About the Authors
- Irina Kovalskys
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft
* E-mail: 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Departamento de Nutrición y Bioquímica, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
- Martha Cecilia Yépez García
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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
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Instituto de Investigación Nutricional, Lima, Peru
- Ioná Zalcman Zimberg
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Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Departamento de Psicobiologia, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Ana Del Arco
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Roles Writing – original draft
Affiliation Departamento de Pediatria, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- Luciana Zonis
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Roles Writing – original draft
Affiliation Nutrition, Health and Wellbeing Area, International Life Science Institute (ILSI-Argentina), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Agatha Nogueira Previdelli
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software
Affiliation Faculdade de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade São Judas Tadeu, São Paulo, Brazil
- Viviana Guajardo
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Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Nutrition, Health and Wellbeing Area, International Life Science Institute (ILSI-Argentina), Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Luis A. Moreno
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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
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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
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¶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.