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> With the diet change, the animals should have lost weight, if anything. I think the far more likely explanation is that they don't have a complete understand
by heptathorp 10y ago
> With the diet change, the animals should have lost weight, if anything.
I think the far more likely explanation is that they don't have a complete understanding of nutrition and their expectations about the diet change were wrong.
"But we put the marmosets on a No-Fat diet! They should be losing weight!"
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- KirinDave 10y agoFad diets a la Taubes's poorly researched book are not very popular in lab settings, where calories in/out work tends to make quantification easier. And given the low cost and overhead of fresher food, many research animals I've been involved with in a past life are pretty well compared to th humans overseeing them.
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