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STATEMENT OF POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST No potential conflict was reported by the authors.
FUNDING/SUPPORT This study was part of the EAT2MOVE project and supported by a grant from the Province of Gelderland, the Netherlands.
This trial was registered at www.trialregister.nl, NTR6276.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors thank the volunteers for their participation in this study.
AUTHOR CONTRIBUTIONS This study was designed by C. van der Avoort, L. van Loon M. Hopman, and L. B. Verdijk; data were collected by C. van der Avoort and analyzed by C. van der Avoort L. van Loon, M. Hopman, and L. B. Verdijk; data interpretation and manuscript preparation were undertaken by C. van der Avoort, L. van Loon, M. Hopman, and L. B. Verdijk. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.