La génomique nutritionnelle : (re)penser les liens alimentation-santé à l'articulation des sciences sociales, biomédicales et de la vie

Fournier, Tristan; Poulain, Jean‐Pierre

doi:10.1051/nss/2017023

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“…Our findings invite further research into a social history focusing on dietary standards in conjunction with the construction of markets for healthy foods and lifestyles. In this respect, recent advances in the domain of nutritional genomics should be closely scrutinised (Fournier and Poulain 2017).…”

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Supplementing food for health: practices amongst French adults aged 60 to 75 years

Lepiller

Cazes-Valette

2018

Rev Agric Food Environ Stud

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The use of food supplements continues to grow in France, even though it is being discouraged by the main health and medical authorities. The ambiguous definitions surrounding these products make it difficult to measure their consumption. Using a qualitative survey based on interviews (n = 31) of consumers aged 60 to 75 years, this paper explores the ways in which this consumption is increasing. It traces the adoption of food supplementation in this age group back to life-course events, relating to health in particular. Using the practice theory, three forms of supplementation are identified according to the norms, products, sources of medical prescription and purposes at play. The first form is dependent on orthodox medical prescription having been taken; the supplements are prescribed by a doctor and considered by the consumer to be almost like medicinal products. The second form is linked to heterodox 'natural' therapies; products are most often based on plants and considered to be traditional remedies. The third form is related to a heterodox micronutritional approach, claiming to be scientifically advanced; products are identified as food supplements, and their consumption reflected a strategy of prevention, or even health optimisation in ageing. The affinities between these supplementation forms and the individuals' social characteristics are discussed. Results suggest that common consumer categories should be better integrated in the measurement of food supplement consumption.

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Supplementing food for health: practices amongst French adults aged 60 to 75 years

Lepiller

Cazes-Valette

2018

Rev Agric Food Environ Stud

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“…2 In relation to food issues, the thematisation approach has been used on several occasions to study how taste and food pleasure have been problematised in French social sciences (Dupuy, 2014; Dupuy & Poulain, 2012; Poulain, 2008, 2009, 2020; Poulain & Corbeau, 2012) and to compare the development of ‘food studies’ in the English-speaking world and ‘sociology of food’ in the French one (Poulain, 2018). It has also been used in the study of obesity (Poulain, 2009) and advances of knowledge in nutrigenomics (Fournier & Poulain, 2017, 2018).…”

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Food in transition: The place of food in the theories of transition

Poulain

2021

The Sociological Review

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Among the different theories used to explain social change, the transition theory holds a special place. It has been applied to subjects such as demography, epidemiology, nutrition, etc. and most often from a multidisciplinary perspective. However, beyond the apparent uniqueness of the transition label there are quite different theoretical frameworks and presuppositions, which can be a source of misunderstanding. A first perspective considers change as the transition from one stable state to another and concentrates on the processes at work in the transition phase. It focuses attention on the interactions between cultural and biological variables and tries to take into account the consequences of the fact that they move at different rates. A second perspective conceives change as a series of stages (more or less stable situations) and proceeds to analyse the structural transformation of the organisation at each stage. The emphasis is placed on the transformations that take place during these stages. This brings us closer to the theory of stages. Finally, a third perspective combines stages and transitions. Change is seen as part of an evolutionary and progressive movement and as being reversible or not. This article studies the cognitive organisation of the different theoretical variants of the transition model in which food plays a more or less important role.

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“…At the same time, it distances itself from the "principle of symmetry" because it does not consider these two types of discourse and understanding (the scientific and the lay) as epistemologically equivalent in their relationship to the proof. This theoretical and analytical framework has notably been mobilized in the context of issues related to the connection of health and nutrition, for example, on obesity (Poulain, 2009), cholesterol (Fournier, 2012), and nutritional genomics (Fournier & Poulain, 2017).…”

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“…The biotechnology refers to nutrigenetic tests that can be either purchased directly through the Internet or provided by health care professionals, and that consist in evaluating the genetic predisposition of an individual to develop food-related diseases that could be mitigated or modulated with personalized dietary interventions. Despite the fact that nutrigenetic testing gives rise to several scientific controversies (Fournier & Poulain, 2017) as well as ethical, legal, and social issues (ELSI) (Castle, Cline, Daar, Tsamis, & Singe, 2007; Ferguson, 2013; Korthals, 2011b), it has been available in the market over the past decade. In parallel with this scientific and commercial development of nutritional genomics, the field of nutritional epigenomics has emerged and has placed emphasis on the effects of the food environment on the genes’ expression and on the potential transmission of this epigenetic information at the intergenerational level.…”

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Eating According to One’s Genes? Exploring the French Public’s Understanding of and Reactions to Personalized Nutrition

Fournier

Poulain

2018

Qual Health Res

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In this article, we analyze qualitatively the understanding of and reactions to personalized nutrition (PN) among the French public. Focus groups were conducted to identify the opinions and discourses about two applications of knowledge from nutritional (epi)genomics: a biotechnology (nutrigenetic testing) and a public awareness campaign (the "first thousand days of life" initiative). Our objective was to understand to what extent PN could lead to changes in eating practices as well as in the representations of food-health relationships within France, a country characterized by a strong commitment to commensality and a certain "nutritional relativism." Although discourses on nutritional genomics testify to a resistance to food medicalization, nutritional epigenomics appears as more performative because it introduces the question of transgenerational transmission, thus parental responsibility.

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La génomique nutritionnelle : (re)penser les liens alimentation-santé à l'articulation des sciences sociales, biomédicales et de la vie

Cited by 33 publications

References 59 publications

Supplementing food for health: practices amongst French adults aged 60 to 75 years

Supplementing food for health: practices amongst French adults aged 60 to 75 years

Food in transition: The place of food in the theories of transition

Eating According to One’s Genes? Exploring the French Public’s Understanding of and Reactions to Personalized Nutrition

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Cited by 33 publications

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Supplementing food for health: practices amongst French adults aged 60 to 75 years

Supplementing food for health: practices amongst French adults aged 60 to 75 years

Food in transition: The place of food in the theories of transition

Eating According to One’s Genes? Exploring the French Public’s Understanding of and Reactions to Personalized Nutrition

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