About the Authors

Mark S. Pearce

mark.pearce@ncl.ac.uk

Affiliation Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Laura Basterfield

Affiliations Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Human Nutrition Research Centre, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Kay D. Mann

Affiliation Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Kathryn N. Parkinson

Affiliations Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Human Nutrition Research Centre, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Ashley J. Adamson

Affiliations Institute of Health & Society, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Human Nutrition Research Centre, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

John J. Reilly on behalf of the Gateshead Millennium Study Core Team

Members of the Gateshead Millennium Study Core Team are listed in the acknowledgments.

Affiliation School of Psychological Sciences and Health, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSP LB AJA JJR. Performed the experiments: LB. Analyzed the data: MSP KDM KNP LB. Wrote the paper: MSP KDM KNP AJA JJR. Core study management: GMSCT.