About the Authors

Ping Wang

e.mariman@maastrichtuniversity.nl

Affiliation Department of Human Biology, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Claus Holst

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Malene R. Andersen

Affiliation Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Copenhagen University Hospital, Gentofte, Denmark

Arne Astrup

Affiliation Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Freek G. Bouwman

Affiliation Department of Human Biology, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Sanne van Otterdijk

Affiliation Department of Human Biology, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Will K. W. H. Wodzig

Affiliation Department of Clinical Chemistry, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Marleen A. van Baak

Affiliation Department of Human Biology, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Thomas M. Larsen

Affiliation Department of Human Nutrition, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Susan A. Jebb

Affiliation Elsie Widdowson Laboratory, MRC Human Nutrition Research, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Anthony Kafatos

Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, Preventive Medicine & Nutrition Clinic, University of Crete, Crete, Greece

Andreas F. H. Pfeiffer

Affiliations Department of Clinical Nutrition, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Nuthetal, Germany, Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, Charité Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany

J. Alfredo Martinez

Affiliation Department of Physiology and Nutrition, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

Teodora Handjieva-Darlenska

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Metabolic Diseases, National Multiprofile Transport Hospital, Sofia, Bulgaria

Marie Kunesova

Affiliation Obesity Management Centre, Institute of Endocrinology, Prague, Czech Republic

Wim H. M. Saris

Affiliation Department of Human Biology, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Edwin C. M. Mariman

Affiliation Department of Human Biology, NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ECMM PW AA WHMS. Performed the experiments: PW FGB SvO WKWHW MRA. Analyzed the data: PW CH. Wrote the paper: PW ECMM. Clinical investigation and intervention: MvB TML SAJ AFHP JAM TH-D AK MK.