Social Sciences and Humanities 

Eating practices: Social and cultural aspects of hunger and satiety:
Overall aim: Conceptions, understandings and everyday practices with respect to bodily signals and sensations related to appetite, hunger, satiety, and eating are analysed in different population groups, defined according to social background and physiological parameters.

Lotte Holm, Professor
Gertrud Pfister, Professor
Laila Ottesen, Associate Professor
Thorkild I.A. Sørensen, Professor
Sten Madsbad, Professor

Changing discourses and strategies in the fight against life-style related diseases:
Overall aim: The project will analyse and discuss how the notion of life-style related diseases has developed historically and how it links to strategies to prevent and cure such diseases in order to identify ethical, social and health political dilemmas underlying contemporary attempts to fight life-style diseases. The project will provide a research based input to the public debate and on how to develop preventive health strategies that are efficient, medically responsible, increase equity and respect towards the autonomy of citizens, and thus qualify the basis for future decisions about policies and technologies.

Jesper Lassen, Associate Professor
Peter Sandøe, Professor
Lene Koch, Associate Professor
Signild Vallgårda, Professor

(Un)healthy bodies – health discourses and physical (in)activity among Danish adults: 
Overall aim: Activity patterns in different population groups are identified and analysed in relation to different understandings of health discourses, different sport experiences and attitudes towards physical activity as well as eating practices. 

Gertrud Pfister, Professor
Laila Ottesen, Associate Professor
Lotte Holm, Professor
Thorkild I.A. Sørensen, Professor 

Public and market regulation in the fight against life-style diseases – Opportunities and barriers:
Overall aim: The effect of various regulatory measures on the implementation of public health policies related to life-style diseases are analysed and it is assessed how regulatory measures can best be used to support such public health policies. 

Karsten Ronit, Associate Professor
Mette Hartlev, Professor
Jørgen Dejgård Jensen, Senior Researcher 

Social-Psychological Interventions and Experiments for Effective Life Style Changes:
Overall aim: The effectiveness of social-psychological intervention methods for life style changes is evaluated through randomised clinical trials testing rival and/or combined hypotheses concerning the merit of biological and social interventions. 

Niels Viggo Hansen, Assistant Professor
Bo Jacobsen, Professor
Thomas Mandrup-Poulsen, Professor
Bente Klarlund Pedersen, Professor 
Lars O. Dragsted, Professor
Sten Madsbad, Professor 
Lotte Holm, Professor
Jesper Lassen, Associate Professor