Digital publication of the opening lecture by Pr Mathilde Touvier

Mathilde Touvier

The role of nutrition in chronic disease prevention. A public health issue

Over the course of a lifetime, we ingest around 30 tonnes of food and 50 000 liters of beverages. Epidemiological, experimental and clinical studies published over the last fifty years have shed some light on the impact of these foods on our health. Nutrition is now recognized as one of the main modifiable factors involved in determining the most widespread diseases in the industrialized world (obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes). This opening lecture presents the state of the art in nutrition-health relations, as well as current recommendations for the nutritional prevention of chronic diseases.

Touvier M., Rôle de la nutrition dans la prévention des maladies chroniques. Un enjeu de santé publique, Paris, Collège de France, coll. " Leçons inaugurales ",^no 322, 2024.

Mathilde Touvier is Director of Research at Inserm, principal investigator of the NutriNet-Santé cohort and co-creator of the Nutri-Score label. She is visiting professor at the Collège de France on the annual Public Health Chair (2022-2023), created in partnership with the national agency Santé publique France.