Komishon, A M
Shishtar, E
Ha, V
Sievenpiper, J L
de Souza, R J
Jovanovski, E
Ho, H V T
Duvnjak, L S
Vuksan, V
Article History
Received: 6 September 2015
Revised: 3 March 2016
Accepted: 14 March 2016
First Online: 14 April 2016
Competing interests
: VV is holder of an American (No. 7,326,404 B2) and Canadian (No. 2,410,556) patent for use of viscous fibre blend in diabetes, metabolic syndrome and cholesterol lowering; currently holds grant support for ginseng research from the Canadian Diabetes Association (CDA), Canada and the National Institute of Horticultural and Herbal Science, RDA, Korea. JLS has received research support from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Calorie Control Council, Coca-Cola Company (investigator initiated, unrestricted grant), Pulse Canada, and the International Tree Nut Council Nutrition Research and Education Foundation. He has received travel funding, speaker fees and/or honoraria from the American Heart Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Society for Nutrition, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, the CDA, the Canadian Nutrition Society, the Calorie Control Council, the Diabetes and Nutrition Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, the International Life Sciences Institute North America, the International Life Sciences Institute, Brazil, the Abbott Laboratories, Pulse Canada, Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Coca-Cola Company. He is on the Clinical Practice Guidelines Expert Committee for Nutrition Therapy of both the CDA and the European Association for the study of diabetes, as well as being on the American Society for Nutrition writing panel for a scientific statement on the metabolic and nutritional effects of fructose, sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup. He is an unpaid scientific advisor for the International Life Science Institute North America, Food, Nutrition and Safety Program. His wife is employed by Unilever Canada. RJdS is funded by a CIHR Postdoctoral Fellowship Award and has received research support from the CIHR, the Calorie Control Council, the Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research and Coca-Cola Company (investigator initiated, unrestricted grant). He has served as an external resource person to the WHO's Nutrition Guidelines Advisory Group and received travel support from WHO to attend group meetings. He is the lead author of two systematic reviews and meta-analyses commissioned by WHO of the relation of saturated fatty acids and trans fatty acids with health outcomes. ES received funding from the Embassy of the State of Kuwait, Kuwait University. VH has received research support from the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) and the CIHR. AK, EJ and SBM have declared no conflict of interest.