Study changes in eating habits

Interdisciplinary approaches, methods, and ethical issues

by Nicolas Darcel (editorial coordination), Aurélie Maurice (editorial coordination)
Collection: Synthèses
december 2025
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Summary

With the emergence of concepts such as risky behavior and food sustainability, eating habits and how they're changing have become crucial issues for health and the environment. Since the beginning of the XXI(sup)st(/sup) century, food education programs and consumer information initiatives have multiplied in France. However, assessing their real effects remains difficult, as changes in eating habits result from multiple factors that are hard to measure. It is precisely to better address this complexity that the Interdisciplinary Research Collective on Changes in Eating Behaviors (Circca) is proposing new areas of research, combining contributions from the experimental sciences, digital sciences, and the humanities and social sciences: neuroscience, cognitive psychology, sociology, nutritional epidemiology, experimental economics, behavioral modeling, and more.
This book engages in methodological reflection aimed at understanding changes in eating behaviors in a multidimensional way, through the presentation of various research projects, some of which are interdisciplinary. It is intended for students and researchers interested in issues related to eating behaviors, regardless of their discipline.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Towards greater interdisciplinarity in the study of eating behaviors

Nicolas Darcel et Aurélie Maurice
List of references

Part 1. DISCIPLINES AND FIELDS OF STUDY

Chapter 1 Neuroscience

Simon Benoit, Olga Davidenko
Introduction
How can eating behaviors be studied in a neuroscience laboratory?
Research methods in the neuroscience of eating behaviors
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 2 Cognitive Psychology

Stéphanie Chambaron
Introduction
Cognitive processes and food choices
Different methods for studying eating behaviors
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 3 Sociology

Aurélie Maurice, Marie Plessz, Faustine Régnier
Introduction
Understanding dietary changes: the role of social differences
Studying changes in dietary practices through biographical approaches
Studying changes in dietary practices using quantitative methods: cohorts
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 4 Nutritional Epidemiology

Benjamin Allès, Alice Bellicha, Anouk Reuzé, Caroline Méjean
Introduction
Methods for collecting data on eating behaviors
Methods for assessing changes in eating behaviors
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 5 Experimental Economics

Sabrina Teyssier
Introduction
The experimental protocol
Methodological principles
Different types of measures
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 6 Consumer Sciences

Marine Masson, Nawel Fellah-Dehiri
Introduction
Importance of consumer sciences
Study tools
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 7 Information and Communication Sciences

Clémentine Hugol-Gential
Introduction
The circularity (and complexity) of discourse on food
The meaning of the traces left behind by food
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 8 Behavioral Modeling

David Blumenthal, Nicolas Darcel, Paolo Viappiani
Introduction
Contributions of cognitive science to the modeling of mental processes
Contributions of digital sciences and artificial intelligence
Conclusion
List of references

Part 2. RESEARCH FROM A DISCIPLINARY FIELD

Chapter 9 Education for sustainable development for responsible consumption

Nawel Fellah-Dehiri, Pascale Ezan, Marine Masson
Introduction
Education for sustainable development in schools, at the heart of the guidelines
Methodology
Results
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 10 Nutrition and aging in France: the sociological contribution of the Gazel cohort

Marie Plessz, Séverine Gojard, Marie Zins
Introduction
Nutrition and aging
Gazel, a prospective epidemiological cohort
From food to vegetable consumption
An increase in vegetable consumption with age
Biographical events and dietary changes
Results confirmed across the entire diet
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 11 In search of public action relays: analysis of the creation and implementation of the PNNS logo

Camille Boubal
Introduction
The negotiated origin of the PNNS logo
The challenges of implementation
Competitions between labels
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 12 Food trajectories and dynamics of change

Camille Adamiec, Faustine Régnier, Caroline Ringard, Frédérique Thomas
Introduction
Understanding changes in eating habits through a sociological approach
What changes, and for whom?
Understanding differences: the contribution of sociology
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 13 Public Discourse and Consumer Representations

Stéphanie Chambaron, Julianna Melendrez-Ruiz, Gaëlle Arvisenet, Clémentine Hugol-Gential
Introduction
Understanding barriers to consumption in order to better communicate the benefits
Measuring changes in eating behavior: a multidisciplinary approach
Conclusion
List of references

Part 3. INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH

Chapter 14 Changes in the nutritional situation in Martinique

Zoé Colombet, Michel Simioni, Caroline Méjean
Introduction
Changes in nutritional status and consumption in Martinique between 2003 and 2013
The determinants of the Caribbean nutritional transition
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 15 Factors influencing food choices in university catering

Patrick Taillandier, Nicolas Darcel
Introduction
Methods
Results
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 16 Identifying food messages aimed at children

Rallou Thomopoulos, Nicolas Darcel, Aurélie Maurice
Introduction
Methodology
Results
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 17 Dissemination of food messages and children's social relationships at school

Noémi Berlin, Nicolas Darcel, Nathalie Pernelle, Céline Rouveirol, Guillaume Santini, Sabrine Teyssier, Rallou Thomopoulos, Carole Treibich, Aurélie Maurice
Introduction
Theoretical framework, objectives, and assumptions
Methodology developed in Ermes
Conclusion
List of references

Part 4. RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF FOOD AND SOCIETAL ISSUES

Chapter 18 Participatory approaches in the field of dietary behavior change

Alice Bellicha, Nicolas Darcel, Aurélie Maurice
Introduction
NutriNet-Health: a long-term epidemiological study in participatory science
First experiment in transferring the ARDI method to the field of food education
Conclusion
List of references

Chapter 19 Research in health nutrition: what biological knowledge underpins messages encouraging changes in eating habits?

Isabelle Denis
Introduction
Research and methods in health nutrition
Expectations in health nutrition
Are the most robust messages the most anticipated/heard?
Conclusion
List of contents

Chapter 20 Individual behaviors as targets of food policies: a perspective from the sociology of public action

Camille Boubal, Bastien Soutjis
Introduction
Individual responsibility at the heart of food policies
Public action under influence?
Public actors who are not destitute
Conclusion
List of references

Conclusion

Nicolas Darcel et Aurélie Maurice
List of abbreviations and acronyms used
List of authors

Press

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Features

Language(s): French

Publisher: Éditions Quae

Edition: 1st edition

Collection: Synthèses

Published: 4 december 2025

Reference Book: 03024

Reference eBook [PDF]: 03024NUM

Reference eBook [ePub]: 03024EPB

EAN13 Book: 9782759240685

EAN13 eBook [PDF]: 9782759240692

EAN13 eBook [ePub]: 9782759240708

DOI eBook [PDF] : 10.35690/978-2-7592-4069-2

Interior: Black & white

Format (in mm) Book: 160 x 240

Pages count Book: 204

Pages count eBook [PDF]: 204

Weight (in grammes): 460

Size: 44.8 MB (PDF), 2.08 MB (ePub)

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