Sentences with phrase «calories than the rats»

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They found that pubescent rats would press the lever much more often than rats of any other age, putting in far more work for the calories they were getting, given their size.

Other studies had showed that rats fed fewer calories than their slow and balding brethren maintained their shiny coats and a youthful vigour.

In a Purdue University study, rats drinking liquids with artificial sweeteners consumed more calories overall than rats whose drinks were sweetened with sugar.

For example, studies have shown that young, inactive rats have reduced insulin sensitivity (a precursor to type - 2 diabetes), eat more and burn off fewer calories, and develop larger fat pads than animals who continue to exercise.

In a 2010 Princeton University study, researchers found that rats given water sweetened with HFCS gained significantly more weight than those given water sweetened with plain sugar, despite calorie intake being the same between both groups.

What the rat experiment convincing shows, however, is that the standard model for treating obesity, that 99.9999 % of humanity believes — «just burn off more calories than you consume» — is, AT BEST, an oversimplification.

Incidentally, the laboratory rats did NOT develop similar tumors when researchers fed them more than 10 % of their total calories from soy protein.

A total of 14 studies (64 %) showed that rats with access to food with low - calorie sweeteners gained more weight than those with access to glucose - sweetened food.

Researchers found that rats drinking high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) gained significantly more weight than rats drinking sugar water, even though the amount of calories consumed was the same.

Researchers who attempted to quantify the essential fatty acid requirement using purified fatty acids showed that just over two percent of calories as linoleic acid was needed to prevent deficiency in growing rats while less than 0.7 percent of calories as arachidonic acid was needed.10 Lower amounts of arachidonic acid may have proven effective had the researchers tested them.

8 The Burrs showed that the requirement was only 0.4 percent of calories when they used lard to cure the disease in growing rats and that the requirement was only 0.1 percent of calories when they used liver to cure it.7 Liver probably proved more effective than lard both because it is much richer in arachidonic acid and because it is rich in vitamin B6, which greatly enhances the conversion of linoleic acid to arachidonic acid.19

One study showed that rats who drank HFCS - sweetened beverages gained significantly more weight than those who slurped drinks sweetened with sugar — even when both groups consumed the same amount of calories.

Rats fed HFCS gained a lot more weight than rats fed real sugar, even when fed the same number of calorRats fed HFCS gained a lot more weight than rats fed real sugar, even when fed the same number of calorrats fed real sugar, even when fed the same number of calories.