Clayton, David J. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5481-0891
James, Lewis J. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6514-5823
Sale, Craig http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5816-4169
Templeman, Iain http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1684-5943
Betts, James A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9129-5777
Varley, Ian http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3607-8921
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research
Article History
Received: 13 August 2019
Accepted: 17 January 2020
First Online: 3 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: LJJ has received funding for research from and/or acted as a consultant for Decathlon SA, the Collagen Research Institute, PepsiCo, Inc., Volac International Ltd, British Summer Fruits, Lucozade Ribena Suntory and Progressive Sports Technologies. LJJ has also received funding to attend conferences from GSSI and Danone Nutricia. In all cases, no personal payments were received by LJJ. CS has received research funding or support from the following sources in relation to bone health research: UK Ministry of Defence, GlaxoSmithKline, PepsiCo, English Institute of Sport and the Dairy Council. JAB has received research funding from BBSRC, GlaxoSmithKline, Lucozade Ribena Suntory, Kellogg’s, Nestlé and PepsiCo and is a scientific advisor to the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI). All other authors have no conflict of interest.
: Participants gave full written consent prior to their inclusion in the study. The study was approved by the Loughborough University Ethics Approvals (Human Participants) Sub-Committee (Ref no: R13-P149) and has, therefore, been conducted in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. The research trial was registered at ExternalRef removed as NCT02696772.