Authors

  1. Lafontan, Max PhD, DSc

Abstract

An Expert Working Group Meeting composed of the following experts covering diversified fields of expertise such as kinesiology and nutrition, public health, pediatrics, community nutrition, obesity/type 2 diabetes and metabolic diseases: L.E. Armstrong, S. Barquera, J-F. Duhamel, R. Hardinsyah, D. Haslam, and M. Lafontan, was commissioned by the Hydration for Health Initiative from Danone to perform an expertise of the major recent studies on hydration-related questions and to propose recommendations for healthy hydration. A full review article was written and will be published in the near future in Clinical Obesity journal in 2013; major conclusions of this review paper are summarized here.