Expertise Group Leader Nutrition & Health
What we eat affects our health, whether directly or by influencing our gut bacteria. I believe that a healthy diet can help us add years to our life, but maybe more importantly, also life to our years! We know there is no easy recipe that works for everyone and the effects in healthy people may be small, but can have large consequences in the long run.
For me, one of the challenges in nutrition research is to demonstrate that a particular change in diet can help people stay healthy for longer. Applying controlled stress, in various ways, to participants in a diet intervention study is a new and very relevant approach. At the same time, we want our methods to be as minimally invasive as possible.
After my training as a nutrition scientist and in nutrition epidemiology at Wageningen University, my activities have focused on scientific substantiation of health benefits of foods and food ingredients. If there is a health benefit, it is also important to be allowed to communicate this to consumers. Therefore, I also focus on the requirements for the use of health claims: combining my experience in designing nutrition trials with knowledge of regulatory issues can help our customers select the most effective approach in building a dossier.
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Publications by Alwine Kardinaal
Kardinaal AF, van Erk MJ, Dutman AE, Stroeve JH, van de Steeg E, Bijlsma S, Kooistra T, van Ommen B, Wopereis S. Quantifying phenotypic flexibility as the response to a high-fat challenge test in different states of metabolic health. The FASEB Journal, 2015; 29 (11): 4600 DOI: 10.1096/fj.14-269852
Kardinaal A, Van der Heijden M, Floris E, Bomhof E. How to modulate gastric digestion for benefits. World of Food Ingredients 2016 (June) 50-52
Pasman W, Wils D, Saniez MH, Kardinaal A. Long-term gastrointestinal tolerance of NUTRIOSE(®)FB in healthy men. Eur J Clin Nutr 2006;60:1024-1034.
Vermunt SHF, Pasman WJ, Schaafsma G, Kardinaal AFM. Effects of sugar intake on body weight: a review. Obesity Rev 2003;4:91-99
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