About the Authors

Irina Kovalskys

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

ikovalskys@gmail.com

Affiliations Nutrition, Health and Wellbeing Area, International Life Science Institute (ILSI-Argentina), Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pontifica Universidad Catolica Argentina Facultad de Medicina, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Attilio Rigotti

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Nutrición, Diabetes y Metabolismo, Centro de Nutrición Molecular y Enfermedades Crónicas, Escuela de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile

Berthold Koletzko

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Division of Metabolic and Nutritional Medicine, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, University of Munich Medical Center, Munich, Germany

Mauro Fisberg

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto Pensi, Fundação Jose Luiz Egydio Setubal, Hospital Infantil Sabara, São Paulo, Brazil, Departamento de Pediatria, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Georgina Gómez

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Bioquímica, Escuela de Medicina, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica

Marianella Herrera-Cuenca

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo, Universidad Central de Venezuela (CENDES-UCV)/Fundación Bengoa, Caracas, Venezuela

Lilia Yadira Cortés Sanabria

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia

Martha Cecilia Yépez García

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Colegio de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Quito, Ecuador

Rossina G. Pareja

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru

Ioná Zalcman Zimberg

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departamento de Psicobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Ana Del Arco

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Departamento de Pediatria, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Luciana Zonis

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Nutrition, Health and Wellbeing Area, International Life Science Institute (ILSI-Argentina), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Agatha Nogueira Previdelli

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software

Affiliation Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade São Judas Tadeu, São Paulo, Brazil

Viviana Guajardo

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nutrition, Health and Wellbeing Area, International Life Science Institute (ILSI-Argentina), Buenos Aires, Argentina

Luis A. Moreno

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Aragón (IIS Aragón), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain, GENUD (Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development) Research Group, Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón (IA2), University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

Regina Fisberg

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departmento de Nutrição, Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

the ELANS Study Group

A full list of the ELANS study group members is available at the end of the article.

Competing Interests

M.F. is speaker in conferences for Abbott, Danone Research, Nestle, EMS and Sanofi; member of the Board of Novo Nordisk and ILSI Brazil; and has been awarded grants for research from Pensi Institute, ILSI Brazil, Danone Research and Danone Institute International. A.R. has received research grant support from Coca-Cola Chile y AB Chile. The ELANS field work was originally supported by a scientific grant from the Coca Cola Company (Atlanta, GA, USA). The initial unrestricted grant from Coca Cola Company supported the design, data collection, field work and initial data analysis. The work of LM is supported in part by Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn) and Project Feel4Diabetes (H2020-HCO-05-2014, contract 643708). I.K., G.G., A.R., L.Y.C.S., M.H.C., M.C.Y.G., R.G.P., V.G., I.Z.Z., A.D.A, L.Z., A.N.P., B.K., and R.F.declare that they have no potential conflicts of interest in relation to the topic of this manuscript. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare.