• Processed foods, refined sugars, and antibiotics within the first year of life can all damage this precious inner ecosystem. (bodyecology.com)
  • In order to test his hypothesis, Dr. Price had to find people groups who did not eat a modern diet of white flours, refined sugars, canned vegetables, and processed vegetable oils. (foodrenegade.com)
  • These findings should help ments in water supply, hygiene, and sanitation. (cdc.gov)
  • In his previous role as head of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Louis worked to co-invest with the World Bank in at-scale programs that would be rigorously evaluated. (cgdev.org)
  • Helping households and communities to improve their access to, and sustained use of, safe water, sanitation and hygiene services brings multiple benefits, starting with basic human dignity (who likes having to worry that they can't get a clean drink of water or use a proper toilet? (cgdev.org)
  • and increased income due to fewer days of work or school lost to water-borne diseases (a World Bank study estimated that in the year the program was launched Indonesia lost the equivalent of 2.3% of GDP due to poor sanitation and hygiene). (cgdev.org)
  • Improved water, sanitation and hygiene are also connected to many other development challenges, from reducing transmission of the polio virus to making AIDS treatment more effective to better nutritional uptake, so making progress in this area has substantial indirect benefits too. (cgdev.org)
  • and improved hygiene and sanitation. (who.int)
  • For this reason, it comes as little surprise that evidence from small trials has turned up potential links between the MMR vaccine and Crohn's - although this remains a highly controversial hypothesis. (healthy.net)
  • These topics are important because the results of epidemiologic studies contribute to generalizable knowledge by clarifying the causes of diseases, by combining epidemiologic data with information from other disciplines (for example, psychology and industrial hygiene), by evaluating the consistency of epidemiologic data with etiological hypotheses about causation, and by providing the basis for evaluating procedures for health promotion and prevention and public health practices. (benthambooks.com)
  • Dr. Singh is also a part-time instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where he instructs the "New Developments in Nanotechnology" module of the annual executive course "Comprehensive Industrial Hygiene: The Application of Basic Principles" attended by environmental health and safety professionals. (exponent.com)
  • For example, sampling strategies proposed by the American Industrial Hygiene Association and ComitĂ© EuropĂ©en de Normalisation permit workers to be aggregated into exposure groups. (cdc.gov)
  • Given the current limitations of industrial hygiene and occupational epidemiology, and the general unwil ingness of employers to routinely col ect exposure data, OELs should continue to be defined as upper limits for single shift exposures. (cdc.gov)
  • A particular goal of the Ebook is to provide ideas for strengthening causal inference in epidemiology in the context of refined research paradigms. (benthambooks.com)
  • Applied Occupational and Environmental Hygiene 16:251-256 (2001). (cdc.gov)
  • However, high fat and high-refined starch diets promote the obesity inducing Firmicutes bacteria. (salisburypost.com)
  • The new findings challenge the "food desert" hypothesis, which posits that a lack of access to supermarkets and grocery stores in some communities worsens the obesity crisis by restricting people's access to healthy foods. (fathead-movie.com)
  • The finding of an inverse obesity-dental decay relationship contradicts the obesity-sugar and the obesity-dental decay relationship hypotheses. (pridedentaloffice.com)
  • If the later hypothesis is true, one would expect dental decay to increase with obesity. (pridedentaloffice.com)
  • First, we can note what the diets of healthy traditional peoples didn't contain: refined sugar, white flour, canned foods, or refined or hydrogenated vegetable oils. (foodrenegade.com)
  • Refining the expert method to increase its efficiency while maintaining its ability to provide accurate job-specific estimates of exposure represents an active area of research. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The hypothesis testing strategy focuses on the probability that an arbitrary worker in a job group experiences a long-term mean exposure above the occupational exposure limit (OEL). (cdc.gov)
  • Earlier, unpublished versions of the NIOSH Occupational Exposure Banding process included band-specific ranges that approximate the GHS hazard categories, but has refined these cut points based on exposure response analyses, comparisons of OEBs to current OELs, and technical expertise. (cdc.gov)
  • According to the hygiene hypothesis , the dramatic rise in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases over the past 50 years is a result of the changes that we have seen in our inner ecology. (bodyecology.com)
  • Parents' income levels seemed to predict preventive oral health practices such as home hygiene and regular dental visits. (pridedentaloffice.com)
  • Whereas in popular culture and parlance it can often mean mere 'cleanliness', hygiene in its fullest and original meaning goes much beyond that to include all circumstances and practices, lifestyle issues, premises and commodities that engender a safe and healthy environment. (ind.in)
  • The outbreak emphasizes the importance of the exclusion of symptomatic food handlers and strict hand hygiene practices in the food service industry to prevent contamination of ready-to-eat foods and the kitchen environment. (who.int)
  • Strengthening surveillance, impactful awareness campaigns, targeted interventions, and improved hygiene practices among high-risk individuals are vital. (bvsalud.org)
  • The Essence of Care benchmarks includes personal hygiene that constitutes mouth care to ensure that the oral cavity is preserved in a healthy condition. (ukessays.com)
  • The sharp increase in refined foods in children's diets over the last 40/50 years. (avanawellness.com.au)
  • From a broader perspective, both of the initiatives were designed to test a hypothesis we had formed: that the concept of 'scaling up' was a myth. (cgdev.org)
  • generally, a lower nutrient-dense diet and/or refined, processed diet creates more inflammation in the body, damages the immune system and adversely impacts the gut and its microbiome, leading to increased sensitivity to different foods. (avanawellness.com.au)
  • Many people with peanut and soy allergies can still ingest highly refined oils made from these foods without reacting. (allergyeasy.com)
  • Evidence builds up - sometimes in support of a hypothesis, sometimes against - but until it reaches critical mass on one side or another, the mixed results of scientific research can sometimes seem confusing. (pridedentaloffice.com)
  • Because a proportion of case-patients do not report direct contact with camels or with persons who have symptomatic MERS, further research is needed to conclusively determine additional mechanisms of transmission, to inform public health practice, and to refine current precautionary recommendations. (cdc.gov)
  • Data of the present research suggest that the ingestion of animal fat, food rich in salt and refined carbohydrates were associated with OSCC cases. (bvsalud.org)
  • The research always starts with an idea or an assumption (hypothesis) which is tested through experiments and studies. (lu.se)
  • Contamination of food by both symptomatic and the hypothesis that food served at the restaurant was asymptomatic infected food handlers has been well the vehicle for infection. (who.int)
  • It also underscores the importance of gathering more data and refining the estimates. (sciencedaily.com)
  • And while I have dozens and dozens of references that support this hypothesis, we are limited here by the length of this article. (amherstburgchiropractic.com)
  • Our results support the hypothesis whereby pathogenic Leptospira survive at different depths in soils and superficial river sediments (depending on their water saturation) and are transferred to surface water during erosion. (bvsalud.org)
  • In 2008, Celeste Mergens founded the organization Days for Girls to address obstacles impeding women's and girls' access to sustainable hygiene and health education by enlisting volunteers around the world to construct reusable menstrual hygiene products for girls in low-income countries. (asu.edu)
  • Hygiene Association Journal to form the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health. (cdc.gov)
  • Essentially a trait to subject highly favoured, especially very trivial hypotheses to burdensome checking, for the sake of intellectual integrity or 'epistemic hygiene' which you intriguingly coin. (lesswrong.com)
  • However, unlike peanut and soybean oils, sesame oil is not highly refined and can still trigger allergy symptoms. (allergyeasy.com)
  • Hypothesis generation should be considered an iterative process in which possible explanations are continually refined or refuted. (cdc.gov)
  • These results might help to refine leptospirosis warnings given to the local population. (bvsalud.org)
  • Based on all the information gathered, the investigators make a hypothesis about the likely source of the outbreak. (cdc.gov)
  • If they are not able to develop a hypothesis, investigators can return to intensive, open-ended interviews or utilize a different set of standardized questions to develop clues to the outbreak source. (cdc.gov)
  • Source: Innate Physical Fitness & Spinal Hygiene, James Chestnut B. Ed., MSc. (amherstburgchiropractic.com)
  • Ethological studies assist in wildlife improvement and welfare of captive populations, contributing to refine management techniques and to report natural history in situ . (bvsalud.org)
  • The hygiene hypothesis postulates that children of affluent families are now exposed to fewer antigens than has been normal in the past, giving rise to increased prevalence of allergy and autoimmune diseases. (wikipedia.org)
  • They also outline that information should be available to make patients aware of particular hygiene needs that may be required as a result of specific treatments such as chemotherapy. (ukessays.com)
  • Hygiene Hypothesis: the theory is that basically our clean homes and cleaner living doesn't provide the right environment for a child's immune system to be challenged by germs and to develop properly. (avanawellness.com.au)
  • They include the hygiene hypothesis, which suggests that we've become so clean that our immune systems aren't good at deciding what they should react to. (allergyeasy.com)
  • These interviews are called "hypothesis-generating interviews. (cdc.gov)
  • Ideas for new drugs and prototypes for medical equipment are refined and undergo careful testing by private companies which acquire the rights to the products through contracts. (lu.se)
  • at any rate, I feel like it's my duty to keep good epistemic hygiene, though my skeptical reasoning might be superficial. (lesswrong.com)
  • This approach was refined during the inception phase to ensure it was relevant to WHO's context and for the purposes of this evaluation. (who.int)