About the Authors
- Juan Carlos Caro
-
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Dept. of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Shu Wen Ng
-
Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Carolina Population Center and Dept. of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Ricardo Bonilla
-
Roles Writing – original draft
Affiliation Centro de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia
- Jorge Tovar
-
Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Facultad de Economía-CEDE, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
- Barry M. Popkin
-
Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: popkin@unc.edu
Affiliation Carolina Population Center and Dept. of Nutrition, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
JCC, JT, RB, and SWN have not consulted with or been a part of any conflicting relationship with any food or beverage company. BMP has been a co-investigator of one random controlled trial funded by Nestle's Water USA(2007-10) but has never consulted for them and presented a paper on SSB global trends in a symposium at the British Nutrition Society (2011) sponsored by Danone Waters. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.