Forming New Health Behavior Habits During Weight Loss Maintenance—The PREVIEW Study

ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01777893. Funding sources included EU Framework Program 7 (FP7/2007–2013) Grant 312057; National Health and Medical Research Council—EU Collaborative Grant AUS 8, ID 1067711; the Glycemic Index Foundation Australia through royalties to the University of Sydney; the New Zealand Health Research Council (14/191) and University of Auckland Faculty Research Development Fund; the Cambridge Weight Plan, United Kingdom, which donated all products for the 8-week low-energy diet period; the Danish Agriculture & Food Council; the Danish Meat and Research Institute; the National Institute for Health Research Biomedical Research Center (United Kingdom); the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (United Kingdom); the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (United Kingdom); Nutritics (Dublin), which donated all dietary analyses software used by University of Nottingham; the Juho Vainio Foundation (Finland); the Academy of Finland (Grants 272376, 314383, 266286, 314135); the Finnish Medical Foundation; the Gyllenberg Foundation; the Novo Nordisk Foundation; the Finnish Diabetes Research Foundation; the University of Helsinki; the Government Research Funds for Helsinki University Hospital; the Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation (Finland); and the Emil Aaltonen Foundation (Finland). The funders of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation, or writing of the report.

Anne Raben received honorariums from the International Sweeteners Association and Unilever. Pia Siig Vestentoft received travel grants from the Cambridge Weight Plan, United Kingdom. Ian Macdonald was a member of the United Kingdom Government Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, Mars Scientific Advisory Council, Mars Europe Nutrition Advisory Board, Nestle Research Scientific Advisory Board, and Novozymes Scientific Advisory Board; was a scientific adviser to the Waltham Center for Pet Nutrition; and was treasurer of the Federation of European Nutrition Societies and of the World Obesity Federation. Jennie Brand-Miller was president and director of the Glycemic Index Foundation and oversees a glycemic index testing service at the University of Sydney. Sally D. Poppitt was the Fonterra chair in human nutrition and principal investigator for New Zealand National Science Challenge High Value Nutrition. Thomas M. Larsen is an advisor for the Sense diet program. J. Alfredo Martinez is president of the International Union of Nutritional Sciences. All other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Maija Huttunen-Lenz served as lead for conceptualization, formal analysis, methodology, and writing—original draft and served in a supporting role for project administration. Sylvia Hansen contributed equally to writing—review and editing and served in a supporting role for investigation and project administration. Anne Raben served as lead for funding acquisition, investigation, project administration, and conceptualization—PREVIEW project and randomized controlled trial (RCT) intervention study (lead) and contributed equally to writing—review and editing. Margriet Westerterp-Plantenga served as lead for conceptualization—PREVIEW project and RCT intervention study (lead) and contributed equally to investigation, project administration, and writing—review and editing. Ian Macdonald contributed equally to investigation, project administration, and writing—review and editing. Gareth Stratton contributed equally to investigation, project administration, and writing—review and editing. Nils Swindell contributed equally to investigation, project administration, and writing—review and editing. J. Alfredo Martinez contributed equally to investigation, project administration, and writing—review and editing. Teodora Handjieva-Darlenska contributed equally to investigation, project administration, and writing—review and editing. Sally D. Poppitt contributed equally to investigation, project administration, and writing—review and editing. Marta P. Silvestre contributed equally to investigation, project administration, and writing—review and editing. Mikael Fogelholm served as lead for project administration and conceptualization—PREVIEW project and RCT intervention study (lead) and contributed equally to funding acquisition, methodology, and writing—review and editing. Elli Jalo contributed equally to investigation, project administration, and writing—review and editing. Jennie Brand-Miller served as lead for project administration and conceptualization—PREVIEW project and RCT intervention study (lead) and contributed equally to funding acquisition, investigation, and writing—review and editing. Roslyn Muirhead contributed equally to investigation, project administration, and writing—review and editing. Thomas M. Larsen contributed equally to investigation, methodology, project administration, writing—review and editing, and design of the PREVIEW intervention study (RCT). Pia Siig Vestentoft contributed equally to investigation, project administration, and writing—review and editing. Svetoslav Handjiev contributed equally to investigation, project administration, and writing—review and editing. Wolfgang Schlicht served as lead for methodology, project administration, writing—review and editing, and conceptualization—PREVIEW project and PREMIT intervention design (lead).

Maija Huttunen-Lenz, Institute of Nursing Science, University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, Oberbettringerstraße 200, 73525 Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany [email protected]

Received June 7, 2021

revised November 18, 2021

Accepted February 10, 2022