Volume 13 Issue 2

▪ Keyword : Cuisine, Food, Economic Development, Health, Eco-Nutrition, Hangzhou

▪ Content : There has been a rapid and remarkable recovery in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, during the 1990s, of a distinctive cuisine whose origins can be traced back to, at least, the building of the Grand Canal between Beijing and Hangzhou in the 600s AD and the stimulus to trade and migration, that was provided.

▪ Keyword : globalisation, world food supplies, food security, China

▪ Content : This paper reviews the evidence on some of the major trends in economic development at a global level and assess their influence on food, nutrition and health. Food and nutrition are themselves broad topics, and each is influenced by a myriad of local and international forces, making them both interesting and important, but also challenging in their complexity.

▪ Keyword : China, governance, food security, safety, quality, human rights

▪ Content : National governments carry major responsibilities with regard to food security. In China, most families are now able to obtain enough food either by producing their own or by being able to purchase food in the marketplace.

▪ Keyword : IAEA, Nuclear and isotopic techniques, nutrition studies, East Asia and Pacific countries

▪ Content : The world’s scientific community has recognized that isotopic techniques play a vital role in monitoring the effectiveness of nutrition intervention by providing precise data on absorption, bioavailablity and interaction of various micronutrients in a cost effective manner.

▪ Keyword : Asia, intuitive eating, traditional diet, eating habits, nutrition transition

▪ Content : Current models of the nutrition transition focus on demographic changes and economic development. A further influence may be the adoption of western-based perceptions of beauty that lead to potentially harmful eating behaviours which contribute to overweight, obesity, and eating disorders.

▪ Keyword : Chinese women, food consumption, rural, soy foods, soy isoflavones

▪ Content : This study evaluated the intake of soy foods and soy isoflavones by rural adult women and potential determinant factors. Soy food consumption and information on age, education and medical history were collected on 1,188 subjects in Gansu Province and Hebei Province, China using a food frequency questionnaire to gather data on food intake over the past year.

▪ Keyword : ovariectomy, black tea extract, bone turnover, bone density

▪ Content : The purpose of this study was to examine whether whole aqueous black tea extract (BTE) prevents bone loss induced by ovarian hormone deficiency. Eighteen 95 –100 days old female albino rats were randomly assigned to three treatment groups [sham -operated control (sham); bilaterally ovariectomized (ovx) and ovx + aqueous black tea extract (BTE)] and sacrificed after 28 days.

▪ Keyword : legumes, diet, survival, FHILL, mortality, food intake

▪ Content : To identify protective dietary predictors amongst long-lived elderly people (N=785), the “Food Habits in Later Life” (FHILL) study was undertaken among five cohorts in Japan, Sweden, Greece and Australia. Between 1988 and 1991, baseline data on food intakes were collected.

▪ Keyword : Hangzhou history, restaurants, traditions, gastronomy, trade, cuisine

▪ Content : The distinctive qualities of the cuisine of Hangzhou are the result of its geographical situation, which provided good soils, reliable rainfall, a lake that has been a water source and renowned beauty spot for centuries. The rich water-sources facilitated the development of gastronomy, agriculture, trade and administration, especially after it became the capital of the Southern Sung Dynasty.

▪ Keyword : evolution, food cultures, old age, China, chronic diseases

▪ Content : Cuisine, broadly food culture, has evolved greatly in the past ten thousand years, following the domestication of plants and animals which greatly increased the food supply and led to villages, cities and civilizations.

▪ Keyword : Hangzhou, cuisine, nutrition, chronic diseases, health

▪ Content : Cuisine is an activity that meets human physical and psychological needs. With the development of civilization, cuisine is an important component of culture and includes the dietary profession. However, each nation or each area has its own characteristic cuisine.

▪ Keyword : Hangzhou/Zhejiang, nutrition, cuisine, foods, health

▪ Content : Regional diets and associated cuisines and their contribution to overall regional nutrition are increasingly being scrutinized by scientists for their relationships to human health. The Hangzhou region in China has lower mortality rates associated with cardiovascular disease, lower incidences of diabetes mellitus and better blood pressure in the local population and the links between these lower rates of disease and the traditional regional cuisine are a source of interest.

▪ Keyword : Chinese food, cuisine, traditional food, processing, health

▪ Content : From ancient wisdom to modern science and technology, Chinese cuisine has been established from a long history of the country and gained a global reputation of its sophistication. Traditional Chinese foods and cuisine that exhibit Chinese culture, art and reality play an essential role in Chinese people’s everyday lives.

▪ Keyword : food technology, urbanization, food storage, frozen and chilled foods, refrigeration

▪ Content : This article contains a general review of current food technologies and their effect on the quality and safety of foods. The uses of these technologies in the context of current and projected world population, urbanization prevention of food losses, preservation and trade of foods, domestically and internationally are briefly reviewed. Technologies discussed are related to food storage, refrigeration, frozen foods, milling and baking, canning, pickling, extrusion processes, fermentation, and to foods and food ingredients such as fruits and vegetables, animal products, fat and oils, canned products, and food additives.

▪ Keyword : death rate, urban, rural, life expectancy, nutrition related disease, Zhejiang Province

▪ Content : In Zhejiang province economic development and changes in nutrition appear to have increased both life expectancy and nutrition-related chronic disease morbidity. Life expectancy is longer in urban populations than in rural and in both urban and rural females.

▪ Keyword : regional economies, food industry, China, health, wealth

▪ Content : This paper discusses the significance of the food industry for the Zhejiang provincial economy and for provincial economies generally. It is suggested that the strong ties between the food industry and provincial economies in China means that the food industry can be a key influence in the economic development of regional China.