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NutrInsight • Satiety: From Appetite Sciences to Food Application & New Insights
Appendix: Biographies of the writer and speakers
Pr France Bellisle (writer)
Faculty of Medecine, Laval university, Québec
Centre de Recherche en Nutrition Humaine d’Île de France, université de Paris, Bobigny, France
f.bellisle@uren.smbh.univ-paris13.fr
Following her Bachelor Degree (McGill University, Montreal) and a Master Degree (Concordia University, Montreal) in experimental psychology, France Bellisle worked at the College de France in Paris in the laboratory of Jacques Le Magnen. She obtained Doctorate degrees from the University of Paris. From 1982, she worked in French National Research Institutes (CNRS, INRA). She developed original research in the field of human ingestive behaviours. Her research interests cover all types of determinants of food and fluid intake in human consumers, including psychological, sensory and metabolic factors as well as environmental influences. She has published over 200 articles (original data and reviews) in international peer-reviewed journals and contributed to several books. She participates in editorial boards of many French and international scientific journals.
Pr John E. Blundell
Director of the Institute of Psychological Sciences, university of Leeds, uk
j.e.blundell@leeds.ac.uk
John Blundell holds the Research Chair of Psychobiology and is the founder Director of the Institute of Psychological Sciences. He has been involved in numerous scientific Committees. He has published widely on biological and psychological mechanisms of appetite control, satiety claims, energy balance and the relationship between physical activity, food intake and obesity.
Dr Sophie Vinoy
Nutrition Research group Leader, Mondele- z International R&D, France
sophie.vinoy@mdlz.com
Sophie Vinoy obtained her PhD from the French Paris University of life science and health on human physiology. After a stage in adaptive physiology, she joined the nutrition research department of Danone and took the lead of the metabolism team. She moved to the global nutrition department of Kraft Foods/Mondele- z International as nutrition research group leader. She and her team launched several international research programs in collaboration with academic teams. She is strongly involved in the European International Life Science Institute through 3 taskforces on eating behaviour, metabolic syndrome and carbohydrates. Her primary interest is the impact of postprandial metabolism on disease prevention involving low grade inflammation and satiety.
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