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… 16 maart 2022 Vici grant for researcher from Maastricht University Zoekresultaten Prof. dr. dr. A.J. Roefs, affiliated with Maastricht University of Maastricht University (UM), has received a Vici grant of €1.5 million from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). … and Obesity: The end of Average Professor Roefs will use the grant to investigate how predictors of overweight differ across people, and if the effectiveness of an intensive lifestyle intervention -on the short and longer term—depends on individual profiles including person characteristics, biological, psychological, environmental, and behavioral variables. Moreover, she will investigate how these profiles translate to behavior in daily life. Using an app, questions about (un)healthy eating behavior and physical activity, and variables that can affect these behaviors (e.g., stress) are asked multiple times per day. Roefs will test if daily …
… 26 november 2019 Zoekresultaten Anne's extra mile in health: Training your mind for sustainable weight loss The “Eat-Lab” –officially the Research Group Eating Disorders & Obesity – which is headed by Anne, conducts different kinds of research into behaviour and psychological processes in relation to abnormal … by an app and by online support, the control group without these extra tools. After 6 weeks, both groups had lost a similar amount of weight. The people who had been supported by the app, however, had significantly improved their ‘psychological eating profile’. They were, for example, less susceptible to external stimuli like ads on TV and to emotion-driven eating. The great thing is that effects were still measurable after one year. Anne’s initial research has clearly shown that there is a …
… 23 juni 2022 Zoekresultaten Rachel Barros Custódio’s affinity with fairness and justice started early when she looked around her Portuguese hometown of Lisbon and saw the mistreatment of animals. “A lot of people in Portugal treat their animals like things, sometimes even worse. They don’t view them as living creatures with feelings”. During her bachelor’s …