Rats and Diets
36 Male Wistar rats were randomly divided into 4 groups of 9 rats with each group fed a different diet. Groups consisted of Corn starch (C), corn starch + naringin (N) (CN), high-carbohydrate high-fat diet (H) and H + N (HN) (Alam, Kauter, & Brown 2013). Rats on H and HN diet were fed a high-carbohydrate high-fat diet consisting of 25% fructose in drinking water and a mixture of beef tallow, condensed milk, powdered rat feed and salt for 16 weeks (Alam, Kauter, & Brown 2013). As a control, a separate group was given a high corn starch (C) diet, of corn starch and water (Alam, Kauter, & Brown 2013). Following the initial 8 weeks of the C and H diet, sub-groups of CN and HN rats had 1.6g naringin/kg