Brassard, Didier
Laramée, Catherine
Provencher, Véronique
Vohl, Marie-Claude
Robitaille, Julie
Lemieux, Simone
Lamarche, Benoît
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (FHG-129921)
Article History
Received: 27 March 2019
Accepted: 15 August 2019
First Online: 29 August 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The online study protocol was approved by Laval University Ethics Committee (# 2014–271).The clinical assessment study protocol was approved by the ethics board of each participating institution (Laval University, #2014–271; Montreal Clinical Research Institute, #2015–02; Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, #15–209-07.13; Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke and ECOGENE-21 Biocluster, #MP-31-2015-997). All participants gave their informed consent before participating in the study.
: Not applicable.
: DB has received a speaking honorarium from the Dairy Farmers of Canada in 2018 and holds a doctoral training award from the <i>Fonds de recherche du Québec - Santé</i>. MCV is Canada Research Chair in Genomics Applied to Nutrition and Metabolic Health. BL is Chair of Nutrition at Laval University, which is supported by private endowments from Pfizer, La Banque Royale du Canada and Provigo-Loblaws. He has received funding from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (on going), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Growing Forward program supported by the Dairy Farmers of Canada [completed in 2017], Canola Council of Canada, Flax Council of Canada and Dow Agrosciences [completed in 2017], National Dairy Council [completed in 2017], and Atrium Innovations [completed in 2019]). He is an Advisory Board member of the Canadian Nutrition Society. Authors report no conflict of interest related to the present work.