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Une nouvelle plateforme aide les entreprises et les universités à lutter contre l’obésité grâce aux légumineuses

MONTRÉAL, 10 mars 2016 – Pour découvrir de nouvelles façons de promouvoir les légumineuses comme les lentilles et les pois, et lutter contre l’obésité et la dénutrition, la Faculté de gestion Desautels de l’Université McGill a lancé une plateforme qui permet aux entreprises et aux instituts de collaborer afin d’améliorer la valeur nutritive des produits alimentaires.

Published: 10 Mar 2016

New Platform Helps Companies and Universities Tackle Obesity through Pulses

MONTREAL, Mar. 10, 2016 – To discover new ways of promoting pulses like lentils and peas to tackle obesity and undernutrition, the Desautels Faculty of Management at Ď㽶ĘÓƵ has launched a platform that enables companies and institutes to work together towards improving the nutrition of food products.

Published: 10 Mar 2016

2016: Year of the pulse

Pulses – legumes, beans and peas – are poised to become the food of 2016 thanks to a massive global marketing effort.

Published: 22 Jan 2016

Using food as reinforcer to shape children's non-food behavior: The adverse nutritional effect doubly moderated by reward sensitivity and gender

Authors: Ji Lu, Suhong Xiong, Narendra Arora, Laurette Dubé

Publication: Eating Behaviours

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Published: 1 Oct 2015

Using foods high in sugar, fat as rewards can lead to obesity in children

You’re late getting out the door and your six-year-old isn’t co-operating. You know it isn’t the best parental decision you’ve ever made but you offer him a treat if he agrees to obediently put on his shoes and get into the car. What’s the harm in that?

Published: 29 Sep 2015

Using food as reinforcer to shape children's non-food behavior: The adverse nutritional effect doubly moderated by reward sensitivity and gender

Authors: Lu, J., Xiong, S., Arora, N., and Dubé, L.

Publication: Eating Behaviors

Published: 24 Aug 2015

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 Dubé, L. Publication: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Abstract:

Published: 27 Jul 2015

An Innovative Approach to Addressing Childhood Obesity: A Knowledge-Based Infrastructure for Supporting Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Decision-Making in Quebec, Canada

Authors: Addy, N. A., Shaban-Nejad, A., Buckeridge, D. L., and Dubé, L. Publication: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Abstract:

Published: 27 Jul 2015

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.

Published: 27 Jul 2015

Parental attachment insecurity predicts child and adult high-caloric food consumption

Authors: Faber, A., Dubé, L.

Publication: Journal of Health Psychology

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Published: 3 Jul 2015

Policy insights from the nutritional food market transformation model: The case of obesity prevention

Authors: Struben, J., Chan, D., Dubé, L.

Publication: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, December 2014

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Published: 4 Mar 2015

Convergent innovation for sustainable economic growth and affordable universal health care: Innovating the way we innovate

Authors: Laurette Dubé, Srivardhini Jha, Aida Faber, Jeroen Struben, Ted London, Archisman Mohapatra, Nick Drager, Chris Lannon, P. K. Joshi and John McDermott

Publication: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, December 2014

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Published: 27 Feb 2015

L'épidémie d'obésité: un échec de la médecine?

Depuis 30 ans, les approches médicales et diététiques ont montré leurs limites.

... "Derrière chaque obèse, il y a un individu, et cet individu ne peut être dissocié de l'écosystème dans leque il se trouve.", ajoute Laurette Dubé, professeure à la faculté de Management Desautels et présidente et présidente fondatrice et directrice scientifique du Centre de la convergence en santé et économie de l'Université McGill.

Published: 5 Dec 2014

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 edition of the Conference of Montreal will begin on June 9, 2014, under the theme of “Economy, Governance and Pension“.

Published: 4 Jun 2014

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.

Published: 16 May 2014

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