**Author details**

#### Parvin Mirmiran\*

*Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Nutrition Sciences and Food Technology, National Nutrition and Food Technology Research Institute, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran* 

#### Somayeh Hosseinpour-Niazi

*Nutrition Related Non-Communicable Disease, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran* 

#### Fereidoun Azizi

*Endocrine Research Center, Research Institute for Endocrine Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran* 
