Table 1.

Effect of high fat diet and exercise training on body weight and visceral fat tissue

	Sedentary		Trained
Regime	SD	HFD	SD	HFD
Body weight (g)	271 ± 4	352 ± 9*	*342 ± 8*	333 ± 3*
Visceral fat pads (g (100 g)−1)	5.9 ± 0.5	9.6 ± 0.7†	6.7 ± 1.2	8.3 ± 0.5†

High fat diet regime led to a significant higher mean body weight in sedentary animals (*P≤ 0.05). The consequence of HFD regime was not observable when combined with exercise training. HFD regime led to an increased visceral fat mass in both sedentary and trained HFD rats when respectively compared to sedentary and trained SD animals (†P≤ 0.05). Data are means ±s.e.m., n= 6 animals/group.