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Denis Lairon is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Environmental Science, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. A significant portion of their work focuses on Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Ecology, Food Science, Plant Science, and Environmental Engineering.

Their main research topics include Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact, Nutritional Studies and Diet, Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability, Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling, Organic Food and Agriculture, Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet, and Environmental Impact and Sustainability.

Denis Lairon has contributed to several scientific journals, with frequent publications in the British Journal Of Nutrition, European Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, and Scientific Reports.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Updating the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid towards Sustainability: Focus on Environmental Concerns (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Quantifiable urine glyphosate levels detected in 99% of the French population, with higher values in men, in younger people, and in farmers (2022), Environmental Science and Pollution Research
  • Association between adherence to the EAT-Lancet diet and risk of cancer and cardiovascular outcomes in the prospective NutriNet-Santé cohort (2022), American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Greenhouse gas emissions, energy demand and land use associated with omnivorous, pesco-vegetarian, vegetarian, and vegan diets accounting for farming practices (2020), Sustainable Production and Consumption
  • Environmental and nutritional analysis of the EAT-Lancet diet at the individual level: insights from the NutriNet-Santé study (2021), Journal of Cleaner Production

They have also published a book titled Manger sain et durable: De notre assiette à la planète Ed. 1 (2020), released by Editions Quae eBooks.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Denis Lairon include:

  • Julia Baudry
  • Mathilde Touvier
  • Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot
  • Benjamin Allès
  • Serge Herçberg

Best Publications

  • Mediterranean diet pyramid today. Science and cultural updates

    Anna Bach-Faig;Elliot M Berry;Denis Lairon;Joan Reguant

  • Olive oil and health: summary of the II international conference on olive oil and health consensus report, Jaén and Córdoba (Spain) 2008.

    J. López-Miranda;F. Pérez-Jiménez;E. Ros;R. De Caterina

  • Digestion and absorption of 2 fat emulsions with different droplet sizes in the human digestive tract

    Martine Armand;Bérengère Pasquier;Marc André;Patrick Borel

  • Dietary fiber intake and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in French adults.

    Denis Lairon;Nathalie Arnault;Sandrine Bertrais;Richard Planells

  • Nutritional quality and safety of organic food. A review

    Denis Lairon

  • Carotenoids in biological emulsions: solubility, surface-to-core distribution, and release from lipid droplets

    P Borel;P Grolier;M Armand;A Partier

  • Med Diet 4.0: the Mediterranean diet with four sustainable benefits

    S. Dernini;E. M. Berry;L. Serra-Majem;C. La Vecchia

  • Dietary, physiological, genetic and pathological influences on postprandial lipid metabolism.

    José Lopez-Miranda;Christine Williams;Denis Lairon

  • Green tea extract (AR25®) inhibits lipolysis of triglycerides in gastric and duodenal medium in vitro

    Christine Juhel;Martine Armand;Yan Pafumi;Christelle Rosier

  • The Medi-RIVAGE study: reduction of cardiovascular disease risk factors after a 3-mo intervention with a Mediterranean-type diet or a low-fat diet

    Stephanie Vincent-Baudry;Catherine Defoort;Mariette Gerber;Marie-Christine Bernard

  • Physicochemical characteristics of emulsions during fat digestion in human stomach and duodenum

    Martine Armand;P. Borel;B. Pasquier;C. Dubois

  • Effect of Human Milk or Formula on Gastric Function and Fat Digestion in the Premature Infant

    Martine Armand;Margit Hamosh;Nitin R Mehta;Pamela A Angelus

  • Lutein transport by Caco-2 TC-7 cells occurs partly by a facilitated process involving the scavenger receptor class B type I (SR-BI).

    Emmanuelle Reboul;Lydia Abou;Céline Mikail;Odette Ghiringhelli

  • Mediterranean food pattern and the primary prevention of chronic disease: recent developments

    Miguel Angel Martinez-Gonzalez;Maira Bes-Rastrollo;Lluis Serra-Majem;Denis Lairon

  • Effects of graded amounts (0-50 g) of dietary fat on postprandial lipemia and lipoproteins in normolipidemic adults

    C Dubois;G Beaumier;C Juhel;M Armand

  • Adherence to Mediterranean diet reduces the risk of metabolic syndrome: a 6-year prospective study.

    E. Kesse-Guyot;N. Ahluwalia;C. Lassale;S. Hercberg

  • A new look at dietary carbohydrate: chemistry, physiology and health

    J.H. Cummings;M.B. Roberfroid;H. Andersson;C. Barth

  • Updating the Mediterranean Diet Pyramid towards Sustainability: Focus on Environmental Concerns

    Lluís Serra-Majem;Lluís Serra-Majem;Laura Tomaino;Laura Tomaino;Sandro Dernini;Elliot M. Berry

  • Effects of oat bran, rice bran, wheat fiber, and wheat germ on postprandial lipemia in healthy adults.

    L Cara;C Dubois;P Borel;M Armand

  • Milling and Processing of Wheat and other Cereals Affect Their Capacity to Inhibit Pancreatic Lipase in Vitro

    L. Cara;P. Borel;M. Armand;H. Lafont

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Borel
Patrick Borel Aix-Marseille University
Serge Hercberg
Serge Hercberg Paris 13 University
Mathilde Touvier
Mathilde Touvier Paris 13 University
Pilar Galan
Pilar Galan Paris 13 University
Marie Josèphe Amiot
Marie Josèphe Amiot Montpellier SupAgro
Helen M. Roche
Helen M. Roche University College Dublin
Jose Lopez-Miranda
Jose Lopez-Miranda Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Laurent Debrauwer
Laurent Debrauwer Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Robert Verger
Robert Verger Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Lluis Serra-Majem
Lluis Serra-Majem Instituto de Salud Carlos III

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