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And some of these metastidies indicate our measure of calorie may be off. Lab rats fed controlled diets with measured activity have gotten fatter over the decad

And some of these metastidies indicate our measure of calorie may be off. Lab rats fed controlled diets with measured activity have gotten fatter over the decades. Somehow those rats are extracting more energy from their food or becoming more efficient at producing the measured amount of activity.

oneoff786 4y ago
The whole lab animals got fatter on controlled diets thing is based on a single study. It’s not a statistically significant trend for rats. It is for mice. I don’t have any particular gripes with the methodology but I am not totally convinced it’s well controlled https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081766/#!po=35.2459 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081766/#!po=35...