When mice are obese and they are allowed to eat as much of they want of a high fat diet, they gained twice as much weight as the non
obese mice eating the same high fat diet.
Even obese mice bred to stay fat, when given low - calorie diets, lived longer than
obese mice eating normally.
Not exact matches
Working together with Cedric Notredame (CRG) and Elena Martín - García (UPF), the scientists found that as well as becoming
obese, the
mice started very early to show the signs of addiction - like behaviour and binge -
eating in response to these enticing foods.
«We did not do it using a genetic strain of
obese mice, but
mice that became
obese the way that people do, by
eating a high - fat, high - sugar diet.»
He noted
mice studies where the nocturnal critters became
obese if they
ate during day and night but remained a normal weight if they only
ate at night.
The knee cartilage of
obese mice who
ate the oligofructose supplement was indistinguishable from that of the lean
mice.
In another one of his studies Dr. Panda also observed at how this type of time - restricted
eating within eight - hour feeding windows would relate to
mice that were already
obese.
Obese mice that
ate a high - fat diet along with the green tea compound EGCG (Epigallocatechin -3-gallate) gained weight significantly more slowly compared to a control group of
mice which didn't get the green tea supplement.
«[Certain genetically
obese mice] will fatten excessively regardless of how much they
eat.
The healthy
mice developed low - grade intestinal inflammation and a metabolic disorder that caused them to
eat more, becoming
obese, hyperglycemic, and resistant to insulin.