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The influence of dietary fat on fat metabolism and body Fat deposition in meal-feeding and nibbling rats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

J. D. Wood  and
J. T. Reid
J. D. Wood
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
J. T. Reid
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
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Abstract

1. An experiment was done with rats (body-weight 160 g) to study the effects on fat metabolism and body composition of low (10 g/kg)- or high (140 g/kg)-fat diets fed as one meal for one 4 h period/d (meal-feeders) or as six spaced meals/d (nibblers). The daily energy intake/unit metabolic body-weight (body-weight0.73) was the same for all four groups, and this level of intake was about 80% of that consumed by rats allowed unrestricted access to the low-fat diet. The experimental period was 76 d.

2. Rats given the high-fat diet deposited more body fat/d and, as a result, grew faster and were energetically more efficient than rats given the low-fat diet. The high-fat diet depressed de novo lipogenesis from glucose in epididymal and perirenal fat pads, whose fatty acid composition resembled that of the diet.

3. For both diets meal-feeders had greater stomach plus small intestine weights than nibblers and had higher plasma free fatty acid levels, when they were killed 15 h after their last meal.

4. Meal-feeders given the low-fat diet had the greatest rate of lipogenesis for fat pads.

5. Meal-feeders given the high-fat diet deposited less of the main dietary fatty acids in their fat pads.

6. There was no evidence that meal-feeders eating a high-fat diet adapt their metabolism so completely that they become more efficient utilizers than those nibbling this diet. Meal-feeders eating the low-fat diet became no fatter than nibblers of this diet, possibly because they were eating less than their daily ad lib. intake.

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British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , July 1975 , pp. 15 - 24
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1975

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