Une nouvelle plateforme aide les entreprises et les universit茅s 脿 lutter contre l鈥檕b茅sit茅 gr芒ce aux l茅gumineuses
MONTR脡AL, 10聽mars聽2016 鈥� Pour d茅couvrir de nouvelles fa莽ons de promouvoir les l茅gumineuses comme les lentilles et les pois, et lutter contre l鈥檕b茅sit茅 et la d茅nutrition, la Facult茅 de gestion Desautels de l鈥橴niversit茅 UU直播 a lanc茅 une plateforme qui permet aux entreprises et aux instituts de collaborer afin d鈥檃m茅liorer la valeur nutritive des produits alimentaires.
New Platform Helps Companies and Universities Tackle Obesity through Pulses
MONTREAL, Mar. 10, 2016 鈥� To discover new ways of promoting pulses like lentils and peas to tackle obesity and undernutrition, the Desautels Faculty of Management at UU直播 has launched a platform that enables companies and institutes to work together towards improving the nutrition of food products.
2016: Year of the pulse
Pulses 鈥� legumes, beans and peas 鈥� are poised to become the food of 2016 thanks to a massive global marketing effort.
Using food as reinforcer to shape children's non-food behavior: The adverse nutritional effect doubly moderated by reward sensitivity and gender
Authors:聽Ji Lu,聽Suhong Xiong,聽Narendra Arora,聽Laurette Dub茅
Publication: Eating Behaviours
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Purpose
Using foods high in sugar, fat as rewards can lead to obesity in children
You鈥檙e late getting out the door and your six-year-old isn鈥檛 co-operating. You know it isn鈥檛 the best parental decision you鈥檝e ever made but you offer him a treat if he agrees to obediently put on his shoes and get into the car. What鈥檚 the harm in that?
Using food as reinforcer to shape children's non-food behavior: The adverse nutritional effect doubly moderated by reward sensitivity and gender
Authors:聽Lu, J., Xiong, S., Arora, N., and Dub茅, L.
Publication:聽Eating Behaviors
Whole-of-society approach for public health policymaking: a case study of polycentric governance from Quebec, Canada
Authors: Addy, N. A., Poirier, A., Blouin, C., Drager, N. and Dub茅, L. Publication: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Abstract:
An Innovative Approach to Addressing Childhood Obesity: A Knowledge-Based Infrastructure for Supporting Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Decision-Making in Quebec, Canada
Authors:聽Addy, N. A., Shaban-Nejad, A., Buckeridge, D. L., and Dub茅, L. Publication:聽International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Abstract:
Civil Society appeals to policymakers to declare malnutrition as a medical emergency
Almost eight million children in India are severely malnourished and have nine times higher risk of death compared to normal children. These children deserve to live. In January 2015 over 100 organisations and individuals collectively urged the government to take action and save the lives of children with Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) through the Generation Nutrition Campaign.
Parental attachment insecurity predicts child and adult high-caloric food consumption
Authors:聽Faber, A.,聽Dub茅, L.
Publication:聽Journal of Health Psychology
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Policy insights from the nutritional food market transformation model: The case of obesity prevention
Authors:聽Struben, J.,聽Chan, D.,聽Dub茅, L.
Publication:聽Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, December 2014
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Convergent innovation for sustainable economic growth and affordable universal health care: Innovating the way we innovate
Authors:聽Laurette Dub茅,聽Srivardhini Jha,聽Aida Faber,聽Jeroen Struben,聽Ted London,聽Archisman Mohapatra,聽Nick Drager,聽Chris Lannon,聽P.聽K. Joshi聽and聽John McDermott
Publication:聽Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, December 2014
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L'茅pid茅mie d'ob茅sit茅: un 茅chec de la m茅decine?
Depuis 30 ans, les approches m茅dicales et di茅t茅tiques ont montr茅 leurs limites.
... "Derri猫re chaque ob猫se, il y a un individu, et cet individu ne peut 锚tre dissoci茅 de l'茅cosyst猫me dans leque il se trouve.", ajoute Laurette Dub茅, professeure 脿 la facult茅 de Management Desautels et pr茅sidente et pr茅sidente fondatrice et directrice scientifique du Centre de la convergence en sant茅 et 茅conomie de l'Universit茅 UU直播.
Christine Lagarde, Joe Oliver, Christian Noyer, Lawrence H. Summers, Jean-Claude Trichet, Philippe Couillard and Several other Political and Economic Leaders to Open the 20th Conference of Montreal
Organized by the International Economic Forum of the Americas, the 20th聽edition of the Conference of聽Montreal聽will begin on聽June 9, 2014, under the theme of 鈥�Economy, Governance and Pension鈥�.
Farm to Family (and, Hopefully, Health and Wealth)
When you think about efforts to improve global health, your mind is likely to turn to medical interventions: vaccines, health worker training, supplies, health infrastructure improvements and the like. But ensuring the health and well-being for low-income and vulnerable communities throughout the world often requires much more.
