About the Authors
- Elissa S. Epel
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Contributed equally to this work with: Elissa S. Epel, A. Janet Tomiyama
* E-mail: eepel@lppi.ucsf.edu (ESE); tomiyama@psych.ucla.edu (AJT)
Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, UCSF Center for Obesity Assessment, Study, & Treatment, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- A. Janet Tomiyama
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Contributed equally to this work with: Elissa S. Epel, A. Janet Tomiyama
* E-mail: eepel@lppi.ucsf.edu (ESE); tomiyama@psych.ucla.edu (AJT)
Affiliations UCSF Center for Obesity Assessment, Study, & Treatment, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Department of Psychology, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America
- Ashley E. Mason
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Affiliation UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Barbara A. Laraia
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Affiliations UCSF Center for Obesity Assessment, Study, & Treatment, San Francisco, California, United States of America, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America
- William Hartman
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Affiliation MD Weight Management Program, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Karen Ready
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Affiliation MD Weight Management Program, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Michael Acree
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Affiliation UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Tanja C. Adam
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Affiliation Department of Human Biology, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands
- Sachiko St. Jeor
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Affiliation Division of Endocrinology Nutrition and Metabolism, University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, United States of America
- David Kessler
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
At the time of original submission, WH was working for Weight Management Program of San Francisco, Inc. At the time of original submission, KIR was working for Weight Management Program of San Francisco, Inc. 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: ESE AJT AEM WH KR SS DK. Performed the experiments: AJT AEM WH KR TCA. Analyzed the data: AJT AEM MA. Wrote the paper: AJT ESE AEM BAL.