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Cafeteria Diet

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Cafeteria Diet
An experimental system for studying obesity that allows lab animals (rats) free, ‘cafeteria-style’ access to ‘junk-food’—cookies, candy, etc.


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In rats fed ascorbic acid, vitamin C "was able to protect against high-fat-diet effects, reducing the increase of body weight, total body fat, and enlargement of different adipose deposits induced by the cafeteria diet," the researchers concluded.
The younger students never noticed the fat calorie percentage in their cafeteria diet shrinking from 38 percent to 28 percent over the past school year.
 
 
 
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