Sentence examples for nutritional cost from inspiring English sources

Unfortunately, there's a huge nutritional cost for that convenience.

The nutritional cost associated with the relatively lower forage quality of the south range should be lower in the wet season and may be balanced by other benefits.

The development of the flank gland could lead to immunosuppression, indirectly through increased nutritional cost (Lochmiller 1996; Sheldon and Verhulst 1996) or directly as androgenic hormones required for its development have immunosuppressive effects (Folstad and Karter 1992).

Nevertheless, RpoS/ppGpp levels are still higher in several naturally stress-resistant isolates and in some pathogenic lineages of E. coli, and these carry an even greater nutritional cost than in our ancestor.

He writes frequently about the societal, environmental and nutritional costs of how Americans eat.

On one side, natural selection should favor mothers who limit the nutritional costs of pregnancy and have more offspring; on the other, it should also favor fathers whose offspring maximize the nutrients they receive during gestation, setting up a direct conflict.

And attacking junk foods, high-fructose corn syrup and cigarettes through taxes curtails only the enablers rather than addressing the real issue: People want to consume these things, and they are sometimes uninformed about the health and nutritional costs or are just plain stupid.

In a 3-D-printed cookie, the same servings might go much further, because the butter and sugar could be stuffed into small pockets, or alternated with fat-free layers, mimicking the rich mouthfeel of a full-calorie dessert without incurring the nutritional costs.

Both these biological processes are associated with nutritional costs [10], [12].

The effect can be attributed to increased nutritional costs associated with the development of an effective immune response [2], [12].

In elk, reduced reproduction due to predation from wolves appears to be mediated by elk changing their foraging pattern in response to wolves (which has nutritional costs) rather than by increasing stress levels [73].