Prof. Jacob Seidell Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Prof. Seidell is Head of the Institute for Health Sciences and Head of the Department of Nutrition and Health at the Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences at Free University and the Department of Internal Medicine of the VU Medical Center in Amsterdam. Jaap received both his MSc and PhD... read morein Human Nutrition from Wageningen University. He is currently editor-in-chief of the "European Journal of Clinical Nutrition". His main research interest is the role of life-style factors in the prevention of chronic diseases, in particular the study of causes and consequences of obesity and body fat distribution.