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^*Department of Nutrition and Dietetics Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Herston

^†School of Human Movements and Nutrition Science, University of Queensland Brisbane

^§School of Agricultural, Computational and Environmental Sciences, International Centre for Applied Climate Sciences and Centre for Health, Informatics, and Economic Research, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba

^∥Sunnybank Obesity Centre, McCullough Centre, Sunnybank

^¶Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD Australia

^‡Institute of Mathematical Sciences University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

^#Faculty of Health and Social Science Bolton University, Bolton, Lancashire, UK

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.