From the 1Department of Nutrition, Food, and Exercise Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; 2The Center for Advancing Exercise and Nutrition Research on Aging, Department of Nutrition, Food, and Exercise Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; 3Department of Advanced Periodontology, Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; 4School of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA; 5New England Musculoskeletal Institute, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT; and 6Department of Statistics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK.
Received December 4, 2013; revised and accepted February 25, 2014.
B.H.A. and D.Y.S. designed the research. D.Y.S., B.H.A., N.B., and S.H. conducted the research. S.A.J., N.B., M.E.P., and B.H.A. analyzed the data. N.B., S.A.J., R.G.F., M.L.E., and B.H.A. wrote the manuscript. B.H.A. had primary responsibility for the final content. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Funding/support: The gracious gift from Dr. Frederick J. Radd (Ponca City, OK) partly supported this project.
Financial disclosure/conflicts of interest: None reported.
Address correspondence to: Bahram H. Arjmandi, PhD, RD, Department of Nutrition, Food, and Exercise Sciences, Florida State University, 436-A Sandels Building, Tallahassee, FL 32306. E-mail: [email protected]