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PRESS RELEASE - For the first time, the gut microbiota has been shown to play a pivotal role in the risk of disordered eating behaviour stemming from yo-yo dieting. Researchers from INRAE, CNRS, the University of Rennes and the Université Bourgogne Europe conducted a preclinical study showing that repeated dieting leads to binge-eating behaviour, which can be passed on directly by the microbiota. The results were published in Advanced Science.| INRAE Institutionnel
The food we eat occupies a central place in our lives and affects our health. Even though major advances have been made over the last decades, malnutrition is still a global problem. It can result from such factors as famine, nutrient deficiencies, excessive body mass, and obesity. If we wish to deal with food and health challenges, it is important to understand our dietary choices, our dietary regimes, the composition of the foods we eat, and inequalities in our access to food. At INRAE, our...| INRAE Institutionnel
Fires, droughts, heat waves, cold snaps, extreme precipitation, coastal erosion, avalanches, and melting glaciers—climate change are intensifying all these phenomena. Because it affects the entire world, climate change is exacerbating current threats to the environment, biodiversity, and society; it is also creating entirely new risks. INRAE is focused on understanding how the climate is shifting, including towards more frequent and intense extreme weather events (e.g., heat waves, cold sna...| INRAE Institutionnel
We are facing major global challenges—climate change, the rapid depletion of natural resources, the degradation of ecosystems, and the significant loss of biodiversity—at the same time as urbanisation and the human population are growing. This combination of circumstances is forcing us to find new ways to produce and consume goods that respect the planet's limited resources. The bioeconomy, which is based on biological resources (e.g., animals, plants, micro-organisms, and residual biomas...| INRAE Institutionnel
Habitat modifications, depletion of resources, the introduction of invasive species, pollution, climate change—these are all global threats to biodiversity, which is experiencing a decline without precedent in our modern era. Earth is home to 8 million described plant and animal species; 1 million of those species are facing extinction over the next few decades (source: IPBES). We know that anthropogenic activities, like agriculture, have major impacts on biodiversity. It is therefore impor...| INRAE Institutionnel
Agroecology provides a promising innovative framework for developing solutions to the major global challenges we are facing: food security, climate change, the loss of biodiversity, and the depletion of natural resources. There are several agroecological techniques for ensuring good production levels while also reducing the use of inputs and preserving both soils and water resources. One of these techniques is biological control, which limits the prevalence of diseases and pests using their n...| INRAE Institutionnel
