About the Authors

Allana G. LeBlanc

Contributed equally to this work with: Allana G. LeBlanc, Jean-Philippe Chaput

Affiliation Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Jean-Philippe Chaput

Contributed equally to this work with: Allana G. LeBlanc, Jean-Philippe Chaput

jpchaput@cheo.on.ca

Affiliations Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Allison McFarlane

Affiliation Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Rachel C. Colley

Affiliations Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

David Thivel

Affiliation Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Stuart J. H. Biddle

Affiliation School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough & The NIHR Leicester-Loughborough Diet, Lifestyle and Physical Activity Biomedical Research Unit, United Kingdom

Ralph Maddison

Affiliation National Institute for Health Innovation, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Scott T. Leatherdale

Affiliation School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Mark S. Tremblay

Affiliations Healthy Active Living and Obesity Research Group, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Pediatrics, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MST AGL JPC RCC RM SJHB SL. Performed the experiments: MST AGL JPC AM DT RCC RM SJHB SL. Analyzed the data: MST AGL JPC AM DT RCC RM SJHB SL. Wrote the paper: MST AGL JPC AM DT RCC RM SJHB SL.