The offspring exposed to junk food in utero were 95 percent more likely to overeat than those whose mothers had eaten only rat chow, consuming an average of 22 percent more calories a day They left their protein-rich chow almost untouched while they gorged on sweets, growing more than 25 percent fatter than their fellows.
The present study was designed to clarify the principal herb responsible for the improvement of insulin resistance produced by Die-Huang-Wan, a mixture of six herbs, in rats fed with fructose-rich chow for 4 weeks.
Male 4-wk-old Wistar rats from the University of Campinas Breeding Center were randomly divided into two groups, control, fed standard rodent chow (3948 kcandKg−1) anDIOIO, fed a fat-rich chow (5358 kcal.Kg−1) ad libitum for 3 months and then submitted to the different experimental protocols.
First, TGMAT pups fail to adapt to the dietary switch from fatty acid-rich milk to carbohydrate-rich chow.
The decrease of plasma glucose in fructose-rich chow-fed rats produced by dioscorea was similar to that treated with Die-Huang-Wan at same dosing; while the other five herbs failed to produce same influence.
A decrease in plasma glucose was observed in fructose-rich chow-fed rats received an oral administration of Die-Huang-Wan at 26 mg/kg for 60 min but it disappeared with the deletion of dioscorea (Dioscoreae rhizoma) while this action was not modified by the deletion of other five herbs.
For example, mice ingesting chow rich in endogenous omega-3 fatty acids have less severe colitis.
When transferred from their normal low-calorie saltbush diet to a more energy rich diet (regular rodent laboratory chow) the majority of the animals develop diabetes within a few weeks [23], [24].
In the first experiment, female C57BL/6 mice (n=23 30 per group) were fed a cholate containing Paigen diet, a safflower oil-rich diet (with cholate), or normal chow for 15 weeks.
Starring Chow Yun Fat, Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi.
