Publications by authors named "Myriam Carrere"
In France, the horsemeat market has been declining for about 50 years and has become a specialized market. Our study aims to understand this decline with regard to the drivers and practices of consumers and non-consumers of this meat, in order to estimate the potential for this market development. To study horsemeat consumption, we analyze two sets of data: two large-scale surveys carried out on the French general population, and one ad-hoc survey focusing more specifically on the representations of horses and horsemeat.
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- A cross-sectional study aimed to identify the motivations behind non-vegetarians reducing meat consumption and increasing legume intake in a large cohort of 25,393 French participants, mostly women around 55 years old.
- The study focused on various change-inducing motives such as health, taste, and environmental concerns, finding that health and nutrition were the strongest drivers for reducing meat while taste preferences influenced legume consumption.
- Results indicated a correlation between specific motives and individual characteristics, revealing that people motivated by health and nutrition were more likely to change their eating habits.
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- * The trial included three groups: obese adolescents with and without vitamin D supplementation and a control group of normal-weight teens, finding high vitamin D insufficiency in the obese group compared to controls.
- * After 12 weeks, while vitamin D levels increased in both obese groups, improvements in intima-media thickness (IMT) were observed in the obese group receiving supplementation, although carotid compliance showed no significant change.
Background And Aim: Childhood obesity is associated with vitamin D (VD) deficiency and vascular dysfunction. Considering evidence indicates that VD may improve vascular function, this study, for the first time, assessed the effect of VD supplementation on microvascular reactivity in obese adolescents (OA).
Methods And Results: This randomized controlled trial included 26 OA, receiving fruit juice with (n = 13) or without VD (4000 IU/d; n = 13) over a 3-month lifestyle program, as well as 23 normal-weight adolescents (controls).