Consommation

Articles

• Quelles innovations et alternatives existantes ?
  31 janvier 2014, par Clarisse

  Lydia Zepeda - Benjamin Devaux - Noémie Recouvreur - David Erhart - Brian Horihan - Agir sur la consommation alimentaire des ménages est identifié comme un levier majeur pour réduire l’impact de nos systèmes alimentaires sur l’environnement et améliorer la santé des populations. Comment accompagner des changements de pratique vertueux ? Quelle acceptabilité par les consommateurs ?

• Toward a new philosophy of preventive nutrition : from a reductionist to a holistic paradigm to improve nutritional recommendations
  27 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  The reductionist approach has been predominant to date in human nutrition research and has unraveled some of the fundamental mechanisms at the basis of food nutrients (e.g., those that involve deficiency diseases). In Western countries, along with progress in medicine and pharmacology, the reductionist approach helped to increase life expectancy. However, despite 40 y of research in nutrition, epidemics of obesity and diabetes are growing each year worldwide, both in developed and developing countries, leading to a decrease in healthy life years. Yet, interactions between nutrition-health relations cannot be modeled on the basis of a linear cause-effect relation between 1 food compound and 1 physiologic effect but rather from multicausal nonlinear relations. In other words, explaining the whole from the specific by a bottom-up reductionist approach has its limits. A top-down approach becomes necessary to investigate complex issues through a holistic view before addressing any specific question to explain the whole. However, it appears that both approaches are necessary and mutually reinforcing. In this review, Eastern and Western research perspectives are first presented, laying out bases for what could be the consequences of applying a reductionist versus holistic approach to research in nutrition vis-à-vis public health, environmental sustainability, breeding, biodiversity, food science and processing, and physiology for improving nutritional recommendations. Therefore, research that replaces reductionism with a more holistic approach will reveal global and efficient solutions to the problems encountered from the field to the plate. Preventive human nutrition can no longer be considered as “pharmacology” or foods as “drugs.”

• Issues of Trust and Distrust in Eating among Urban Middle Class Youth in India
  6 décembre 2017, par Roxane

  Shagufa Kapadia is a Professor in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies, and Hon. Director of the Women’s Studies Research Center at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, India. Her primary interest is in cultural perspectives in human development with special focus on adolescent and youth development, gender and women’s issues, parenting and socialization, morality, and immigration and acculturation. She has signifi cant international cross - cultural research and teaching experience.

• Convergence and divergence in food consumption ? Culture, Class and Place in Malaysian Urbanscape.
  22 décembre 2017, par Roxane

  Anindita Dasgupta is Associate Professor, and Head of School, School of Liberal Arts & Sciences, at Taylor’s University, Malaysia. She is the Book Review Editor for Millennial Asia : An International Journal of Asian Studies.

• Approche sociologique des néophobies alimentaires chez l’enfant
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  À partir d’une interrogation sur les enfants autistes, leurs singularités alimentaires ainsi que les difficultés et les ajustements pour l’entourage nourricier autour des repas, les auteurs, sociologues, questionnent les évolutions du répertoire alimentaire et plus particulièrement la phase de la néophobie. Ce travail examine la simultanéité et la complémentarité des processus de socialisation et d’individuation dans les évolutions des pratiques alimentaires des enfants. S’interroger en articulant les approches psychologique et sociologique permet d’explorer les soubassements des normes. Et aussi de distinguer la perspective phylogénétique à tendance universalisante de la néophobie de l’enfant dans le cadre de l’ontogénèse.

• L’Amérique Latine à La Table du Chef – une analyse des représentations culinaires de l’Amérique Latine dans les séries Netflix
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  L’étude des marchés concerne à la fois la nourriture, les gens, les cultures et surtout les lieux. Ces derniers sont le théâtre de pratiques urbaines quotidiennes qui expliquent et interprètent les territoires et les composantes sociales qui les animent. Le but de ce travail est d’étudier les dynamiques sociales, culturelles et de genre ainsi que les significations complexes que les espaces alimentaires et physiques assument face à l’expérience quotidienne et à la négociation des relations identitaires.

• Le plaisir sensoriel comme allié d’une alimentation plus saine
  3 février 2017, par Clarisse

  Pierre Chandon, professeur de marketing, directeur du Centre multidisciplinaire des sciences comportementales Sorbonne Universités-INSEAD - Les liens qui unissent plaisir et alimentation sont multiples. Comment le système nerveux analyse-t-il les informations sensorielles ? Le plaisir sensoriel contribue-t-il à une alimentation plus saine ? Comment l’industrie alimentaire développe-t-elle des produits qui parlent à nos sens ? Le plaisir de manger ne vaut-il que s’il est partagé ? Dès lors, comment mieux partager la gastronomie ?

• Ultra-processed products are becoming dominant in the global food system
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  The relationship between the global food system and the worldwide rapid increase of obesity and related diseases is not yet well understood. A reason is that the full impact of industrialized food processing on dietary patterns, including the environments of eating and drinking, remains overlooked and underestimated. Many forms of food processing are beneficial. But what is identified and defined here as ultra-processing, a type of process that has become increasingly dominant, at first in high-income countries, and now in middle-income countries, creates attractive, hyper-palatable, cheap, ready-to-consume food products that are characteristically energy-dense, fatty, sugary or salty and generally obesogenic. In this study, the scale of change in purchase and sales of ultra-processed products is examined and the context and implications are discussed. Data come from 79 high- and middle-income countries, with special attention to Canada and Brazil. Results show that ultra-processed products dominate the food supplies of high-income countries, and that their consumption is now rapidly increasing in middle-income countries. It is proposed here that the main driving force now shaping the global food system is transnational food manufacturing, retailing and fast food service corporations whose businesses are based on very profitable, heavily promoted ultra-processed products, many in snack form.

• Dietary diversity as a household food security indicator
  3 novembre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  Household food security is an important measure of well-being. Although it may not encapsulate all dimensions of poverty, the inability of households to obtain access to enough food for an active, healthy life is surely an important component of their poverty. Accordingly, devising an appropriate measure of food security outcomes is useful in order to identify the food insecure, assess the severity of their food shortfall, characterize the nature of their insecurity (for example, seasonal versus chronic), predict who is most at risk of future hunger, monitor changes in circumstances, and assess the impact of interventions. However, obtaining detailed data on food security status—such as 24- hour recall data on caloric intakes—can be time consuming and expensive and require a high level of technical skill both in data collection and analysis. This paper examines whether an alternative indicator, dietary diversity, defined as the number of unique foods consumed over a given period of time, provides information on household food security. It draws on data from 10 countries (India, the Philippines, Mozambique, Mexico, Bangladesh, Egypt, Mali, Malawi, Ghana, and Kenya) that encompass both poor and middle-income countries, rural and urban sectors, data collected in different seasons, and data on calories acquisition obtained using two different methods. ....[D]ietary diversity would appear to show promise as a means of measuring food security and monitoring changes and impact, particularly when resources available for such measurement are scarce.

• Cuisiner les légumes feuilles –keerai- et soigner les corps : D’une déconsidération des pratiques et dévalorisation des savoirs féminins à leur remobilisation 
  26 octobre 2021, par Mathilde COUDRAY

  La société indienne est traversée d’injonctions contradictoires adressées aux femmes : nécessité de travailler et de valoriser leur rôle de « mère-nourricière » : contraintes des temps versus préservation des savoirs féminins sur les plantes (légumes feuilles) consommables pour leurs bienfaits alimentaires et de soin au corps. Comment penser une agencivité et une « politicité des femmes-mères-soignantes » (Kunin, 2020) dans un contexte de préoccupations conjointes pour les liens alimentation/nature ? Une marge étroite entre assignation et « reclaim » autour des héritages précieux des savoirs de soin.