Correction to: International Journal of Obesity advance online publication, 27 July 2010; doi:10.1038/ijo.2010.146

After the publication of the article, the authors noticed that one author is missing from the authors' list:

Jonas T Sertorio

Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirao Preto,Department of Pharmacology, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

The complete list is:

DC Souza-Costa, VA Belo, PS Silva, JT Sertorio, IF Metzger, CM Lanna, MA Machado and JE Tanus-Santos.

The authors would like to apologize for this mistake.