David Thivel

David Thivel has a doctorate in exercise physiology and human nutrition (INRAE ​​and Blaise Pascal University, France).

He also completed two post-doctoral fellowships at the New York Nutrition Obesity Research Center (Columbia University, USA) and the Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group (Ottawa, Canada).

David’s main areas of research are metabolic, energetic and nutritional adaptations to daily activities and dietary and exercise-induced energy deficits, particularly in childhood obesity.

David is currently director of the AME2P research laboratory (University of Clermont Auvergne) and president of the European Group on Childhood Obesity.

Long considered as two independent sides and levels of our energy balance, physical activity and energy intake keep dialoging and interacting, impacting the control of our overall energy homeostasis and health.

The present talk will try to propose an overview of the effect of physical exercise, energy expenditure and energy metabolism on human appetite control, energy intake and food reward. The behavioral but also physiological, neuro-physiological and cognitive pathways involved will be discussed in order to better understand how and why our daily movement behaviors can affect of eating habits and intakes.