The common use of improper control diets in diet-induced metabolic disease research confounds data interpretation: the fiber factor
Abstract Diets used to induce metabolic disease are generally high in fat and refined carbohydrates and importantly, are usually made with refined, purified ingredients. However, researchers will often use a low fat grain-based (GB) diet containing unrefined ingredients as the control diet. Such a c...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-01-01
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| Series: | Nutrition & Metabolism |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12986-018-0243-5 |