About the Authors

Adrienne N. Milner

amilner@uab.edu (ANM); dallison@uab.edu (DBA)

Affiliations Department of Sociology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America, Nutrician Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America, Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America, Center for the Study of Community Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America

Brandon J. George

Affiliations Nutrician Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America, Office of Energetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America

David B. Allison

amilner@uab.edu (ANM); dallison@uab.edu (DBA)

Affiliations Nutrician Obesity Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America, Office of Energetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ANM BJG DBA. Analyzed the data: ANM BJG DBA. Wrote the paper: ANM BJG DBA.