Jean A. Welsh, PhD, MPH, is an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University, Atlanta, and the research director for the Strong4Life (Child Obesity Prevention) Initiative at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia.
Janet Figueroa, MPH, is a biostatistician with the Pediatric Biostatistics Core at Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, and a member of the research and evaluation team at the Strong4Life (Child Obesity Prevention) Initiative at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia.
This article is based on a presentation by Dr Jean Welsh during a conference held in Washington, DC, on October 29–30, 2015. This conference was funded by the Sugar Association and planned in part by the Department of Pediatrics Section of Nutrition, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.
Dr. Welsh received travel expenses and an honorarium from The Sugar Association for her participation in the conference. Ms Figueroa received an honorarium from Lippincott Williams and Wilkins for her assistance with the data analysis and the preparation of this article. This article appears in the Nutrition Today supplement, Sweet Taste Perception and Feeding Toddlers, funded by The Sugar Association.
The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
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Correspondence: Jean A. Welsh, PhD, MPH, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University, 1760 Haygood Dr, Atlanta, GA 30322 ([email protected]).
