About the Authors

Renata Micha

Contributed equally to this work with: Renata Micha, Masha L. Shulkin

Affiliation Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Masha L. Shulkin

Contributed equally to this work with: Renata Micha, Masha L. Shulkin

Affiliations Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, University of Michigan Medical School, Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Jose L. Peñalvo

Affiliation Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shahab Khatibzadeh

Affiliation Brandeis University, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Waltham, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gitanjali M. Singh

Affiliation Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Mayuree Rao

Affiliation The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America

Saman Fahimi

Affiliation Digestive Disease Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

John Powles

Affiliation Cambridge Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Dariush Mozaffarian

dariush.mozaffarian@tufts.edu

Affiliation Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Mozaffarian, Dr. Micha, and Ms Shulkin report grants from NIH/NHLBI and Gates Foundation during the conduct of the study. Dr. Peñalvo report grants from NIH/NHLBI during the conduct of the study. Dr. Singh reports grants from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation during the conduct of the study. Dr. Mozaffarian reports personal fees from Haas Avocado Board, Pollock Communications, Life Sciences Research Organization, Boston Heart Diagnostics, GOED, DSM, Unilever North American, and UpToDate, outside the submitted work. All other authors declare no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: DM RM. Data curation: RM MLS GMS MR DM. Formal analysis: RM MLS JLP SK GMS MR SF JP DM. Funding acquisition: RM DM. Methodology: RM DM. Supervision: RM DM. Writing – original draft: RM MLS DM. Writing – review & editing: RM MLS JLP SK GMS MR SF JP DM.