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Background:
Street Food (SF) consists of out-of-home food consumption and has old, historical roots with complex social-economic and cultural implications. Despite the emergence of modern fast food, traditional SF persists worldwide, but the relationship of SF consumption with overall health, well-being, and obesity is unknown.
Methods:
This is an observational, cross-sectional study. The study was performed in Palermo, the largest town of Sicily, Italy. Two patient cohorts were identified: consumers of SF (n= 687) and conventional restaurant food (RES) consumers (n= 315). Study participants answered a questionnaire concerning their health conditions, nutritional preferences, frequency of consumption of SF and a score relative to SF consumption ranging from 0 to 20 was calculated.
Results:
Body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) was significantly and independently correlated with the score of street food consumption (r= 0,103; p< 0.002). The prevalence of different diseases, including hypertension and type 2 diabetes, and the use of medications did not differ between the two groups. Milza (a sandwich stuffed with thin slice of bovine spleen and lung) consumers had a significantly higher prevalence of hypertension (12.2% vs 6.2% in non consumers; p< 0.005) and in this subgroup the use of anti-hypertensive drugs was inversely correlated with the frequency of milza consumption (r= 0.11; P= 0.010). Conclusions: This study suggests that SF consumption in Palermo is associated with a higher BMI and higher prevalence of hypertension in milza consumers. Further studies should evaluate whether frequent SF consumers have unfavourable metabolic and cardiovascular profile.
They’re creepy, they’re kooky, they’re your favorite Frankengadgets and they’ve invaded the latest issue of Engadget Distro. But fear not, this edition of our fine weekly isn’t all about chopping and screwing the devices you love, we’ve got plenty of other real-life gadgets on hand as well. See that tiny silver sliver on the cover? That’s ASUS’ Zenbook UX31, perhaps the most viable candidate for the Ultrabook throne. It may not be as thin and light, but we’re also bringing you a review of Dell’s lightweight XPS 14z, an ergonomically sound laptop with a sizable asking price. On the mobile front, Myriam Joire says hello and goodbye to Nokia’s N9 MeeGo phone and Zach Honig gets his hands on its brother from another operating system, the Lumia 800. Nokia’s claiming its latest is the “first real Windows Phone,” but Sharif Sakr’s review of the HTC Titan might just prove otherwise. We’ll also bring you a look into Tech News Today host Iyaz Akhtar’s geeky upbringing, our latest installation of In Real Life and an exclusive comic from Ed Piskor. So what are you waiting for? Hop on that iPad or hit the PDF download link below, and soak up all that Distro goodness.
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We’ve seen a lot of game-changing devices this year, haven’t we? 2011 has already witnessed the first Honeycomb tablets, the influx of LTE and the introduction of a boatload of smartphones with dual-core processors. One of those groundbreaking devices was the Motorola Atrix 4G, which we called the best smartphone at CES 2011 because of its powerful Tegra 2 SoC and simply innovative Webtop operating system with an accompanying Lapdock. It was new, and it was powerful.
Not even ten months after the Atrix’s February 22nd launch, we’re already seeing its successor, aptly named the Atrix 2. At the risk of sounding blunt, it’s not a groundbreaking device — aside from a few bumps in specs, larger display and a fresh redesign, it doesn’t offer the same level of showmanship or innovation so eagerly demonstrated in the first iteration. But does the sequel compensate for the lack of sizzle? How much does this improve over the original? Does the newest version of the Lapdock satisfy? We’ll answer these questions and so much more after the break.
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