About the Authors

Allana G. LeBlanc

alleblanc@cheo.on.ca

Affiliations Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Peter T. Katzmarzyk

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, United States of America

Tiago V. Barreira

Affiliations Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, United States of America, University of Syracuse, Syracuse, United States of America

Stephanie T. Broyles

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, United States of America

Jean-Philippe Chaput

Affiliations Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Timothy S. Church

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, United States of America

Mikael Fogelholm

Affiliation University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

Deirdre M. Harrington

Affiliation University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

Gang Hu

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, United States of America

Rebecca Kuriyan

Affiliation St. Johns Research Institute, Bangalore, India

Anura Kurpad

Affiliation St. Johns Research Institute, Bangalore, India

Estelle V. Lambert

Affiliation University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Carol Maher

Affiliation School of Health Sciences / Sansom Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

José Maia

Affiliation Faculdade de Desporto, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

Victor Matsudo

Affiliation Centro de Estudos do Laboratório de Aptidão Física de São Caetano do Sul (CELAFISCS), Sao Paulo, Brazil

Timothy Olds

Affiliation School of Health Sciences / Sansom Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia

Vincent Onywera

Affiliation Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya

Olga L. Sarmiento

Affiliation School of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, Colombia

Martyn Standage

Affiliation University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom

Catrine Tudor-Locke

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, United States of America

Pei Zhao

Affiliation Tianjin Women’s and Children’s Health Center, Tianjin, China

Mark S. Tremblay

Affiliation Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

ISCOLE Research Group

Members of the ISCOLE Research Group are presented in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

ISCOLE was funded by The Coca-Cola Company. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AGL MST PTK JPC STB. Analyzed the data: AGL STB MST PTK. Wrote the paper: AGL PTK TVB STB JPC TSC MF DMH GH RK AK EVL CM JM VM TO VO OLS MS CTL PZ MST.