Korzybski's theory was intended to improve the habits of response to environment.
And these denunciations were made because she established schools for the poor, and female friendly societies to improve the habits and character of those who had none to help them.
Because improving the bad habits of others is so much easier than changing your own.
Jamie Oliver is probably well on the way to the knighthood with his crusade to create 'a better, cooler, cleverer, fucking nation' by improving the eating habits of a bunch of school kids, the parents of whom pay £1.30 per lunch, of which a mere 37p goes on food.
A number of intervention studies have attempted to promote healthy body size through improving the eating habits of children, often with limited levels of success, and recent systematic reviews suggest multi-component studies that address both sides of the energy equation (i.e. physical activity and healthy eating) within interventions are the most effective [ 9].
Supplementing individual nutrients (N, P, K, Ca, and Mg) in 12 3 1 potting mix to the levels observed in MM improved the growth habit of the mutant plants.
As clinical routines are based on a mixture of education, evidence, experience and habit, improving the awareness of healthcare professionals of the bidirectional relationship between periodontitis and diabetes alone, 7 will not necessarily translate to patient benefit.
Indeed, it seemed that program participation alone improved the eating habits of participants, despite their psychological improvement and increased knowledge.
Improving the world's eating habits has the attraction, as the nineteenth-century American entrepreneurs discovered, of being what economic analysts call a 'high margin to cost business'.
The seemingly daunting task of improving the group's eating habits was undertaken at the Berkshire Farm Center and Services for Youth, which operates more than 100 social service programs in New York State.
