Sustainability of diets : lectures from the NutriNet-Santé study

Abstract

Food systems are priority levers for resolving nutritional, health and environmental issues. Using an epidemiological approach, the Nutritional Epidemiology Research Team has developed the multidisciplinary BioNutriNet project (biology, toxicology, economics, epidemiology, agronomy), which aims to characterize the sustainability of the more or less organic diets of participants in the NutriNet-Santé cohort study. This project has built up a large database of over 30, ,000 individuals, which can now be used to answer many questions on the links between diet, environment and health, taking into account individual profiles. Descriptive, etiological and optimization work is being carried out to propose action levers for public health purposes, and to provide quantified and documented elements for public policies (Ministry of Ecological Transition, ADEME, etc.).

Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot

Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot (Director of Research at INRAE) was originally an agricultural engineer at Agroparistech, and is now a nutrition epidemiologist attached to EREN (Équipe de Recherche en Épidémiologie Nutritionnelle (EREN), Inserm U1153 /Inrae 1125/Cnam/Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Centre de recherche en épidémiologie et biostatistique Sorbonne Paris Cité).
She is developing research into the links between agriculture, food, the environment and health, using individual data from cohorts, as well as the implementation of optimization models. She is co-investigator of the NutriNet-Santé study and teaches nutritional epidemiology at Sorbonne Paris Nord University (masters in human nutrition and public health).