Martinette T. Streppel is a nutritional epidemiologist and lecturer in Research at the Nutrition and Dietetics program at the HvA. She completed her Nutrition and Dietetics program at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen in 2001. She subsequently studied Nutrition and Health at Wageningen University (completed in 2003). She obtained her PhD in Wageningen (2009) on the effects of smoking, alcohol consumption, and the intake of fatty acids and dietary fiber on mortality from cardiovascular diseases and life expectancy. In doing so, she distinguished between recent and long-term exposure to these factors. Within the Nutrition and Exercise lectorate, she mainly works in the ‘Children’ research line. She is the project leader of the RAAK public project PRESCHOOL@HEALTHYWEIGHT and the related KIEM project Parent Contact Healthy Lifestyle in Childcare. She is also involved in the PROSYST and DIET projects and supports colleagues in processing research data and statistical analyses.