Marcos Dominguez Viera, PhD candidate at Wageningen University & Research
Marcos enjoys communicating and connecting with people interested in how to experience a healthy lifestyle considering internal and external aspects. He currently does research that mixes economics and psychology insights to promote healthier diets. Marcos is creating his PhD project in the Development Economics Group at Wageningen University and Research. He is keen on mirroring his professional goals with his personal life, by enjoying nutritious meals with family and friends, as well as by doing triathlon competitions around the world.
Do we have an opportunity to redesign our feeding practices? Background Early facts have shown that the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is associated and might be exacerbated under conditions of obesity and its comorbidities, another pandemic that we have been facing already for years 1. To date, the former affects nearly…
Last summer, I coordinated a project with the aim of assessing the willingness to pay for healthy packaged bread, in lower-income communities of the Mexico City area. In this blog, along with sharing the main results of our first research output, I will mainly describe qualitative findings and personal opinions…