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Article History

Received: 5 June 2015

Revised: 20 March 2016

Accepted: 27 March 2016

First Online: 13 April 2016

Compliance with ethical standards

: Informed written consent from each participant was obtained in accordance with the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki guidelines for human subjects. In the case of minors under the age of 16 years, written consent was also obtained by parents or legal guardians. The current study was reviewed and approved by the Research Ethics Boards of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) (protocol no. 05/04E) and The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (protocol no. 2004219-01H).

: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

: Data were collected as part of the Healthy Eating, Aerobic, and Resistance Training for Youth (HEARTY) trial (Clinicaltrials.gov Registration: NCT00195858), which was supported by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (grant number MCT-71979).

: No financial relationships relevant to this article to disclose.