The question often raised is whether a healthy and sustainable diet is more expensive.

Higher adherence to a more plant-based, less animal-based diet was associated with less adiposity over time.

Dr. Nathalie De Cock studied how the reinforcing value of fruit can be increased for adolescents and therefore, how rewarding desirable behaviour can lead to behavioural change.

Dr. Karayiannis concluded that Mediterranean dietary patterns rich in fruit, vegetables, legumes, nuts and whole grains are associated with better measures of sperm quality.

The objective of Sarah's thesis was to evaluate which methods can help patients with cardiovascular disease to encourage to eat a more plant-based diet.

Dr. Lai concluded that the type of fruit is not important but the total amount of fruit intake; a wide variety of different types of fruit and an overall healthy and active lifestyle is recommended

Dr. Ellen Struijk, received the first Alpro Foundation Award for her paper "Dietary patterns in relation to disease burden expressed in Disability-Adjusted Life Years" in Am J Clin Nutr (2014)

Gwenaëlle Magis developed a nutrition information leaflet for breast cancer patients.