Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition

Table 2 Body and organ weights, and food intake

From: Low-fat diet, and medium-fat diets containing coconut oil and soybean oil exert different metabolic effects in untrained and treadmill-trained mice

Training		Untrained			Trained
Diets		Low-fat	Coconut oil	Soybean oil	Low-fat	Coconut oil	Soybean oil
Food intake, g (n = 5–9)		91.26 ± 0.86^a	84.66 ± 0.95^b	84.00 ± 1.72^b	96.81 ± 2.66^a*	86.82 ± 1.73^b	82.97 ± 1.34^b
Calorie intake, kcal (n = 5–9)		351.4 ± 3.3	364.1 ± 4.1	361.2 ± 7.4	371.7 ± 10.2*	373.3 ± 7.4	356.8 ± 5.8
Body weight (n = 24–25)	D1, g	22.93 ± 0.22	23.02 ± 0.27	22.94 ± 0.25	23.01 ± 0.23	23.02 ± 0.19	22.84 ± 0.27
	D32, g	25.92 ± 0.37	26.86 ± 0.45	26.12 ± 0.32	26.99 ± 0.38	27.42 ± 0.37	26.47 ± 0.40
	%∆	13.04 ± 1.18	16.84 ± 1.88	13.97 ± 1.35	17.56 ± 2.08	19.35 ± 2.03	15.64 ± 2.17
Gastrocnemii, g (n = 8)		0.247 ± 0.005	0.243 ± 0.006	0.244 ± 0.006	0.254 ± 0.008	0.252 ± 0.008	0.245 ± 0.006
Liver, g (n = 8)		1.289 ± 0.069	1.22 ± 0.070	1.104 ± 0.027	1.491 ± 0.060*	1.306 ± 0.047	1.322 ± 0.061*
Epididymal fat, g (n = 8)		0.667 ± 0.056	0.754 ± 0.058	0.590 ± 0.049	0.587 ± 0.032	0.660 ± 0.039	0.686 ± 0.038

D1: day 1
D32: day 32
%∆: %change at day 32 from day 1
^a,b: dissimilar alphabets indicate significant difference (p < 0.05) among groups of the same training status as assessed by one-way ANOVA followed by Newman-Keuls post-hoc test
*: p < 0.05 vs untrained counterpart as assessed by Student’s t-test

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