I was thinking these past few days a lot about scatter plots ... yeah, I'm a geek. But in that recent n=21 Ebbeling et.al. study, as chaotic as the plots (and connecting lines in that case) were, they are still instructive. And apparently some think I should be on a mission to cure obesity by finding out why their wives can eat crap and not get fat, I was reminded of the scatter plots in "Cafeteria Rat" study: Cafeteria Diet Is a Robust Model of Human Metabolic Syndrome With Liver and Adipose Inflammation: Comparison to High-Fat Diet.
If you're a newer reader, may I suggest checking out past blog posts on that study: Why We Get Fat ... Lessons from a Cafeteria Rat ; Why We Get Fat ... Lessons from Obese Humans & Cafeteria Rats ; and Why We Get (Sick) Fat - Lessons from a Cafeteria Rat
To summarize that study, they took four groups (n's varied for various legs of this study) of a normal strain of rats (Wistar, not genetically predisposed towards obesity) and fed them ad libitum on one of four diets, for 10-15 weeks.
1. SC control (estimated <5% simple sugars, 12% fat)2. HF chow - 45% fat, lard3. LF - low fat (10% lard & soybean oil) matched to HF chow with sucrose substituted for fat content4. CAF = SC + 3 human snack foods varied daily from a listRead more »
