Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles
The chair group Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles studies consumption and lifestyles of individuals and groups from an interdisciplinary perspective. The chair group embeds these insights in the design, evaluation and implementation of interventions to enable healthy and sustainable behaviours.
Vision and Mission
People
Research and Projects
The research of the Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles group is focused around three research lines:
Education
Publications
Researchers of the chair group Consumption and Healthy Lifestyles publish on a regular basis in scientific journals, professional journals, scientific and popular books, and proceedings.
Contact
News
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Behavioural expertise key in effective lifestyle policy
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Inauguration Emely de Vet: “To find out what you do not know, you have to be willing to learn from each other”
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One million euro for reducing health inequalities
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Harm Veling will join WUR as personal professor
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Structural monitoring of the Dutch food environment is needed
Press
- Video: Thirza Andriessen about shifting from foodbanks to receiving money for doing groceries yourself: "like a normal person" (Dutch Only) (NOS Journaal, 21 July 2022)
- Video: Emely de Vet about Burger King's decision to make plant-based burgers the normal choice (Dutch only, from 16:50) (RTL nieuws, 21 july 2022)
- Article: Emely de Vet about Burger King's decision to make plant-based burgers the normal choice (Dutch only) (RTL nieuws, 21 july 2022)
- Podcast: Emely de Vet about the rise of the plant-based burger (from 24:25) (BBC, 11 july 2022)
- Podcast: Emely de Vet about the sustainability of the plant-based burger (from 11:00) (BBC, 5 July 2022)
- Monique L’Hoir about investing in underprivileged families (in Dutch only) (NRC, 3 April 2022)
- Rachelle de Vries about remembering the path to high-calorie foods better than low-calorie fruit (in Dutch only) (De Gelderlander, 18 March 2022)
- Funding for studies on improving the health of people in low socioeconomic positions (NWO, 17 March 2022)
- Maartje Poelman talks about supermarket ads that promote unhealthy foods (in Dutch) (NOS Journaal, 4 November 2021)
- Janine Benjamins (PhD student Consumption and Healthy Lifestyle and doctor Society and Health) wins the Flora van Laar Prize 2021 (In Dutch)
- Emely de Vet talks about how to lose the coronavirus kilos (in Dutch) (Meldpunt, 22 May 2020)
- Rachelle de Vries tells we remember high-calorie foods better than low-calorie foods (in Dutch) (Het Parool, 14 October 2021)
- Maartje Poelman talks about far too many temptations: this is how you arm yourself against all those incentives of chocolate, burgers and fries (in Dutch) (AD, 2 November 2021)
- Maartje Poelman (Consumption en Healthy Lifestyles) about corona kilos due to working from home and stress (in Dutch) (EenVandaag TV, 2 November 2020)
- Maartje Poelman (Consumption en Healthy lifestyles) tells about unhealthy eating habits during the lockdown (in Dutch) (EenVandaag radio, 2 November 2020)
Publications
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Suikertaks is géén betutteling: ‘Ongezond eten stimuleren is juist betutteling’
Suikertaks is géén betutteling: ‘Ongezond eten stimuleren is juist betutteling’, AD, 2022-03-30, Tijn Elferink, https://www.ad.nl/koken-en-eten/suikertaks-is-geen-betutteling-ongezond-eten-stimuleren-is-juist-betutteling~a657c96b/ -
Healthcare workers’ acceptability of influenza vaccination nudges: Evaluation of a real-world intervention
Preventive Medicine Reports 29 (2022). - ISSN 2211-3355 -
Wageningse ontdekt: we onthouden de weg naar een vette hap makkelijker dan die naar een stuk fruit
Wageningse ontdekt: we onthouden de weg naar een vette hap makkelijker dan die naar een stuk fruit, AD, 2022-03-18, Elly Molenaar, https://www.ad.nl/wageningen/wageningse-ontdekt-we-onthouden-de-weg-naar-een-vette-hap-makkelijker-dan-die-naar-een-stuk-fruit~a38fc187/