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Is it just me or does 2 tablespoons of canola oil a day seem like a crazy amount for a mouse to consume? Mice usually eat around 5g of food per day, yet 2Tbsp o
by Salgat 5y ago
Is it just me or does 2 tablespoons of canola oil a day seem like a crazy amount for a mouse to consume? Mice usually eat around 5g of food per day, yet 2Tbsp of canola oil is 27g. Worse yet, the control had a normal diet instead of an alternative oil, so for all we know these results would occur with any mouse given large amounts of any vegetable oil. They mention a previous study with olive oil giving beneficial results, but for that study they simply used olive oil enriched mouse feed.
- cung 5y agoGreat issues raised. Searching for canola and brain on scholar gives research on high fat diets with similarish findings https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031938419307838 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00319...
- barbarbar 5y agoVery good points. It would be good if they had calc what that would be for an avg human. Let's say a very hungry person eat 1kg of food. Then they should consume more than 5kg canola oil. Bon appetite.
- conistonwater 5y agoI think so too: the mice went from 27g to 38g (32g for control mice), so they gained a lot of weight on this diet. For a human that would be like going from normal weight to borderline obese in six months. But I wonder if the mice were still growing up during the study (they were 6 months old at the start), maybe they got merely overweight.