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Competing interests
In the last 12 months, Dr. Allison has received personal payments or promises for same from for-profit organizations including: Biofortis; California Walnut Commission; Fish & Richardson, P.C.; IKEA; Medpace; Gelesis; Law Offices of Ronald Marron; Sage Publishing; Tomasik, Kotin & Kasserman LLC; Nestle; WW (formerly Weight Watchers International, LLC). Dr. Allison has been an unpaid member of the International Life Sciences Institute North America Board of Trustees. In the last 12 months, Dr. Brown has received personal payments or paid travel from: American Society for Nutrition; Indiana University; Kentuckiana Health Collaborative; and Rippe Lifestyle Institute, Inc. Indiana University has received funds to support the work of these authors collectively from: Alliance for Potato Research and Education; Mead-Johnson; American Federation for Aging Research; Dairy Management, Inc.; Herbalife; Laura and John Arnold Foundation; NIH; National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, Oxford University Press; Sloan Foundation; and University of Alabama at Birmingham.