Nicole Darmon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5469015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Darmon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Darmon |
| SIGNATURE | DARMON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Inserm |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6625-4466 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Intervention Mapping: A Framework to Co‐Design the Alapage Programme to Simultaneously Improve Dietary Diversity and Physical Fitness Among Older People
BACKGROUND: The design process of public health promotion programmes is rarely described in detail. This study aims to present the co-design process and theoretical rationale of a diet- and physical activity-promoting programme called ALAPAGE, targeting community-dwelling adults aged 60 years and older in southeastern France. METHODS: The six steps of the Intervention Mapping (IM) framework applied to the ALAPAGE programme were as follows: 1. Nee…
Relative environmental impacts and monetary cost of food categories: Functional unit matters
The aim of this study was to explore how the choice of a functional unit (FU) influences the environmental and economic rankings of food categories. For each adult in the latest French national dietary survey ( n = 2121), we built a dataset providing the energy and nutritional content, environmental impacts (14 metrics) and monetary cost of 20 food categories as consumed. The cost and environmental impacts of each food category were expressed for…
To me, it's just natural to be in the garden”: A multi-site investigation of new community gardener motivation using Self-Determination Theory
We compare interviews with 30 new community gardeners in Denver, Colorado and Montpellier, France, using Self-determination theory, a general theory of motivation, to determine how new community gardeners may or may not have felt motivated based on psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Relatedness as a motivational feature carried through the interview data at both sites. Participants’ success or failure to relate to other…
The cost of eating more sustainable diets: A nutritional and environmental diet optimisation study
We aim to identify the dietary changes to improve nutrition and reduce diet-related greenhouse gas emission (GHGE) simultaneously in Brazil, taking into account the heterogeneity in food habits and prices across the country. Food consumption and prices were obtained from two nationwide surveys ( n = 55,970 households and 34,003 individuals). Linear programming models were performed to design optimised diets most resembling the observed diets, and…
Demographic and socio-economic shifts partly explain the Martinican nutrition transition: An analysis of 10-year health and dietary changes (2003–2013) using decomposition models
Objective: The Caribbean has seen a dramatic shift in the obesity and chronic disease prevalence over the past decades, suggesting a nutrition transition. Simultaneously, Martinique has faced a demographic transition marked by significant population ageing. We aimed to differentiate the contribution of changes in health status and dietary intakes due to shifts in demographic and socio-economic characteristics (DSEC) from that due to unobserved fa…
Industrially processed v . home-prepared dishes: What economic benefit for the consumer
Our findings suggest that industrially processed dishes are more profitable to consumers when the cost of time for preparing dishes at home is valued. Given the ever greater demands of everyday life, more account should be taken of the additional cost to consumers of the time they spend preparing meals at home
Improving lifestyles sustainability through community gardening: Results and lessons learnt from the JArDinS quasi-experimental study
The study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT03694782 . Date of registration: 3rd October 2018, retrospectively registered
Four Decades of Household Food Purchases: Changes in Inequalities of Nutritional Quality in France, 1971-2010
Caillavet France, Darmon Nicole, Létoile Flavie, Nichele Véronique. Four Decades of Household Food Purchases: Changes in Inequalities of Nutritional Quality in France, 1971-2010. In: Economie et Statistique / Economics and Statistics, n°513, 2019. pp. 69-89
Optimizing School Food Supply: Integrating Environmental, Health, Economic, and Cultural Dimensions of Diet Sustainability with Linear Programming
There is great potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) from public-sector meals. This paper aimed to develop a strategy for reducing GHGE in the Swedish school food supply while ensuring nutritional adequacy, affordability, and cultural acceptability. Amounts, prices and GHGE-values for all foods and drinks supplied to three schools over one year were gathered. The amounts were optimized by linear programming. Four nutritionally ad…
Does participating in community gardens promote sustainable lifestyles in urban settings? Design and protocol of the JArDinS study
The JArDinS study was registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT03694782 . Date of registration: 3rd October 2018, retrospectively registered
Development of the Healthy Purchase Index (HPI): A scoring system to assess the nutritional quality of household food purchases
Objective To develop an index to assess the nutritional quality of household food purchases based on food expenditures only. Design A database of monthly food purchases of a convenience sample of low-income households was used to develop the Healthy Purchase Index (HPI). The HPI is the sum of two sub-scores based on expenditure shares of food categories in total household food expenditure: the purchase diversity sub-score and the purchase quality…
Food choices to meet nutrient recommendations for the adult Brazilian population based on the linear programming approach
Objective To identify optimal food choices that meet nutritional recommendations to reduce prevalence of inadequate nutrient intakes. Design Linear programming was used to obtain an optimized diet with sixty-eight foods with the least difference from the observed population mean dietary intake while meeting a set of nutritional goals that included reduction in the prevalence of inadequate nutrient intakes to ≤20 %. Setting Brazil. Subjects Partic…
Characteristics of French children with excessive free sugar intakes. Which dietary changes are needed to meet nutritional recommendations
Identifying foods with good nutritional quality and price for the Opticourses intervention research project
Objective People on a limited budget want to know the ‘good price’ of foods. Here we report the methodology used to produce an educational tool designed to help recognize foods with good nutritional quality and price, and assess the validity and relevancy of the tool. Design A ‘Good Price Booklet’ presenting a list of foods with good nutritional quality and price was constructed. The validity of the in-booklet prices was assessed by comparing the…
Community gardening in poor neighborhoods in France: A way to re-think food practices
How low can dietary greenhouse gas emissions be reduced without impairing nutritional adequacy, affordability and acceptability of the diet? A modelling study to guide sustainable food choices
Objective To assess the compatibility between reduction of diet-related greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) and nutritional adequacy, acceptability and affordability dimensions of diet sustainability. Design Dietary intake, nutritional composition, GHGE and prices were combined for 402 foods selected among those most consumed by participants of the Individual National Study on Food Consumption. Linear programming was used to model diets with stepwise…
Contribution of food prices and diet cost to socioeconomic disparities in diet quality and health: A systematic review and analysis
Socio-economic characteristics, living conditions and diet quality are associated with food insecurity in France
Objective To assess the prevalence of household food insecurity (FI) in France and to describe its associations with socio-economic factors, health behaviours, diet quality and cost (estimated using mean food prices). Design Cross-sectional nationally representative survey. FI was assessed using an adapted version of the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Insufficiency Indicator; dietary intake was assessed using a 7 d open-ended food record; an…
Which functional unit to identify sustainable foods
Objective In life-cycle assessment, the functional unit defines the unit for calculation of environmental indicators. The objective of the present study was to assess the influence of two functional units, 100 g and 100 kcal (420 kJ), on the associations between three dimensions for identifying sustainable foods, namely environmental impact (via greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE)), nutritional quality (using two distinct nutrient profiling systems) …
Food cost and nutritional quality: In reaction to the paper by Katz and colleagues
International audience
Socioeconomic Patterning of Childhood Overweight Status in Europe
There is growing evidence of social disparities in overweight among European children. This paper examines whether there is an association between socioeconomic inequality and prevalence of child overweight in European countries, and if socioeconomic disparities in child overweight are increasing. We analyse cross-country comparisons of household inequality and child overweight prevalence in Europe and review within-country variations over time o…
Greenhouse gas emissions of self-selected individual diets in France: Changing the diet structure or consuming less
The use of individual diet modelling to optimise individual food choices. A focus on dairy products
Eating at the university canteen. Associations with socioeconomic status and healthier self-reported eating habits in France
Are the lowest-cost healthful food plans culturally and socially acceptable
Objective Nutritious yet inexpensive foods do exist. However, many such foods are rejected by the low-income consumer. Is it because their use violates unspoken social norms? The present study was designed to assess the variety and cost of the lowest-cost market basket of foods that simultaneously met required dietary standards and progressively stricter consumption constraints. Design A mathematical optimisation model was used to develop the low…
Replacing Fats and Sweets With Vegetables and Fruits—A Question of Cost
Objectives. We examined the association between diet quality and estimated diet costs. Methods. Freely chosen diets of 837 French adults were assessed by a dietary history method. Mean national food prices for 57 foods were used to estimate diet costs. Results. Diets high in fat, sugar, and grains were associated with lower diet costs after adjustment for energy intakes, gender, and age. For most levels of energy intake, each additional 100 g of …
Do economic constraints encourage the selection of energy dense diets
Community gardening in poor neighborhoods in France: A way to re-think food practices
Eating at the university canteen. Associations with socioeconomic status and healthier self-reported eating habits in France
The use of individual diet modelling to optimise individual food choices. A focus on dairy products
Dietary inadequacies observed in homeless men visiting an emergency night shelter in Paris
Objective To assess the dietary intake and the nutritional status of homeless men. Setting A night emergency shelter in Paris, France. Design Dietary survey (48-h) including alcohol intake and a questionnaire on age, duration of homelessness, smoking habits. Subjects were also weighed and measured. Subjects Ninety-seven men aged 18–72 years (mean 43.3), of whom 54% were homeless for more than 18 months, 82% were smokers and 53% were regular and/o…
An overview of the health status of migrants in France, in relation to their dietary practices
Objective To review studies on the morbidity, mortality and nutrition of migrant populations in France. Design A systematic search of the bibliographic database Medline, and direct contact with associations and institutions concerned with migrants' health. Results In France, as in other host countries, migrants belong to the lowest socio-economic strata. They have on average better health and lower mortality than the local-born population. Health…
Do economic constraints encourage the selection of energy dense diets
Energy-dense diets are associated with lower diet costs: A community study of French adults
Objective: High consumption of energy-dense foods has been linked to high energy intakes and excess weight gain. This study tested the hypothesis that high energy density of the total diet is associated with lower diet costs. Design: Dietary intakes of 837 French adults, aged 18–76 years, were assessed using a dietary history method. Dietary energy density (MJ kg −1 ) was calculated by dividing total energy by the edible weight of foods consumed.…
Replacing Fats and Sweets With Vegetables and Fruits—A Question of Cost
Objectives. We examined the association between diet quality and estimated diet costs. Methods. Freely chosen diets of 837 French adults were assessed by a dietary history method. Mean national food prices for 57 foods were used to estimate diet costs. Results. Diets high in fat, sugar, and grains were associated with lower diet costs after adjustment for energy intakes, gender, and age. For most levels of energy intake, each additional 100 g of …
The economics of obesity: Dietary energy density and energy cost
Food Choices and Diet Costs: An Economic Analysis
Low-cost diets: More energy, fewer nutrients
Does social class predict diet quality?
Linear programming can help identify practical solutions to improve the nutritional quality of food aid
Objectives To assess the nutritional quality of food aid delivered by food banks in France and to identify practical modifications to improve it. Design National-level data were collected for all food aid distributed by French food banks in 2004, and its nutrient content per 2000 kcal was estimated and compared with French recommendations for adults. Starting with the actual donation and allowing new foods into the food aid donation, linear progr…
Low-cost foods: How do they compare with their brand name equivalents? A French study
Objective Consumers are increasingly relying on low-cost foods, although it is not clear if the nutritional quality of these foods is fully maintained. The aim of the present work was to analyse the relationship between cost and quality within a given food category. Design and setting The relationship was analysed between nutritional quality and cost for 220 food products belonging to seventeen different categories, controlling for package type a…
Are the lowest-cost healthful food plans culturally and socially acceptable
Objective Nutritious yet inexpensive foods do exist. However, many such foods are rejected by the low-income consumer. Is it because their use violates unspoken social norms? The present study was designed to assess the variety and cost of the lowest-cost market basket of foods that simultaneously met required dietary standards and progressively stricter consumption constraints. Design A mathematical optimisation model was used to develop the low…
Eating at the university canteen. Associations with socioeconomic status and healthier self-reported eating habits in France
Socioeconomic Patterning of Childhood Overweight Status in Europe
There is growing evidence of social disparities in overweight among European children. This paper examines whether there is an association between socioeconomic inequality and prevalence of child overweight in European countries, and if socioeconomic disparities in child overweight are increasing. We analyse cross-country comparisons of household inequality and child overweight prevalence in Europe and review within-country variations over time o…
Greenhouse gas emissions of self-selected individual diets in France: Changing the diet structure or consuming less
The use of individual diet modelling to optimise individual food choices. A focus on dairy products
Food cost and nutritional quality: In reaction to the paper by Katz and colleagues
International audience
Contribution of food prices and diet cost to socioeconomic disparities in diet quality and health: A systematic review and analysis
Socio-economic characteristics, living conditions and diet quality are associated with food insecurity in France
Objective To assess the prevalence of household food insecurity (FI) in France and to describe its associations with socio-economic factors, health behaviours, diet quality and cost (estimated using mean food prices). Design Cross-sectional nationally representative survey. FI was assessed using an adapted version of the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Insufficiency Indicator; dietary intake was assessed using a 7 d open-ended food record; an…
Which functional unit to identify sustainable foods
Objective In life-cycle assessment, the functional unit defines the unit for calculation of environmental indicators. The objective of the present study was to assess the influence of two functional units, 100 g and 100 kcal (420 kJ), on the associations between three dimensions for identifying sustainable foods, namely environmental impact (via greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE)), nutritional quality (using two distinct nutrient profiling systems) …
How low can dietary greenhouse gas emissions be reduced without impairing nutritional adequacy, affordability and acceptability of the diet? A modelling study to guide sustainable food choices
Objective To assess the compatibility between reduction of diet-related greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) and nutritional adequacy, acceptability and affordability dimensions of diet sustainability. Design Dietary intake, nutritional composition, GHGE and prices were combined for 402 foods selected among those most consumed by participants of the Individual National Study on Food Consumption. Linear programming was used to model diets with stepwise…
Identifying foods with good nutritional quality and price for the Opticourses intervention research project
Objective People on a limited budget want to know the ‘good price’ of foods. Here we report the methodology used to produce an educational tool designed to help recognize foods with good nutritional quality and price, and assess the validity and relevancy of the tool. Design A ‘Good Price Booklet’ presenting a list of foods with good nutritional quality and price was constructed. The validity of the in-booklet prices was assessed by comparing the…
Community gardening in poor neighborhoods in France: A way to re-think food practices
Food choices to meet nutrient recommendations for the adult Brazilian population based on the linear programming approach
Objective To identify optimal food choices that meet nutritional recommendations to reduce prevalence of inadequate nutrient intakes. Design Linear programming was used to obtain an optimized diet with sixty-eight foods with the least difference from the observed population mean dietary intake while meeting a set of nutritional goals that included reduction in the prevalence of inadequate nutrient intakes to ≤20 %. Setting Brazil. Subjects Partic…
Characteristics of French children with excessive free sugar intakes. Which dietary changes are needed to meet nutritional recommendations
Medicine (26 works) · Environmental health (25 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (21 works) · Biology (19 works) · Nutritional Studies and Diet (18 works) · Food Science (16 works) · Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (12 works) · Economics (12 works) · Population (11 works) · Mathematics (9 works)