1998
DOI: 10.1042/bst026s189
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Gastrointestinal transit adaptation to low- and high-fat cafeteria diets

Abstract: Cafeteria diets (CD) have been commonly used as a model of obesity in the rat. These diets typically consist of several different high-fat supermarket foods, presented in a rotating order, to maintain the 'novelty' stimulus to eating Cafeteria diets are reported to lead to increased food and energy consumption and increased weight gain. Dameto and colleagues (1991) have shown that feeding a high-fat CD to weaning rats leads to obesity and accelerated transit of an inert meal through the gastrointestinal tract… Show more

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