Liesbeth Smit is a nutritionist currently working as junior researcher at VU University Amsterdam, where she is getting her PhD.

To prevent people from getting chronic disease Liesbeth's career is focused on promoting a healthy lifestyle and translating nutrition science to the public. She taught herself HTML & CSS to be able to develop and design websites that promote a healthy lifestyle (see webportfolio). She is also building a database of food and health pictures and can often be found on the street where she investigates the food culture.

Read more about what foods help prevent chronic disease at Liesbeth's Honest and Healthy website that gives scientifically sound information about health (unbiased by the food industry, based on sound science).

For her resume, go to career

Publications:

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 AJCN 2010.

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.Med2010;170(5):484-485.

Opinion piece for the Harvard Community Resource: Putting Harvard's best wheel forward