Sentences with phrase «than rats eating»

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.

Not exact matches

Rather than try to avoid the shock when the light came on, «addicted» rats just carried on eating.

Barnes and his colleagues showed four years ago that female rats fed soya bean products and dosed with cancer - causing chemicals were much less likely to develop breast cancer than those eating proprietary rat food.

More specifically, both amnesic rats and people with damage to the hippocampus — a key structure in memory formation — tend to eat in short sporadic bouts, rather than in a few concentrated meals.

Liang thinks rats make better models of human feeding behaviors than mice because rats are bigger mammals and eat significantly more than mice, making it easier to measure their food intake.

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.

Velvet was one of the unlikely rats that succumbed to a tumor, but I will say this: She was a thousand times better as a pet than the frogs we got a year later, which insisted on eating only live crickets we caught ourselves every night.

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.

In the second test, with 24 hour deprivation and cookie feeding, rats that had been in sweet restricted cycles ate almost 20 % more food than the control group.

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.

Interestingly enough, the rats that had been conditioned on sweet food were not all that interested in the chow feeding, and actually ate 20 % less chow than the control group.

Self - selecting exercised rats eat more protein and fat than exercised chow rats and are leaner (I don't know about their performance).

Studies with rats have shown those given Garcinia Cambogia tend to eat less than those in the control group (11, 12).

The rats that ate a diet supplemented by 2 percent with blackberries displayed better motor performance, balance and coordination than the control group.

The rats who ate the high - sugar diets gained weight faster and gained more weight than the rats who had not eaten sugar.

The rats on the 5 % casein diet ate much less food than the rats on the 20 % casein diet.

In 1991, however, Campbell's group published a study using Fisher 344 rats showing that rats fed 4 % casein ate more and weighed less than rats fed greater amounts of casein ranging from 8 % to 20 % (16).

A study showed that rats who ate a high - fat diet with cherry powder gained less weight than rats who didn't have cherry powder.

According to the studies the rats that slept less, ate more than the rats with normal sleep.

That is why our society can generally find it acceptable to eat some animals and keep others as pets, why rats are often viewed as diseased pests while squirrels are seen as beautiful woodland creatures, or why wearing fur has become taboo but most people don't think twice about leather and I believe why cats are viewed and treated as more disposable than dogs.