mikaelj
2011-02-27, 20:10
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/health/20monkey.html?_r=2
“It wasn’t until we added those carbs that we got all those other changes, including those changes in body fat,” said Anthony G. Comuzzie, who helped create an obese baboon colony at the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio.
Still, about 40 percent do not put on a lot of weight.
Barbara C. Hansen of the University of South Florida said calories, but not high fat, were important. “To suggest that humans and monkeys get fat because of a high-fat diet is not a good suggestion,” she said.
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For example, they point to studies in the last two years by Dr. Grove and colleagues showing that when pregnant monkeys ate the high-fat diet, their offspring had metabolic problems. The babies were also more prone to anxiety when confronted with threatening objects, like a Mr. Potato Head with huge eyes.
“It wasn’t until we added those carbs that we got all those other changes, including those changes in body fat,” said Anthony G. Comuzzie, who helped create an obese baboon colony at the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio.
Still, about 40 percent do not put on a lot of weight.
Barbara C. Hansen of the University of South Florida said calories, but not high fat, were important. “To suggest that humans and monkeys get fat because of a high-fat diet is not a good suggestion,” she said.
(...)
For example, they point to studies in the last two years by Dr. Grove and colleagues showing that when pregnant monkeys ate the high-fat diet, their offspring had metabolic problems. The babies were also more prone to anxiety when confronted with threatening objects, like a Mr. Potato Head with huge eyes.