There is a limit to how much you can or should do by way of clumsy state control over consumption of fat or any other nutrients that a current fad happens to label as bad.
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As part of its smart-grid activities, aimed at achieving a low-carbon society through efficient energy use, TMC is conducting trials in Japan of its Toyota Smart Center pilot program, which plans to link people, automobiles and homes for integrated control of energy consumption.
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He said the new integrated temperature control system was like a giant television remote control which would allow for very tight control of heat and electricity consumption.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, consumption of smoked tobacco products fell 27 per cent from 2000 to 2011, as taxes increased and smoking bans at bars and restaurants took hold.
Systems of rational control are permeating the networks that define our everyday consumption of technology, whether by smart phones or smart cars.
Subsequent experiments showed that stress played an important role in the loss of self-control across a spectrum of behaviors, including gambling and the consumption of tobacco, alcohol and food.
The second premise, that carbon restrictions are necessary for energy consumption control, belies inherent logic of free market economic incentives to advance conservation economies.
The new software will both automatically reduce battery consumption and give users more control over parts of the phone that are consuming battery.
Workers know logically that they need to save more for retirement, but they struggle to forgo present consumption, owing to lack of self-control, an emotional bias.
Since apartheid ended, alcohol consumption in South Africa seems to have got out of control.
And via the exclusive Eco-Mode application which will be provided with the software upgrade, users to manually shut down any of the Tegra 3's cores for even more control over power consumption and performance.
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While the consumption of sugary drinks contributes to obesity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not name a single largest cause nationally.
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Therefore suppliers, processors, distributors and retailers need to step up their control and visibility across the supply chains, tracking products from raw material to the point of consumption.
At a very fundamental level, to the extent that they can, they should aim to control as much of the value chain as possible, from raw materials and creation through sales and consumption.
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"Core tobacco control measures have long had implications for the poor - most obviously via the use of taxation to reduce consumption, " he wrote in the paper.
It is likely to be some time before the tobacco-control treaty signed on Wednesday begins to show effects on consumption in the developing countries, where many thousands of youngsters take up smoking each day.
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