consumption
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One study, covering Ethiopia, saw a significant drop in food consumption among households that took the loans.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Multiple cohort studies also show that regular tea consumption can lower the risk of all-cause mortality, CVDs, and certain cancers.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
That will come as some comfort to Beijing as it looks to shift the country's drivers of growth away from manufacturing and towards domestic consumption.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
His messages on Sunday night that he would stop Netanyahu may have been meant for Tehran's consumption to distance Washington from Israel's strikes.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
By shortening the intestines and decreasing their energy consumption, cooking inadvertently opened the way to the jumbo brains of Neanderthals and Sapiens.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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