Columns by Ralph


Protein-enriched products: useful or a scam?
Several times in the past week I was alerted to an item on a broadcast of EVA (Jinek) about protein-enriched

Holism versus reductionism
In my studies at Wageningen University, I learned how to do scientific research and how to conduct scientific


When are you a good lifestyle coach?
This is a question I have asked myself very often over the past decades as a nutrition coach, but also as a teacher

Vegetable oils versus saturated fat
Late last week, I read a piece by Pointer Checkt about vegetable oils. There are many influencers worldwide who claim

Unhealthy supermarket products
Can you leave it to the supermarkets themselves to make the range healthier?

Hormonal replacement therapy
Hormonal replacement therapy and the use of (bio-identical) hormones just before and after menopause is becoming increasingly well known in the Netherlands and
Mifegyne; weekly contraceptive pill without hormones?
This week I was made aware by a Trainer Hormone Factor of a new contraceptive that is in a testing phase, namely Mifegyne