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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 ± 0.86a 84.66 ± 0.95b 84.00 ± 1.72b 96.81 ± 2.66a* 86.82 ± 1.73b 82.97 ± 1.34b
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
  1. D1: day 1
  2. D32: day 32
  3. %∆: %change at day 32 from day 1
  4. 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
  5. *: p < 0.05 vs untrained counterpart as assessed by Student’s t-test
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Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition

ISSN: 1550-2783

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