Correction to: International Journal of Obesity advance online publication 17 January 2017; doi:10.1038/ijo.2016.228

The authors omitted the following acknowledgement from their manuscript:

This work was also supported from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) in the form of a Fellowship to I.V.: SFRH/BPD/90032/2012, structural funding for the CNC (PEst-C/SAU/LA0001/2013-2014) and grant EXPL/DTP-PIC/0069/2012. NMR data was collected at the UC-NMR facility that is supported by FEDER and FCT (RECI/QEQ-QFI/0168/2012, CENTRO-07-CT62-FEDER-002012) and Rede Nacional de Ressonância Magnética Nuclear (RNRMN). EASD Albert Renold Travel Fellowship (P. Zouhar).