About the Authors

Solomon A. Sowah

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

solomon.Sowah@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk (SAS); nita.Forouhi@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk (NGF)

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Fumiaki Imamura

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Daniel B. Ibsen

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Steno Diabetes Center Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark,, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, Department of Nutrition, Sports and Exercise, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

Pablo Monsivais

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington, United States of America

Nicholas J. Wareham

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Nita G. Forouhi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

solomon.Sowah@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk (SAS); nita.Forouhi@mrc-epid.cam.ac.uk (NGF)

Affiliation Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Authors declare support from the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, and Independent Research Fund Denmark for the submitted work. FI is an Academic Editor on PLOS Medicine's editorial board. NGF is a member (non-paid commissioner) of the EAT-Lancet Commission on food for human health and planetary sustainability, and has been reimbursed for travel expenses to meetings of this Commission but has not received any honorarium or other payments.