The Mediterranean Diet: Historical Background and Dietary Patterns in Pre-World War II Greece

This article links the terms of trade, money supply, labor market, and money and credit markets to explore a puzzle in Malayan economic history: why, despite rapid growth and high per capita income, did pre–World War II Malaya industrialize so little? A range of data is drawn together to show how for Malayan manufacturers economic boom was accompanied by precipitate deterioration in the real exchange rate, while in a slump credit contracted sharply and with it the size of the Malayan market for manufactures. Analysis of Malayan experience may be relevant for understanding slight industrialization elsewhere in Southeast Asia.

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Special Issue “Mediterranean Diet and Metabolic Diseases”

Nutrients ◽

10.3390/nu13082680 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (8) ◽

pp. 2680

Author(s):

Emmanuella Magriplis ◽

Michail Chourdakis

Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Diet ◽

Dietary Patterns ◽

Metabolic Diseases ◽

Special Issue ◽

Beneficial Effects ◽

The Mediterranean

The Mediterranean diet (MD) has been considered among the healthiest dietary patterns since a little over 50 years ago, Ancel Keys—as the key figure—provided evidence for the beneficial effects of the MD [...]

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Assimilation of Ethnic-Religious Minorities in the Netherlands: A Historical-Sociological Analysis of Pre–World War II Jews and Contemporary Muslims

Social Science History ◽

10.1017/ssh.2017.12 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 41 (3) ◽

pp. 477-504

Author(s):

Peter Tammes ◽

Peter Scholten

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

The Netherlands ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Religious Affiliation ◽

Religious Practices ◽

Boundary Crossing ◽

Dutch Society ◽

World War ◽

And Behavior ◽

Pre World War Ii

This article examines what assimilation trajectories were manifest among present-day Mediterranean Muslims and pre–World War II Jews in Dutch society. Alba and Nee conceptualized assimilation in terms of processes of spanning and altering group boundaries, distinguishing between boundary crossing, blurring, and shifting. This study carves out to what extent assimilation processes like boundary crossing, shifting, and blurring had taken place for those two non-Christian minority groups in Dutch society. This research is based on findings of recent (quantitative) empirical research into the assimilation of pre–World War II Jews in the Netherlands and on the collection of comparable research and data for the assimilation of contemporary Mediterranean Muslims. Our study suggests that processes of boundary crossing, such as observance of religious practices and consumption of religious food, and blurring, such as intermarriage, residential segregation, and religious affiliation, are much less advanced for Mediterranean Muslims in the present time. Though several factors might account for differences in boundary-altering processes between pre–World War II Jews and contemporary Mediterranean Muslims such as differences in length of stay in the Netherlands, the secularization process, and globalization, Jewish assimilation might provide us some reflections on assimilation of Mediterranean Muslims. The continuous arrival of Muslim newcomers might affect attitudes and behavior of settled Mediterranean Muslims, while policy to restrict family migration might be insufficient to stimulate Muslims to integrate in Dutch society given the quite negative mutual perceptions, the slow process of residential spreading, the continuation of observance of religious practices, and the low intermarriage rate.

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The Nation as Family

The Oxford Handbook of Politics and Performance ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190863456.013.47 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 622-636

Author(s):

Nobuko Anan

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Normal Family ◽

Reproductive Function ◽

Postwar Period ◽

Japanese Empire ◽

World War ◽

Critical Relation ◽

Pre World War Ii

This chapter examines mother-child love linked to love for the nation within two Japanese plays. In Rio Kishida’s Thread Hell (1984), a pre–World War II silk factory represents the Japanese Empire, where a mother and her daughter are manipulated by the nation. However, they eventually challenge this symbolic realm that forces women to sustain the national lineage through their reproductive function. In Hideki Noda’s MIWA (2015), a homosexual transvestite’s relationship with his mother in the postwar period is depicted. As resistance to heteronormative ideas about family, and the nation as its extension, he commits matricide, but this leads to his melancholia as he cannot fully give up his desire to belong to a “normal” family and nation. These plays explore the ways individuals develop a critical relation to the nation by reconfiguring their love for their mother.

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Abstract 13: Adherence to Various Dietary Patterns and Risk of Recurrent Coronary Heart Disease and Mortality in the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study

Circulation ◽

10.1161/circ.135.suppl_1.13 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 135 (suppl_1) ◽

Author(s):

James M Shikany ◽

Monika M Safford ◽

Joanna Bryan ◽

PK Newby ◽

Joshua S Richman ◽

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Keyword(s):

Racial Differences ◽

Mediterranean Diet ◽

Dietary Patterns ◽

Dietary Pattern ◽

Lower Risk ◽

Proportional Hazards ◽

Cox Proportional Hazards ◽

Mediterranean Diet Score ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Diet Score

Background: We have shown that the Southern dietary pattern, characterized by added fats, fried foods, organ and processed meats, and sugar-sweetened beverages, is associated with a greater risk of incident CHD in REGARDS, a national, population-based, longitudinal cohort. We sought to determine if the Southern pattern, other dietary patterns, and the Mediterranean diet score were associated with CHD events and mortality in REGARDS participants who previously reported CHD. Methods: REGARDS enrolled white and black adults aged ≥45 years between 2003-2007. Data were analyzed from 3,562 participants with CHD at baseline. Participants completed an FFQ at baseline, from which 5 dietary patterns were derived through factor analysis (Table). The Mediterranean diet score was calculated for each participant. Expert-adjudicated CHD events included myocardial infarction and CHD death. Cox proportional hazards regression was used to model the association of the dietary patterns and score with CHD events and death, adjusting for sociodemographics, lifestyle factors, energy intake, anthropometrics, and medical conditions. Results: Over 7 years of follow-up, there were 581 recurrent CHD events and 1,098 deaths. In fully-adjusted analyses, the highest quartile of adherence to the alcohol/salads pattern and highest group of the Mediterranean diet score were associated with lower risk of recurrent CHD compared to the lowest quartile/group (HR: 0.76; 95% CI: 0.59 – 0.98, HR: 0.78; 95% CI: 0.62 – 0.98, respectively). The highest quartile of adherence to the Southern pattern was associated with higher mortality (HR: 1.57; 95% CI: 1.28 – 1.91), while the highest group of the Mediterranean diet score was associated with lower mortality (HR: 0.80; 95% CI: 0.68 – 0.95). Conclusions: While the Southern dietary pattern was not related to risk of recurrent CHD, it was associated with higher mortality in REGARDS participants with existing CHD. Greater adherence to a Mediterranean diet was associated with lower risk of recurrent CHD and mortality.

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The Mother Who Birthed the Florida Park Service

How the New Deal Built Florida Tourism ◽

10.5744/florida/9780813056319.003.0005 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 54-68

Author(s):

David J. Nelson

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

The State ◽

World War ◽

Park Service ◽

Pre World War Ii

As the most powerful woman in pre–World War II Florida, May Mann Jennings was instrumental in the development of the Florida Park Service and its predecessor, Florida Forestry Service, as well as bringing the Civilian Conservation Service into the state for park work.

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Innovation in pre-World War II AAVE?

Varieties of English Around the World - The Evolution of Englishes ◽

10.1075/veaw.g49.21mie ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 365-385

Author(s):

Ulrich Miethaner

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

World War ◽

Pre World War Ii

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2. Historical background

International Human Rights Law ◽

10.1093/he/9780198805212.003.0002 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Rhona K. M. Smith

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

World War Ii ◽

Historical Background ◽

International Labour Organization ◽

World War ◽

International Human Rights ◽

Traditional Concept ◽

Human Rights Protection ◽

Rights Protection ◽

International Human

This chapter provides an historical sketch of international human rights. It considers the divergent views as to the origins of human rights, and suggests that human rights represent the modern interpretation and an expansion of the traditional concept of the rule of law. The chapter discusses the law of aliens; diplomatic laws; the laws of war; slavery; minority rights; the establishment of the International Labour Organization; and human rights protection after World War II.

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