About the Authors

Matthew R. Smith

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew R. Smith, Renata Micha, Samuel S. Myers

msmith@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliation Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Renata Micha

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew R. Smith, Renata Micha, Samuel S. Myers

Affiliations Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Christopher D. Golden

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Center for Health and the Global Environment, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Dariush Mozaffarian

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

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

Samuel S. Myers

Contributed equally to this work with: Matthew R. Smith, Renata Micha, Samuel S. Myers

Affiliations Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following competing interests: Dr. Mozaffarian reports ad hoc honoraria or consulting from Bunge, Haas Avocado Board, Nutrition Impact, Amarin, Astra Zeneca, Boston Heart Diagnostics, GOED, and Life Sciences Research Organization; and scientific advisory boards, Unilever North America and Elysium Health. we confirm that Dr. Mozaffarian’s competing interests do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All other authors have declared no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MRS RM CDG DM SSM. Performed the experiments: MRS RM SSM. Analyzed the data: MRS SSM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MRS RM SSM. Wrote the paper: MRS RM CDG DM SSM.