Carayol, Jérôme http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0049-0244
Chabert, Christian
Di Cara, Alessandro
Armenise, Claudia
Lefebvre, Gregory
Langin, Dominique http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2669-7825
Viguerie, Nathalie
Metairon, Sylviane
Saris, Wim H. M.
Astrup, Arne http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8968-8996
Descombes, Patrick http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1274-247X
Valsesia, Armand
Hager, Jörg
Article History
Received: 7 February 2017
Accepted: 10 November 2017
First Online: 12 December 2017
Competing interests
: J.C., A.V., G.L., C.C., S.M., P.D., and J.H. are full-time employees at Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences SA. C.A. and A.D.C. are full-time employees at Quartz Bio SA. W.H.M.S. is medical consultant for N&S and is an unpaid scientific advisor for the International Life Science Institute, ILSI Europe. W.H.M.S. reports having received research support from several food companies such as Nestlé, DSM, Unilever, Nutrition et Santé and Danone as well as Pharmaceutical companies such as GSK, Novartis and Novo Nordisk. A.A. reports grants and personal fees from Global Dairy Platform, USA; McCain Foods, USA; McDonald’s, USA; Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc, USA; Basic Research, USA; Dutch Beer Knowledge Institute, NL; Gelesis, USA; Novo Nordisk, DK; Orexigen Therapeutics Inc., USA; S-Biotek, DK, Twinlab, USA; Vivus Inc., USA; and grants from Arla Foods, DK; Danish Dairy Research Council, Nordea Foundation, DK outside the submitted work; and Royalties received for the book first published in Danish as “Verdens Bedste Kur” (Politiken, Copenhagen), and subsequently published in Dutch as “Het beste dieet ter wereld” (Kosmos Uitgevers, Utrecht/Antwerpen), in Spanish as “Plan DIOGenes para el control del peso. La dieta personalizada inteligente” (Editorial Evergráficas, Léon), and in English as “World’s Best Diet” (Penguin, Australia).