# The HabEat project. Determining factors and critical periods in food habit formation and breaking in early childhood: a multidisciplinary approach

Sophie Nicklaus, Sylvie Issanchou

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Sophie Nicklaus, Sylvie Issanchou. The HabEat project. Determining factors and critical periods in food habit formation and breaking in early childhood: a multidisciplinary approach. Seminar of the Joint Programming Initiative, Jun 2012, Den Haag, Pays-Bas. 4 p. hal-01539467

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The HabEat project

Determining factors and critical periods in food
**Habit formation and breaking in Early childhood:**
**a multidisciplinary approach**

Dr Sophie Nicklaus* & Dr Sylvie Issanchou

INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique)

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INRA

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Habeat

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# Aims

* Understand better

- how eating habits are formed

- how eating habits can also be changed

in infants and young children (< 6 years)

* Identify critical periods

* Identify critical factors

* Explore key learning mechanisms

* Explore new strategies for breaking habits

* HabEat brings together 11 partners from 6 European countries

* Started January 2010 ; will end on December 2013
# Structure of the HabEat project

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# Future actions

* Continue

- Secondary analyses of data from existing cohorts

- Adaptation of new tools developed in HabEat to other cultures

- Collaborative projects with HabEat partners

* FP7 VIVA (U. Leeds)

* FP7 SATIN (U. Liverpool)

* FP7 ENERGY (VU Medical center)

* FP7 TOYBOX (Harokopio University)

* ANR Blanc International – ANR-FCT: KIDCONUT (INRA, subm)

* ANR Social determinants of health : SOFI (INSERM, subm)

* INRA Did'IT ‘métaprogramme’: SWEETLIP-KID (INRA, subm)

* FP7 NovaBrain (INRA, in prep)