FoodLab
- Main investigator:
- Area:
- Health sciences
- Area of specialization:
- City and Community, Digital health
- Affiliation center:
- Faculties
- Collaborates with:
- e-Health Center
- ODS:
- Sustainable models, sustainability
- Eating patterns and behaviours
- Nutrition, food and culture
- Health promotion
- Public health
- Health and society
The Interdisciplinary research group on Food, nutrition, society and health (FoodLab) focuses its interdisciplinary research on the evolution of dietary patterns and their relationship with society and health, thus linking with nutrition, disease prevention and food culture.
The aspects to which particular attention are paid are the following:
- Programmes promoting healthy eating and physical activity, particularly the use of eHealth and the ICTs to empower people to change habits to prevent and address chronic diseases, especially overweight. In addition, to provide tools to health professionals for incorporating nutrition and eHealth applications, and to study nutrition applied to sport for both performance and health.
- Analysis of dietary transformations from a sociocultural perspective and application of qualitative methodologies.
- Scientific communication on diet-nutrition, health and society.
Furthermore, particular attention is paid to the Mediterranean diet: biodiversity, sustainability, food culture and healthy food supply.
Analysis of the evolution of eating patterns and behaviours
Nutrition, diet, physical activity and sport
Promotion of physical activity and healthy eating. Nutrition, sport performance and health.
Nutrition and public health by promoting a healthy diet and physical activity
Diet, culture and social transformations
Nutrition to prevent and cope with chronic diseases, particularly with overweight
Diet, culture and social transformations
Gastronomy, health and society. Healthy food
Artificial intelligence (AI) applied to nutrition, metabolism and cardiometabolic, endocrine and women pathologies.