Similar to other cultural activities in the African context, food intake is a cultural activity that goes beyond the physical consumption to defining relationships and cultural identity.
We conducted several sensitivity analyses, including modeling the log of albumin excretion, use of energy intake to define soda consumption, and adjustment for overall energy intake and basal metabolic rate.
About a fifth of these made it onto the ballot, including proposals to ban the sale of horse meat for human consumption (approved), to define marriage exclusively as a union between a man and a woman (approved), to repeal the sales tax on snack foods and bottled water (approved), and to offer "none of the above" as a ballot option (rejected).
The simulation results were analyzed to find the combination of parameters yielding the lowest energy consumption and to define potential energy savings for office buildings located in various climate zones.
Although taxes on nonessential or "luxury" items are politically popular, luxury consumption is difficult to define for tax purposes.
If it indeed attracts private industry that can help Mexico — the world's ninth-largest oil producer — do a better job of extracting its reserves, the impact could be significant, adding to the boom in shale oil and gas production in the United States and Canada of recent years, and further redrawing the lines of energy production and consumption that tend to define geopolitical realities.
The balance between healthy and troublesome levels of alcohol consumption is difficult to define.
Weekly alcohol consumption was used to define respondents as abstainers (no alcohol), or drinkers within or above gender-specific recommended weekly limits (≤21 vs. 22+ units for men; ≤14 vs. 15+ units for women) [ 36].
In the risk averse case, we need to also take into account the effect of remittances on consumption variance in order to define the concavity or convexity of total returns to remittances.
Although it would be most advantageous to define consumption recommendations for chemicals undergoing increasing or peak emissions, the issuing of advisories well before undertaking emission reduction is unlikely.
