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Projects - dr.ir. LA (Lydia) Afman

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  EXPLAIN: Exploring plant-based meat analogues for their Impact on health

  Plant based meat analogues are a new food category with many unanswered questions. Do they fit in a healthy diet when they will be consumed more...
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  Me, my diet and I

  Lydia Afman and her multidisciplinary team are building a personalised digital twin to predict the rise in blood sugar (glucose), but especially the...
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  Dietary fibres: their kinetics of fermentation inside the human gut lumen, and its effects on human metabolism in vivo

  Consumption of non-digestible carbohydrates (NDC) has been linked to many health benefits. However, detailed knowledge on the exact fate and impact of...
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  The Belly Fat study - A dietary intervention to improve metabolic health in subjects with abdominal obesity

  Obese people with high levels of abdominal fat (‘belly fat) face increased risks for development of chronic diseases, such as non-alcoholic...
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  FOODBALL: The Food Biomarker Alliance

  Biomarkers covering several foods and food components provide an objective measure of actual intake and status, and are an important and urgently...
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  NutriTech - Application of new technologies and methods in nutrition research the example of phenotypic flexibility

  NutriTech will build on the foundations of traditional human nutrition research using cutting-edge analytical technologies and methods to...