Diet, lifestyle and genetic susceptibility
Every day, each Dane consumes an average of 3 kilograms of food and fluids, which amounts to a ton each year. Food consumption habits have both health and environmental consequences. In the research group, we study associations between diet, lifestyle and health. The main outcomes we focus on are obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer, both in one generation and across generations in families. Increasingly, we also study the interplay between food consumption, environmental impact, and health.
Research areas
- Applying novel methods to assess associations between diet and health
- Modelled substitution of foods
- Socioeconomic determinants of food and drink habits
- Associations between diet, lifestyle and obesity exposures in one generation, and health outcomes in the next
- Environmentally sustainable foods or dietary habits and health
- The interplay between genetic variation, diet, and health
Recent publications
Publications
Berden, J., Chimera, B., Hanley-Cook, G. T., Cakmak, E. K., Vineis, P., Nicolas, G., Skeie, G., Srour, B., Kesse-Guyot, E., Touvier, M., Baudry, J., Deschasaux-Tanguy, M., Berlivet, J., van der Schouw, Y., Murray, K., Jannasch, F., Tjønneland, A., Kyrø, C., Dahm, C. C. ... Huybrechts, I. (2025). Biodiverse diets present co-benefits for greenhouse gas emissions, land use, mortality rates and nutritional adequacy in Europe. Nature Food. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01214-y
Fontvieille, E., Jansana, A., Peruchet-Noray, L., Córdova, R., Gan, Q., Rinaldi, S., Dossus, L., Mahamat-Saleh, Y., Gunter, M. J., Heath, A., Aune, D., Inan-Eroglu, E., Schulze, M. B., Bock, N., Dahm, C. C., Castro-Espin, C., Sánchez, M.-J., Perez-Cornago, A., Tin, S. T. ... Freisling, H. (2025). Body mass index and breast cancer risk among postmenopausal women with and without cardiometabolic diseases: Findings from two prospective cohort studies in Europe. Cancer, 131(14), Article e35911. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.35911
Matta, K., Viallon, V., Chatziioannou, A. C., Robinot, N., Wedekind, R., Dahm, C. C., Rostgaard-Hansen, A. L., Tjønneland, A., Truong, T., Marques, C., Frenoy, P., Kaaks, R., Fortner, R. T., Schulze, M. B., Sieri, S., Fordellone, M., Tumino, R., Ricceri, F., Braaten, T. ... Ferrari, P. (2025). Can serum metabolic signatures inform on the relationship between healthy lifestyle and colon cancer risk? Cancer & metabolism, 13(1), Article 30. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40170-025-00388-0
Chen, J., Sun, Y., Dan, L., Wellens, J., Yuan, S., Yang, H., Tong, T. Y. N., Cross, A. J., Papadimitriou, N., Meyer, A., Dahm, C. C., Larsson, S. C., Wolk, A., Ludvigsson, J. F., Tsilidis, K., Giovannucci, E., Satsangi, J., Wang, X., Theodoratou, E. ... EPIC Investigators (Anja Olsen, member) (2025). Composition of plant-based diets and the incidence and prognosis of inflammatory bowel disease: a multinational retrospective cohort study. The Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 52, Article 101264. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2025.101264
Torres-Laiton, L., Luján-Barroso, L., Nadal-Zaragoza, N., Castro-Espin, C., Jakszyn, P., Panico, C., Le Cornet, C., Dahm, C. C., Petrova, D., Rodríguez-Palacios, D. Á., Jannasch, F., Masala, G., Dossus, L., Padroni, L., Guevara, M., Schulze, M. B., Fortner, R. T., Tumino, R. & Crous-Bou, M. (2025). Diabetes-Related Dietary Patterns and Endometrial Cancer Risk and Survival in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition Study. Nutrients, 17(10), Article 1645. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17101645
Hanley-Cook, G. T., Deygers, J., Daly, A. J., Berden, J., Remans, R., Termote, C., Ibsen, D. B., Baudry, J., Van Damme, P., Kesse-Guyot, E., Vineis, P., Schulze, M. B., Hoang, K. T., Deschasaux-Tanguy, M., Heath, A., Dahm, C. C., van der Schouw, Y. T., Skeie, G., Guevara, M. ... Lachat, C. (2025). Dietary species richness provides a comparable marker for better nutrition and health across contexts. Nature Food, 6(6), 577-586. Article e5656. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-025-01147-6
Pizzato, M., McCormack, V., Dossus, L., Al-Alem, U., Delpierre, C., Lamy, S., Macciotta, A., Ricceri, F., Mellemkjær, L., Tjønneland, A., Dahm, C. C., Antoniussen, C. S., Guénel, P., Fournier, A., Frenoy, P., Schulze, M. B., Kaaks, R., Fortner, R. T., Ferrari, P. ... Vaccarella, S. (2025). Education level and risk of breast cancer by tumor subtype in the EPIC cohort. International Journal of Cancer, 157(4), 672-686. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.35413
