One group of rats ate a diet of 5 % glycine, and the other group
ate normal rat chow.
Some ate normal rat food while others had limited or unlimited access to junk foods, tasty to both rats and humans.
Not exact matches
Throughout the course of the experiment, the
rats getting capsaicin gained 8 percent less weight than untreated animals, and just a little more weight than
rats eating a
normal diet.
Rats deprived of sleep lose the ability to regulate metabolism — they
eat twice the
normal amount of food, but still lose weight.
Both groups of animals
ate normal lab -
rat chow throughout the experiment.
Over a period of 4 weeks,
rats develop robust, binge
eating (BE) of the chocolate with concomitant reduction in their intake of
normal chow and also showed increased impulsive behaviors.
The
rats that
ate the «diet
eating» consistently received 75 % of their
normal calorie intake.
There were four different groups of
rats: 1) «
normal diet»
eating with
normal chow in the refeed period, 2) cyclical restricted
eating (bingeing) with
normal chow in the refeed period, 3) «
normal diet»
eating with palatable food in the refeed period, and 4) cyclical restricted
eating (bingeing) with palatable food in the refeed period.
In the first test, with 24 hour deprivation and chow feeding, the
rats which had gone through restricted cycles of feeding (on both
normal and sweet food)
ate 10 % more food than the control
rats.
The
rats who
ate non palatable chow and were on
normal «diets» were perfectly fine; the
rats who had
eaten sweets but were on a
normal diet
ate about 20 % more; the
rats who had been in restricted cycling patterns and refed on sweets
ate 80 % more than control mice on
normal diets.
In the third test, in simple spontaneous feeding without a 24 hour deprivation window,
rats conditioned by sweet foods
ate more than
rats on
normal chow, regardless of whether they had been restricted or not.
The
rats with cyclical restricted
eating went through 4 days of restriction of 75 % of their
normal intake, then two days of a refeed where they could
eat ad libitum.
Specifically, sleep - restricted rodents lost weight even though they
ate more (24) and
rats with sleep disturbance because of ventrolateral preoptic area of the hypothalamus lesions (25) gained less weight even though they
ate normal amounts of food.
According to the studies the
rats that slept less,
ate more than the
rats with
normal sleep.