About the Authors

Mikkel Z. Ankarfeldt

mikkelza@gmail.com

Affiliations Institute of Preventive Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, The Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Lars Ängquist

Affiliation Institute of Preventive Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, The Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark

Tanja Stocks

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases, Genetic Epidemiology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, Department of Surgical and Perioperative Sciences, Urology and Andrology, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden

Marianne U. Jakobsen

Affiliation Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Kim Overvad

Affiliation Section for Epidemiology, Department of Public Health, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

Jytte Halkjær

Affiliation Danish Cancer Society, Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Wim H. M. Saris

Affiliation NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism, University of Maastricht, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Arne Astrup

Affiliation Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports, NEXS, Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark

Thorkild I. A. Sørensen

Affiliations Institute of Preventive Medicine, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg Hospital, The Capital Region, Copenhagen, Denmark, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Centre for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Competing Interests

WHMS is part time employee of DSM (the Netherlands), is member of the advisory board of FHI in Ireland and INRA France and medical advisor of Nutrition et Sante (Belgium), and has recently received research grants from Novo Nordisk and the Dutch Dairy foundation. None of these grants have supported the present study. AA is currently member of external scientific advisory boards for Global Dairy Platform and MacDonald’s (both USA); AA is member of McDonald’s Global Advisory Council in nutrition and health. The role is to critically review the company’s research and development plans in the area, and provide new insight with the nutrition area. AA is PI of research projects funded by Global Dairy Platform, the Danish Dairy Research Foundation and by Arla Foods A/S, Denmark. AA has received a sponsorship of congress attendance, and a honorarium for speaking at an industry-sponsored satellite symposia from National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, USA and Danone Inc, Europe. MZA, LÄ, TS, MUJ, KO, JH, TIAS have no conflicts of interest. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TIAS MZA LÄ. Analyzed the data: MZA LÄ TIAS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KO JH WHMS AA. Wrote the paper: MZA LÄ TS MUJ KO JH WHMS AA TIAS. Drafted the manuscript: MZA.