In a scientific study they say that the low energy diet mice ate 30% less calories but ate the same amount of protein as the high energy diet mice, but the protein intake was in the same proportions in the low and high energy diets so I don't see how it's possible to eat 30% less calories and have the same amount of protein because you either eat 30% less calories and therefore have 30% less protein or you eat the same amount of protein and you end up with the same amount of calories?
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(14)00065-5?_returnURL=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1550413114000655?showall=true#articleInformation
I don't understand how it is possible for the following 3 statements to all be correct:
“The % of protein (P), carbohydrate (C) and fat (F) (as a % of total energy). Each diet was replicated at 8 kJ g-1 (low energy), 13 kJ g-1 (medium energy) and 17kJ g-1 (high energy).”
“ Mice fed experimental diets containing 50% nondigestible cellulose ate a greater bulk of food (3.6 ± 0.4 versus 2.5 ± 0.4 g/day) but ingested about 30% less total energy than mice provided with food containing higher energy content...”
“mice on the low-energy diets were able to achieve their protein target through increasing chronic food intake (protein intake: 9.6 ± 4.3 kJ/day with low-energy diets versus 9.6 ± 6.3 kJ/day with high-energy diets)”
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(14)00065-5?_returnURL=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1550413114000655?showall=true#articleInformation
I don't understand how it is possible for the following 3 statements to all be correct:
“The % of protein (P), carbohydrate (C) and fat (F) (as a % of total energy). Each diet was replicated at 8 kJ g-1 (low energy), 13 kJ g-1 (medium energy) and 17kJ g-1 (high energy).”
“ Mice fed experimental diets containing 50% nondigestible cellulose ate a greater bulk of food (3.6 ± 0.4 versus 2.5 ± 0.4 g/day) but ingested about 30% less total energy than mice provided with food containing higher energy content...”
“mice on the low-energy diets were able to achieve their protein target through increasing chronic food intake (protein intake: 9.6 ± 4.3 kJ/day with low-energy diets versus 9.6 ± 6.3 kJ/day with high-energy diets)”
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