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
Peruchet-Noray, L., Dimou, N., Cordova, R., Fontvieille, E., Jansana, A., Gan, Q., Breeur, M., Baurecht, H., Bohmann, P., Konzok, J., Stein, M. J., Dahm, C. C., Zilhão, N. R., Mellemkjær, L., Tjønneland, A., Kaaks, R., Katzke, V., Inan-Eroglu, E., Schulze, M. B. ... Carreras-Torres, R. (2025). Nature or nurture: genetic and environmental predictors of adiposity gain in adults. EBioMedicine, 111, Article 105510. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2024.105510
Jäger, S., Kuxhaus, O., Prada, M., Huybrechts, I., Tong, T. Y. N., Forouhi, N. G., Razquin, C., Corella, D., Martinez-Gonzalez, M. A., Dahm, C. C., Ibsen, D. B., Tjønneland, A., Halkjær, J., Marques, C., Cadeau, C., Ren, X., Katzke, V., Bendinelli, B., Agnoli, C. ... Schulze, M. B. (2025). Nut consumption, linoleic and α-linolenic acid intakes, and genetics: how fatty acid desaturase 1 impacts plasma fatty acids and type 2 diabetes risk in EPIC-InterAct and PREDIMED studies. BMC Medicine, 23(1), Article 344. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04187-8
Dall, M., Herzog, K., Hufnagel, A., Ibsen, D. B., Lebiecka-Johansen, B., Ruppert, P. M. M., Preston, J. M., Toh, P. J. Y. & Yfanti, C. (2025). Our future, we decide: five ways to reform the scientific publication process. Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 21(1), 5-6. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41574-024-01056-x
Guo, P., Luo, J., Zhang, J., Bonde, J. P., Struciński, P., Ohniev, V., Arah, O. A., Deziel, N. C., Warren, J. L., Toft, G. & Liew, Z. (2025). Paternal and Maternal Exposures to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Child Behavioral Difficulties: A Parental Comparison Study. Environmental Science & Technology, 59(12), 5973-5982. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.4c13040
Grenville, Z. S., Noor, U., Rinaldi, S., Gunter, M. J., Ferrari, P., Agnoli, C., Amiano, P., Catalano, A., Chirlaque, M. D., Christakoudi, S., Guevara, M., Johansson, M., Kaaks, R., Katzke, V., Masala, G., Olsen, A., Papier, K., Sánchez, M.-J., Schulze, M. B. ... Travis, R. C. (2025). Perturbations in the blood metabolome up to a decade before prostate cancer diagnosis in 4387 matched case-control sets from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition. International Journal of Cancer, 156(5), 943-952. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.35208
Langmann, F., Prioux, C., Touvier, M., Kesse-Guyot, E., Fezeu, L. K., Baudry, J., Dahm, C. C. & Allès, B. (2025). Plant-based diets, legumes, and prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors in the NutriNet-Santé cohort. European Journal of Nutrition, 64(5), Article 193. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-025-03722-w
Guasch-Ferré, M., Wittenbecher, C., Palmnäs, M., Ben-Yacov, O., Blaak, E. E., Dahm, C. C., Fall, T., Heitmann, B. L., Licht, T. R., Löf, M., Loos, R., Patel, C. J., Quarta, C., Redman, L. M., Segal, E., Segata, N., Snyder, M., Sun, Q., Tobias, D. K. ... Merino, J. (2025). Precision nutrition for cardiometabolic diseases. Nature Medicine, 31(5), 1444-1453. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-025-03669-9
