Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Professions, Birzeit University, West B, Palestine, and Department of Nutrition and Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, United Arab Emirates (Kittana); Nutrition and Food Technology Department, Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine (Dr Badrasawi); and Healthy and Therapeutic Nutrition, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Palestine Polytechnic University, Hebron, Palestine (Dr Hamdan, Sharkh, and Shabaneh).

Correspondence: Manal Badrasawi, PhD, Nutrition and Food Technology Department, Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, An-Najah National University, PO Office 7, Nablus, Palestine ([email protected]).

The authors acknowledge the nutritionists and dietitians who helped the researchers in participants' recruitment. The authors express their gratitude to the bariatric surgery patients who agreed to participate in this study. The authors also thank all coresearchers and fieldworkers involved in this study.

The authors declare they have no competing interests.