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As part of our promoting a 'healthy lifestyle' for us all, we will be looking at the dynamics influencing lifestyle changes in favour of migrant people living in Amsterdam. When people come here from overseas, they bring along with them everything about their culture, habits, knowledge and more. Having settled and lived for some years in their new environment, they are now being confronted with the need to review and adapt their lifestyle in order to arrest the raging epidemic of obesity and overweight. In this programme we will be answering questions like: which are the main driving influences for a lifestyle-change in the migrant community? What is the role of poverty, ignorance, working multiple jobs, etc. and the lack of proper skills in making necessary lifestyle changes? Our guests will be these public health professionals Saskia van Veen (Public health Researcher, VU), Farida de Ramdanie (LEFF-coach), Vianca Felix (UV intern) and Tenyll Codfried (UV intern).