About the Authors

Lisa Wood

lisa.wood@uwa.edu.au

Affiliation School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Karen Martin

Affiliation School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Hayley Christian

Affiliation Centre for Built Environment and Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia, and Telethon Kids Institute, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Andrea Nathan

Affiliation School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Queensland, Australia

Claire Lauritsen

Affiliation School of Population Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Steve Houghton

Affiliation Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

Ichiro Kawachi

Affiliation Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sandra McCune

Affiliation WALTHAM Centre for Pet Nutrition, Leicestershire, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

(1) SM is an employee (Research Manager) of the funder WALTHAM® Centre for Pet Nutrition, a division of Mars Petcare. The funder had no influence on results reported. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LW KM HC AN CL SH. Performed the experiments: LW HC AN CL. Analyzed the data: LW KM AN CL SH IK. Wrote the paper: LW KM HC AN CL SH IK SM.