Valérie Broers
Valérie obtained her PhD at UCLouvain, working on the Food4Gut project. She obtained her Bachelor Social Psychology and Master Social and Health Psychology at Utrecht University. Her masterthesis focused on self-regulation failure in the form of bedtime procrastination. Her current project involves both public health and psychological aspects. The Food4Gut is a multidisciplinary project that focuses on the impact of foods rich in a type of special fibers, which will be called 'colic nutrients', targeting the intestinal micro biota. The public health aspect aims to strengthen the behavioural epidemiological database of food behavior in Wallonia. The psychological aspect aims to implement an intervention to increase healthy food choice with the help of nudging.
Keywords: obesity, food choice, nudging, epidemiology, self-regulation