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    Role of fruit juice in achieving the 5-a-day recommendation for fruit and vegetable intake

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    Although there is strong evidence that consumption of fruit and vegetables is associatedwith a reduced rate of all-cause mortality, only a minority of the population consumes5 servings a day, and campaigns to increase intake have had limited success.This review examines whether encouraging the consumption of fruit juice might offera step toward the 5-a-day target. Reasons given for not consuming whole fruit involvepracticalities, inconvenience, and the effort required. Psychologically, what isimportant is not only basic information about health, but how individuals interprettheir ability to implement that information. It has been argued that fruit juice avoidsthe problems that commonly prevent fruit consumption and thus provides a practicalmeans of increasing intake and benefitting health through an approach with whichthe population can readily engage. Those arguing against consuming fruit juice emphasizethat it is a source of sugar lacking fiber, yet juice provides nutrients such asvitamin C, carotenoids, and polyphenols that offer health-related benefits. Actively encouragingthe daily consumption of fruit juice in public health policy could help populationsachieve the 5-a-day recommendation for fruit and vegetable intake

    Ieee Ieee Intelligent Systems

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    isturbed by, or misinterpret, discrepancies from human norms. Thus, virtual human research must draw heavily on psychology and communication theory to appropriately convey nonverbal behavior, emotion, and personality. This broad range of requirements poses a serious problem. Researchers working on particular aspects of virtual humans cannot explore their component in the context of a complete virtual human unless they can understand results across this array of disciplines and assemble the vast range of software tools (for example, speech recognizers, planners, and animation systems) required to construct one. Moreover, these tools were rarely designed to interoperate and, worse, were often designed with different purposes in mind. For example, most computer graphics research has focused on high fidelity offline image rendering that does not support the fine-grained interactive control that a virtual human must have over its body. In the spring of 2002, about 30 international research

    Health impacts of an environmental disaster: a polemic

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    The report of the commissioners appointed to examine, state, and report, who of the sufferers in the Charitable Corporation are objects of compassion [electronic resource].

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    Issued as a Parliamentary paper.Cf. Lambert 2050Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library
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