Growth Factor ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Oral Supplementation ◽  
Urine Albumin ◽  
Baseline Values ◽  
Growth Factor Beta ◽  
Baseline Characteristics

Abstract Background Activation of the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) pathway is a significant contributor to the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy. Carnosine is a dipeptide that can inhibit TGF-β synthesis. We tested the hypothesis that carnosine supplement added to standard therapy will result in reduced urinary TGF-β levels among patients with diabetic nephropathy. Methods We randomly assigned 40 patients with diabetic nephropathy and albuminuria 30–299 mg/day to treatment with carnosine (2 g/day) or placebo for 12 weeks. Urinary TGF-β level was determined using ELISA, urine albumin was ascertained by immunonephelometric assay, and renal function and metabolic profiles were determined at baseline and during 12 weeks of active treatment. Primary outcome was decrease in urinary levels of TGF-β. Results The 2 groups were comparable for baseline characteristics, blood pressure, urine albumin, urine TGF-β and renal function measurements. Urinary TGF-β significantly decreased with carnosine supplement (− 17.8% of the baseline values), whereas it tended to increase with placebo (+ 16.9% of the baseline values) (between-group difference P < 0.05). However, blood urea nitrogen, serum creatinine, glomerular filtration rate and other biochemical parameters remained unchanged during the study period including urinary albuminuria. Both groups were well tolerated with no serious side-effects. Conclusions These data indicated an additional renoprotective effect of oral supplementation with carnosine to decrease urinary TGF-β level that serves as a marker of renal injury in diabetic nephropathy. Trial registration Thai Clinical Trials, TCTR20200724002. Retrospectively Registered 24 July 2020.

The Social Meaning of Food Consumption Behaviors in Rural Brazil: Agreement and Intracultural Variation

Field Methods ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1525822X2199216
Author(s):  
Lesley Jo Weaver ◽  
Nicole Henderson ◽  
Craig Hadley
Keyword(s):  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Cultural Consensus ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
The Social ◽  
Heads Of Household ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
Open Question ◽  
Qualitative Analyses

Food insecurity (FI) is often assessed through experienced-based measures, which address the number and extent of coping strategies people employ. Coping indices are limited because, methodologically, they presuppose that people engage coping strategies uniformly. Ethnographic work suggests that subgroups experience FI quite differently, meaning that coping strategies might also vary within a population. Thus, whether people actually agree on FI coping behaviors is an open question. This article describes methods used to test whether there was a culturally agreed on set of coping behaviors around FI in rural Brazilian majority-female heads of household, and to detect patterned subgroup variation in that agreement. We used cultural consensus and residual agreement analyses on freelist and rating exercise data. This process could be applied as a first step in developing experience-based measures of FI sensitive to intragroup variation, or to identify key variables to guide qualitative analyses.

Alcohol norms and their enforcement: an assessment from a socio-legal perspective

2010 ◽  
pp. 92-112
Author(s):  
Franco Prina
Keyword(s):  
Implementation Process ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Protection Time ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alcoholic Drinks ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Relationship

The socio-legal perspective on the alcohol legislation, including the norms concerned with the relationship between individuals and alcoholic drinks, helps answering some essentials questions: what was/is the "social construction" of the alcohol problem in different eras and different cultures and, consequently, which objectives are deemed to be worthy of pursuit through the creation or amendment of legislation? Which social actors have the ability, in a given period of time, to inscribe the relevance of innovative alcohol legislation on the political agenda and what kind of dialectic is used among those who champion points of view, competences and above all, different interests? Which interests and values would appear to meet with legislatory protection time after time? What tools, of the ample range available, are chosen to achieve the aims set out? To what extent is legislation implemented (or not implemented), and why? Which aspects of the implementation process prove to be most significant, i.e. define the actual content of the legislation "in force", and are therefore tangibly experienced by the law's end target? How much of an impact does legislation have on behavior which is subject to regulation or on problems which stem from such behavior?

‘A SILENT AND INVISIBLE PRESSURE’: A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH EIGHT JAPANESE WOMEN COMPOSERS

Tempo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (290) ◽  
pp. 25-39
Author(s):  
Chikako Morishita
Keyword(s):  
Women Composers ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Japanese Women ◽  
Social Business ◽  
The Social ◽  
Opening And Closing

AbstractOn 27 August 2018, the first Women Composers Meeting (中堅女性作曲家サミット vol. 1) was held at the Social Business Lab in Tokyo as part of the Project PPP Summer Composition Academy. Eight Japanese women composers in their mid-thirties to early forties were invited to speak: Noriko Koide, Yu Kuwabara, Tomoko Momiyama, Chikako Morishita (moderator), Akiko Ushijima, Ai Watanabe, Yukiko Watanabe, and Akiko Yamane. This article is a compilation drawn from their three-hour discussion as well as from the opening and closing dialogues. All conversations were held in Japanese and are here translated for publication by the author with the aid of Michiko Saiki.

The University in a Retail Context

2019 ◽  
pp. 249-267
Author(s):  
Xhimi Hysa ◽  
Vusal Gambarov ◽  
Besjon Zenelaj
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Social Business ◽  
Business Model Canvas ◽  
The Social ◽  
Retail Activity ◽  
The University ◽  
Case Based

On-campus retailing is a spread practice, but academia has almost underestimated its potential. Nevertheless, not every type of retail activity adds value to customers and society. When the proposed value is society-driven and sensitive to consumers' wellbeing, customers' engagement increases. One business model, through which it is possible to exploit the benefits of on-campus retailing by adding social value, is the Yunus Social Business. This is a case-based study aiming to describe, through the Social Business Model Canvas, the founding of an organic shop within a university that is supplied by administrative staff of the university that are at the same time also local farmers. Further, the shop aims to resell organic food to university staff and students. The case study is theoretically enriched by traditional Porterian frameworks and new service frameworks such as the service-dominant logic by emphasizing the role of value proposition, value co-creation, and value-in-context.

Leveraging Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning for Future IS Security Professionals

2018 ◽  
pp. 2558-2570
Author(s):  
Ciara Heavin ◽  
Karen Neville ◽  
Sheila O'Riordan
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Social Business ◽  
Career Expectations ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Is Security ◽  
Modern Learning ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The use of social media technologies to connect with peers/colleagues is prevalent amongst students and practitioners alike. These technologies are being used to share ideas, content, resources, and experiences for both social and professional purposes. However, modern learning environments do not always implement the latest technologies and are therefore failing to support the needs and career expectations of Generation 2020.The social business gaming platform considered in this chapter leverages the social networking concept in an academic environment. This study was undertaken in order to develop Information Systems (IS) security skillsets through the creation and facilitation of social business gaming. The game was utilised as a part of the continual assessment process to evaluate group interaction, role-playing, competition and learning in an ISS assignment and facilitate the students to measure their own performances of understanding.

Key Drivers of Performance and Profitability in a Social Business

2021 ◽  
pp. 264-281
Author(s):  
Daisy Isabella van Steenbergen ◽  
Paulo Graça Ramos ◽  
Bruno Barbosa Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Environmental Analysis ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Research Topic ◽  
Strategic Analysis ◽  
Environmental Scanning ◽  
Social Business ◽  
Successful Strategy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Key Drivers

In order to build a successful strategy for any type of business, a strategic analysis needs to be performed. A strategic analysis consists of multiple elements, but it always starts with environmental scanning. This research focuses on that very first step by conducting an environmental analysis. It is a strategic tool that identifies all the external and internal elements, which could possibly affect the organization's performance. The aim of this research was not to provide all the final and conclusive answers. It was merely to explore the research topic with varying levels of depth. Additionally, this research tended to tackle new problems on which little or no previous research has been done by combining and elaborating well-known models, such as PESTEL, Porter´s 5 forces, and SWOT. The research problem of this chapter can be described as to determine the possibilities of starting a successful commercial business within the social welfare sector of Portugal.

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