The Physiology Of the WEight Reduced State (POWERS) study: design and rationale for assessment of food intake, physical activity and other behavioral constructs

POWERS was funded as a Cooperative Agreement between the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), the NIH Offices of Disease Prevention (ODP), Behavior and Social Science Research (OBSSR), and Nutrition Research (ONR) to the following investigators: Rudolph L. Leibel, MD [Contact], Dympna Gallagher, EdD, Laurel Mayer, MD, Michael Rosenbaum, MD (UH3 DK128302); Michael R. Lowe, PhD [Contact], Kelly Allison, PhD, Matthew Hayes, PhD, Susan Roberts, PhD (UH3 DK128298); and Steven H. Belle, PhD, MScHyg [Contact], Wendy C. King, PhD, (U24 DK128125). Additional funding to support this study was provided to Panayiotis V. Benos, PhD (R01 HL159805), Rudolph L. Leibel, MD (P30 DK026687 Human Phenotyping Core, Molecular Biology Molecular Genetics Core), Muredach Reilly, MBBCh, MSCE (UL1TR001873 Clinical Research Resource; Bionutrition Unit), Dympna Gallagher, EdD (T32 DK007559 in support of Giada Benasi, PhD, and K26 DK138418), and Anthony W. Ferrante, MD, PhD (Hunter Eastman Fellowship in Translational Research in support of Maxine Ashby-Thompson, EdD). Roger A. Fielding, PhD, was partially supported by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), under agreement No. 58-8050-9-004, by NIH Boston Claude D. Pepper Center (OAIC; 1P30AG031679), and Sai Krupa Das was supported by the USDA Agricultural Research Service Cooperative Agreements # 58-8050-9-004 and # 1950-51000-071-01S. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the USDA. We also thank the University of Pennsylvania Diabetes Research Center (DRC) for the use of the Radioimmunoassay Core (NIH DK019525). The project described was supported by the National Center for Research Resources and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, through Grant 5-UL1-TR-001878-09. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Additional support was provided by the Robard Corporation, Mt Laurel, New Jersey, which supplied Numetra meal replacement products.