Liesbeth Smit

 

Web

Professional Websites

Vanderbilt Athletic Facility — Web site created for the Harvard Medical School athletic facility

Drinkstudie.nl — Web site created for a study investigating the effects of sugar sweetened beverages on obesity in children from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Web Assistent for The Nutrition Source — a Harvard School of Public Health web site, that informs people with honest and scientific facts about healthy eating and excercise.

Nutrition and Health Websites

HealthyBeverage.org — Prototype of web site to inform the public on healthy beverages.

HonestAndHealthy.com — Web site to inform the public about nutrition and health.

FoodHealthNews.com — Nutrition and health news web site.

Eerlijkgezondlekker.com — Dutch web site to inform the public about nutrition and health.

Nutrition

PhD Research

  • Research into ruminant and industrial fatty acids and cardiovascular disease.
  • 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

Academic

  • Research Assistant for the World Health Organization Global Burden of DiseaseExpert Group on Nutrition and Chronic Diseases.

Health Education

  • The Nutrition Source web site, that informs people with honest and scientific facts about healthy eating and excercise
  • How Sweet Is It? Campaign from the Harvard School of Public Health Nutrition Department
  • Dutch on Bikes, an initiative to show other countries the Dutch bike culture.

Writing

  • Dutch Amerikablog on Ergogenics.org about the differences in American and Dutch food culture.
  • Writer for Food-info.net, an international website initiative to inform the public about nutrition. By Wageningen University.