Nynke van der Laan

Selfregulation people

 

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Research

Nynke van der Laan (1984) studied Nutrition & Health at Wageningen University and graduated in 2009 with the specializations 'Nutrition in Health and Disease' and 'Nutritional and Public Health Epidemiology'. The topic of her BSc-thesis was the difference in satiating effect between solid and liquid foods. For the specialization 'Nutrition in Health and Disease', she finished a MSc-thesis on the association between parental child-feeding strategies and the vegetable intake and preference of school -aged children. Another MSc-thesis was finished for the specialization 'Epidemiology and Health', this study was on the association between early (breast - and complementary) feeding and the development of atopic eczema in children.
Since February 2009 she works as PhD-student at the Image Sciences Institute on the 'Onbewust gezonder' ('Hidden Health') project, a cooperation with FrieslandCampina and the university of Twente. Her task is to validate biomarkers (fMRI, eye-tracking, skin conductance, reaction times and heart beat rate) that reflect the reward value, or predict the purchase of a healthy food product. By means of these biomarkers, the effect of different (unconscious) cues (like packaging, place on the shelve in the supermarket, etc) on the reward value of the product can be evaluated.

Publications

Zeinstra, F.F., Koelen, M.A., Kok, F.J., van der Laan, N., de Graaf, C. (in press). Parental child-feeding strategies in relation to Dutch children's fruit and vegetable intake. Public Health Nutrition.