Research suggests that seeing photos of certain foods, as opposed to eating them, still gives you a feeling of satiation, which makes those foods less appealing when it actually comes time to chow down.
Furthermore, caloric intake for the mice was calculated based on the kilocalories per gram of regular (3.1 kcal/g) and Western (4.5 kcal/g) chows times the grams of chow consumed.
As input values, average log2 ratios of 1663 high-fat responsive genes were used (HFBT and HFP divided by median of chow per time point).
Mice were fed three times a week an exceeding amount of chow by dispenser.
The animals were fed three times a day on a diet of chow, bread, fruit & vegetables.
The next time you chow down on one of the 1,024 permutations of a Burger King Whopper (the customer can make up to 10 choices per burger, like whether to have cheese or pickles), you might like to reflect on the fact that burger production has become an exact science in which everything is regimented, every distance calculated and every dollop of ketchup monitored and tracked.
"History will show that this prosecution was the most shocking of all time," Chow's lawyers wrote in a motion for dismissal last week, one peppered with allegations they are sure to revisit at trial.
The future, a visualisation of Chow's novel, features Faye Wong again, this time as an android, with Wang Jing Wen's Japanese lover (Kimura Takuya) as Chow's alter ego.
Interestingly, at the same time as animals decreased consumption of lard, they increased consumption of chow.
Far too many people chow through this time of year insisting that when the calendar flips they'll suddenly find the resolve and discipline to eat better and exercise more.
