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About
LIESBETH SMIT is an enthusiastic science researcher who is very interested in the effects of nutrition on health.
Her mission is to find the truth and share this with the world.
Liesbeth uses her scientific background in public health to translate difficult information to simple transparent messages that anyone can understand.
Her writing and websites show her passion for different media to communicate health messages to the general public.
CAREER
Liesbeth has established herself in nutrition science while doing research at Harvard School of Public Health and VU University Amsterdam. She has published six scientific articles, mainly on (trans) fats.
She loves to dive into difficult sources of information, extract the most important message, and translate this into simple words so everyone can understand.
To make sure that science is translated to the general public, she has written more than 40 columns about nutrition, and taught herself to create websites from scratch which show her passion for honest nutrition information, cycling culture, nutrition news and much more.
Her goal is to improve people's health by designing creative health messages
PUBLICATIONS:
Smit LA, Katan MB, Wanders AJ, Basu S, Brouwer IA. A High Intake of trans Fatty Acids Has Little Effect on Markers of Inflammation and Oxidative Stress in Humans. Journal of Nutrition July 2011.
Smit, L.A., Mozaffarian, D., Willett, W. Review of Fat and Fatty Acid Requirements and Criteria for Developing Dietary Guidelines. Ann. Nutr. Metab. 2009;55:44-55
Liesbeth A Smit, Ana Baylin, and Hannia Campos. Conjugated linoleic acid in adipose tissue and risk of myocardial infarction Am J Clin Nutr. 2010 Jul;92(1):34-40.
Smit LA, Willett WC, Campos H. trans-Fatty Acid Isomers in Adipose Tissue Have Divergent Associations with Adiposity in Humans. Lipids. 2010, Aug;45(8):693-70
Eric L. Ding, Liesbeth A. Smit, Frank B. Hu. The Metabolic Syndrome as a Cluster of Risk Factors: Is the Whole Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts? Arch.Int.Med 2010;170(5):484-485.
Scott R. Bauer, Eric L. Ding and Liesbeth A. Smit. Cocoa Consumption, Cocoa Flavonoids, and Effects on Cardiovascular Risk Factors: An Evidence-Based Review. Current Cardiovascular Risk Reports 2010, 5(2): 120-12.
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