...The country that we researched to export Peanut Butter & Co peanut butter to is Germany. Germany is located in the Western and Central part of Europe. The Capital is Berlin that is also the largest city in the country. Other large cities in the country include Hamburg, Munich, Cologne and Frankfurt. Germany is part of the European Union, out of all the states that make up the European Union Germany is one of the most populous countries and has the largest economies. We chose to export peanut butter to Germany, because it is a rare item to find in the country. The German people are more familiar with a product called Nutella. Nutella is a creamy Chocolate hazelnut spread that is used on all food such as breads, fruits and more. Peanut Butter and Co offer a variety of product but one similar product to Nutella is their “Dark Chocolate Dream” peanut butter. Peanut Butter & Co could have an advantage over Nutella because recently the price of Nutella rose due to a shortage of hazelnuts. The Dark Chocolate Dream as well as the other peanut products they contains no cholesterol, no trans fats, no hydrogenated oils, and no high-fructose corn syrup. It is also gluten-free, certified vegan, and certified kosher. Since the Germans are all about eating healthy with no artificial additives this product will be a perfect fit in the country. The United States has to follow regulations and directives form the FDA. Germany also has to follow strict protocols in order to receive products from...
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...of January 27, 2012, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention noted that diabetes is ranked seventh among the leading causes of deaths in America. There are three main types of diabetes that can affect a person. Type I, which usually has an effect on the younger population, Type II, which effects the population of people above 40, and gestational diabetes, which affects women during their third trimester of a pregnancy. With Type I diabetes, the pancreas produces little or no insulin in the body. Type I diabetics must use insulin injections on a daily basis. Type I diabetes usually affect children and young adults, but it can affect people of any age. Type I diabetes comes from the destruction of beta cells that are in the body. The cause of the beta cells' destruction has yet to be determined, but it is believed that it is caused by something that has gone wrong with the body's immune system. The problem with Type II diabetes is that the beta cells do not produce enough insulin in the body. As a result of this problem, the cells in the body do not react to the insulin in the body because they cannot admit glucose through the membranes of the cells. Scientists have yet to determine exactly what causes Type II diabetes, but they do know that it is caused by multiple factors. There are several factors, such as genetics, obesity, and physical inactivity that can increase a person's risk of developing Type II diabetes....
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...Name: Instructor: Subject: Date: Corporate valuation: Archer-Daniels-Midland Company ADM (Archer-Daniels-Midland) company is one of the world’s largest food processing firms operating over 270 plants worldwide and operating in over 75 countries. Headquartered in Decatur, Illinois, the company is listed on the New York stock exchange main board and is a part of the S&P 500 index. The company is one of the most admired in the US and internationally being named the world’s most admired food production company by the fortune magazine for three years in a row from 2009 to 2011. ADM has a staff of about 30,000 people in its workforce to help it run its operations and hundreds of thousands more who depend on it indirectly as suppliers and business partners. ADM seeks to partner with farmers by creating thousands of products and markets for their crops. ADM was founded in 1902 when George Archer and John Daniels set up a factory to crush linseed. The company changed its name to its current Archer-Daniels-Midland company when in 1923 it acquired the Midland Linseed Products Company to further grow its linseed business. Since then, ADM has expanded both in geographical size and business segments as it entered more business lines such as milling, food processing, manufacture of specialty foods ingredients for industrial use and nutritional products to the processing of cocoa. The company also has significant interests in renewable energy. ADM is also involved in the storage and transportation...
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...Diabetes a silent killer; Diabetes affects 20.8 million people in the United States alone and unfortunately, 6.2 million people in the United State are unaware that they have this disease. (CDC, 2007) Until they do, they have already developed life-threatening complications. According to the CDC the rates of Diabetes Type II are rising so quickly that they have declared the disease an epidemic. Complications may include blindness, kidney disease, nerve disease, heart and vascular disease and strokes."Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness, kidney failure, and leg amputations. In fact, it is the third leading cause of death in the United States." (Magee, 1999 p. 2) There are three main types of diabetes--Type I, which affects primarily the younger population; Type II, which primarily affects the population above 40; and gestational diabetes, which affects women during the third trimester of their pregnancy. Some causes of diabetes are heredity, being overweight, and problems with beta cells, which are located in the pancreas. Type II diabetes is most commonly seen in adults (another name for the disease is Adult Onset Diabetes). However, with poor diet, nutrition and lack of exercise there are and increasing number of children and adolescents developing type II diabetes. Diabetes mellitus type II is a metabolic disorder in which the cells in the body do not recognize and ignore the insulin produced. Insulin is a type of hormone that converts sugar, starches, and other types...
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...Running head: “Entrepreneurial Leadership” Assignment 1: “Entrepreneurial Leadership” Abstract This paper will show the analysis of how successful this business has been setting itself apart from other fast food chains in relation to their philosophy, their original values as a family run business all the while giving contributions of success. You will see how the ethical and social practices of this family business as paved a customer appreciated restaurant of today with old fashion hard work and common sense. Assignment 1 – “Entrepreneurial Leadership” Determine how Five Guys’ philosophy sets it apart from other fast-food chains? In today’s fast food market chains businesses have to focus more on nutrition as well as making profits. Today within our health conscience world we now live in and with all the media hype about overweight people in the United States fast food chains need to really market themselves in a way to stand out above others in order to compete. Although the number one goal of any business model is to maximize profits and minimize costs in order to meet shareholders expectations as well as growing the business to maximize profits they now have to be thinking of creative ways to grab the customers and make them feel they are making a well educated guess in eating healthier even though it is still considered fast food. The Five-Guy business model has really been creative in certain ways to capture this. The owner Jerry Murrell believes...
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...“Rate Your Plate” HWE 100 Human Nutrition - PERSONAL DIET EVALUATION PROJECT The purpose of this project is to put theory into practice by examining your food intake and making decisions about your eating habits. To begin the project, keep a record of your food and beverage intake for three typical days. Write down what you eat and drink and the quantity of each food or drink consumed. Keep another record of one day of your activities (24 hour period). Write down your activities and the time spent on each throughout your day. Include time sleeping or sitting quietly – all activities, including sedentary ones, burn calories. Use the website: choosemyplate.gov and the “Super Tracker” feature to analyze your diet and physical activity. Create a profile for yourself and enter your foods and beverages (item and quantity consumed) for analysis. Substitute a food of similar nutrient content if you can’t find a match within the database. Or, enter ingredients separately for mixed food items. For example, a taco might have: a corn shell, beef, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes etc. See the last page of this document for more detailed instructions for setting up your profile within Super Tracker. Enter your 24 hours of activity into the “Activity Tracker” portion of the program. Refer to the Rate Your Plate Grading Guidelines Rubric for specific grading information for this project – attached at the end of this document. The time required to complete the diet...
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...British Journal of Nutrition (2006), 96, Suppl. 2, S61–S67 q The Authors 2006 DOI: 10.1017/BJN20061865 Nuts and coronary heart disease: an epidemiological perspective ´ John H. Kelly Jr and Joan Sabate* Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA 92350, USA The epidemiological evidence for the cardio-protective effect of nut consumption is presented and reviewed. Four large prospective epidemiological studies of primary prevention of coronary heart disease are reviewed and discussed (Adventist Health Study, Iowa Women’s Health Study, Nurses’ Health Study and the Physicians’ Health Study). Other studies of nuts and coronary heart disease risk are addressed. The combined evidence for a cardio-protective effect from nut consumption is summarized and presented graphically. The risk of coronary heart disease is 37 % lower for those consuming nuts more than four times per week compared to those who never or seldom consume nuts, with an average reduction of 8·3 % for each weekly serving of nuts. The evidence for a causal relationship between nut consumption and reduced risk of coronary heart disease is outlined using Hill’s criteria for causality and is found to support a causal cardio-protective relationship. Nuts: Cardiovascular: Coronary heart disease: Diabetes: Cohort studies: Causality: Hill’s criteria Nuts have constituted a part of mankind’s diet since pre-agricultural times (Eaton & Konner, 1985), providing a complex food...
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...are different measures of DRI, memorize specific DRI, Calcium, Vitamin C All AMDR. Make sure to know the value through the lifecycles. Baby, Children, Adults What is the tolerable upper intake level? (Attached to the end of the paper) The highest level of daily consumption that current data has shown to cause no side effects in humans. Ensures people do not take harmful amounts of supplements. Analyze how the dietary guidelines for Americans can be used to design a healthful diet. Identify how to choose healthy options base on the plate method. ½ fruits and vegetables and ½ fruits and proteins What is true of the choose my plate.gov recommendations as represented by their setting. Half plate should be fruits and vegetables Determine various sources of reliable and accurate nutrition. Explain how to assess the validity of...
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...1. Introduction Packaging has become an integral part of the processing, preservation, distribution, marketing, and even the cooking of foods. Food packaging materials include paper, cellulose products, cellophane, tinplate, aluminium, stainless steel, ceramics, glass, rubber, aluminium foil, plastics and laminates (Mercer, 1990). Since its introduction in the 1950’s, the use of plastic in the packaging industry has increased at a greater rate than any other packaging material due to their low cost and outstanding functional service properties (Hernandez and Giacin, 1998). Packaging materials provide protection for microbiological, chemical, and physical contamination (World Packaging Organisation, 2009). However, components of the packaging material must be safe to the product as well as to the consumers. Food may interact with the packaging materials and this may change the initial mechanical and barrier properties as well as the safety of the product (Sablani and Rahman, 2007). Three types of food packaging interaction are distinguished: (i) migration, (ii) permeation, (iii) and absorption. Migration is the transfer of chemical components from the packaging material to the contained food product (Paneva et al., 2005). The migration of potentially toxic substances from packaging material to foods is a major concern in the selection and use of materials for food packaging because of the possible effect upon human health. In addition, migration of other components...
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...candelabras and Rose centerpieces, or go for hip and trendy with a bold color scheme and modern furnishings. Music playing subtly in the background should reflect your theme, such as classical for a traditional fine dining restaurant or jazz tunes for something modern. Lighting should also be subtle, leaning toward dim but romantic. MACRO INDUSTRY ANALYSIS FOR FINE DINE RESTAURENT IN GENEVA USING PESTEL The restaurant concepts of fine dine in Geneva depend upon a number of industry-specific and general economic, political, legal and other factors, many of which are beyond our control. The restaurant industry is affected by changes in national, regional and local economic conditions, consumer spending patterns and consumer preferences. Recessionary economic cycles, a protracted economic slowdown, a worsening economy, increased unemployment, decreased salaries and wage rates, increased energy prices, inflation, rising interest rates or other...
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...T he Mark eting Plan Chapter 5 Copyright ©2000 Sutia Kim Alter. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/) Chapter 5 “Emerson said that if you build a better mousetrap the world will beat a path to your door, and that may have been true then … but it’s not true now. No one will come. You have to package and promote that mousetrap. Then they will come.” — King C. Gillette Gillette Razors O verview: Marketing is the process of planning and executing a strategy to get goods and services to customers. The components of marketing can be described as the “four P’s” or the marketing mix. Product consists of the products and services that your social enterprise furnishes; it is characterized by quality, assortment, packaging, and guarantees. Price is the amount you will charge customers for the products or services. Promotion is how you will create awareness of your products or services in the marketplace; advertising, publicity, and sales are aspects of promotion. Place (distribution) is how you will bring your products or services to your customers; distriMarketing Synergies bution comprises wholesalers, retailers, multilevel marketers, and “The most effective and efficient marketing plans are sales representatives. The marthose that maximize the synergy between products, distriketing mix is a set of tools and bution channels, price, and promotion. A unified promotechniques social...
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...Dear nutrition student, Thank you for inquiring about my RD/DTR study guide. And yes, there is no catch, the study guide is COMPLETELY FREE! All I ask for is some feedback. So feel free to shoot me any questions/comments! A little background: This study guide is the culmination of years of my own research. And after careful thought, I put into the study guide what I feel are the most important concepts you need to know for the RD/DTR exam. If you notice, I spent much time teaching you in detail the concepts you need to know, not just “spitting” you questions with little or no explanation. I believe this is important. I know you might be thinking “oh, how am I going to absorb and learn all this material?” I say, just read and answer the questions at your own pace. Simply test yourself and of course take some breaks along the way. Just take it one concept at a time. After you have mastered one concept, then move on to the next. I know if you study whole-heartedly what I have outlined in this study guide, you are sure to pass! GOOD LUCK! YOU CAN DO IT! ϑ Your nutrition friend, -Jonathan Brown, B.S, DTR THE “NO FLUFF” RD/DTR STUDY GUIDE *Updated as of July 2011 The “NO FLUFF” RD/DTR STUDY GUIDE Tips for taking the RD/DTR exam 1. PERIODICALLY CHECK THE CLOCK TO MAKE SURE YOU’RE GOOD ON TIME! If you wish, get a basic digital watch with a timer for...
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...utility vehicle, a sedan, a sports car, or a minivan? Should you get a sunroof or four-wheel drive? How much extra would you pay for a vehicle that will have a high resale value in the future? What are the expected operating expenses for each model—insurance, repairs, gasoline, and so on? Finally, what opportunities will you forgo if you buy a car? How else could you spend your money, either today or in the future? Making decisions about a product with many options is not easy. Before buying a car, for example, you might draw on the experiences of friends and family, read advertisements, visit dealers, and test-drive vehicles. You might also research different models and financing options on the Web, read Consumer Reports, price insurance rates for favorite models, or even visit chat rooms frequented by car buffs. As a consumer, you make choices every day of your life. Besides choosing among automobiles, you must decide what kind of housing to rent or purchase, what food and clothing to buy, how much education to acquire, and so on. Consumer choice provides an excellent example of constrained optimization, one of the key tools discussed in Chapter 1. People have unlimited desires, but limited resources. The theory of consumer choice focuses on how consumers with limited resources choose goods and services. besa44438_ch03.qxd 10/12/04...
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...CPH 601—Spring 2015 Helen Sauer Salmonella—Prevalence and Prevention Strategies Background/History Salmonella is a bacteria commonly found in the intestinal tracts of humans and animals, including reptiles, farm animals, and rodents. In 1885, Dr. Theobald Smith, a Department of Agriculture researcher investigating hog cholera, is the first to identify Salmonella enterica, formerly called Salmonella choleraesui. Dr. Smith worked under Dr. Daniel E. Salmon, who became the bacteria’s namesake.1 There are around 2,500 different serotypes of Salmonella bacteria. Salmonella can be grouped into typhoidal (S. Typhi and S. Paratyphi) and non-typhoidal (including Typhimurium and Enteritidis, the most common serotypes in the United States.2 In the early 20th century, Irish immigrant Mary Mallon was identified as the first asymptomatic carrier of typhoid. Now an infamous public health case study, “Typhoid Mary” infected an estimated 51 people with typhoid fever over the course of her career before being forcibly quarantined by state public health officials. In spring 1985, 168,000 to 197,000 people were sickened with salmonellosis in northern Illinois, comprising the largest outbreak of Salmonella food poisoning in United States history. Investigators determined the cause to be Salmonella typhimurium strain of bacteria associated with the Hillfarm Dairy in Melrose Park, Illinois. 3 Salmonella has also been used as a tool of bioterrorism. In 1984, 751 individuals were deliberately...
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...Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Nutrition plays an important role in the present age of scientific investigation and discovery. Recent studies and discoveries in the field of nutrition have been considered among the greatest scientific achievements because of their far reaching effects on human progress and welfare. Credit is due to those investigators in the field of nutrition who made careful and painstaking studies which have given knowledge on how best to select, combine and prepare food to promote the health and efficiency of the individual The world’s demand for food is becoming greater than ever. The current world population of 8 billion needs new innovations to meet the growing challenges of the poor and hungry world. Over nutrition, obesity, and related diseases characteristic of the developed world, is becoming serious public health problems in countries with widespread food insecurity. Children suffering from under nutrition today could well be afflicted with chronic diseases of development as adults. The economic development that has led to improved food security and better health in some countries needs to be harnessed, while at the same time incentives to avert the adverse health effects of the nutrition transition need to be taken. The potential of novel foods to alleviate under nutrition is becoming more apparent. But they are unlikely to have a role in the prevention of diseases associated with over nutrition in developing countries, which use...
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