About the Authors

Stella K. Muthuri

smuthuri@aphrc.org

Affiliation African Population and Health Research Center, P.O. Box 10787–00100, Nairobi, Kenya

Vincent O. Onywera

Affiliations Department of Recreation Management and Exercise Science, Kenyatta University, P. O. Box 43844, Nairobi, 00100, Kenya, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L1, Canada

Mark S. Tremblay

Affiliations Department of Recreation Management and Exercise Science, Kenyatta University, P. O. Box 43844, Nairobi, 00100, Kenya, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L1, Canada

Stephanie T. Broyles

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808–4124, United States of America

Jean-Philippe Chaput

Affiliation Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, 401 Smyth Road, Ottawa, ON K1H 8L1, Canada

Mikael Fogelholm

Affiliation Department of Food and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki, P. O. Box 3, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

Gang Hu

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808–4124, United States of America

Rebecca Kuriyan

Affiliation St. Johns Research Institute, 100 Feet Rd, John Nagar, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560034, Bangalore, India

Anura Kurpad

Affiliation St. Johns Research Institute, 100 Feet Rd, John Nagar, Koramangala, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560034, Bangalore, India

Estelle V. Lambert

Affiliation Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Anzio Road, Cape Town, 7935, South Africa

Carol Maher

Affiliation Alliance for Research in Exercise Nutrition and Activity (ARENA), School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia

José Maia

Affiliation CIFI2D, Faculdade de Desporto, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Plácido Costa, 91–4200.450, Porto, Portugal

Victor Matsudo

Affiliation Centro de Estudos do Laboratório de Aptidão Física de São Caetano do Sul (CELAFISCS), R. Heloísa Pamplona, 269—Fundação, São Caetano do Sul—Sao Paulo, 09520–320, Brazil

Timothy Olds

Affiliation Alliance for Research in Exercise Nutrition and Activity (ARENA), School of Health Sciences, University of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5001, Australia

Olga L. Sarmiento

Affiliation School of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, Carrera Primera 18A-12, Bogotá, Colombia

Martyn Standage

Affiliation Department for Health, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, United Kingdom

Catrine Tudor-Locke

Affiliations Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 30 Eastman Lane, Amherst, MA 01003–9258, United States of America, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808–4124, United States of America

Pei Zhao

Affiliation Tianjin Women’s and Children’s Health Center, 96 Guizhou Road, Heping, Tianjin, China

Timothy S. Church

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808–4124, United States of America

Peter T. Katzmarzyk

Affiliation Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808–4124, United States of America

ISCOLE Research Group

Complete membership of the ISCOLE Research Group can be found in the acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

ISCOLE was funded by The Coca-Cola Company. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: SKM VOO MST STB JPC MF GH RK AK EVL CM JM VM TO OLS MS CTL PZ TSC PTK. Performed the experiments: SKM VOO MST. Analyzed the data: SKM STB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: PTK. Wrote the paper: SKM PTK. Reviewed and approved the manuscript: SKM VOO MST STB JPC MF GH RK AK EVL CM JM VM TO OLS MS CTL PZ TSC PTK.