Table 4.
Increased Meal Size vs. Increased Meal Frequency
| Increased Meal Size | Increased Meal Frequency | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | After diet | P | Baseline | After diet | P | |
| BMI (kg/m2) | 22.05 ± 0.98 | 22.75 ± 1.04 | < 0.001 | 22.5 ± 1.5 | 23.2 ± 1.6 | < 0.001 |
| Basal EGP (μmol/kg.min) | 11.9 ± 1.0 | 11.9 ± 1.3 | 0.94 | 11.8 ± 1.0 | 12.1 ± 1.3 | 0.29 |
| Suppression of EGP (%) | 76.5 ± 7.7 | 77.1 ± 6.6 | 0.84 | 78.3 ± 14.0 | 74.7 ± 6.6 | 0.28 |
| Rd (μmol/kg.min) | 64.2 ± 9.0 | 62.7 ± 8.9 | 0.54 | 61.3 ± 9.9 | 60.0 ± 9.9 | 0.45 |
| Step 1 FFA suppression (%) | 92.4 ± 6.3 | 89.9 ± 6.7 | 0.31 | 92.5 ± 5.0 | 89.6 ± 6.4 | 0.04 |
| Step 2 FFA suppression (%) | 97.9 ± 3.1 | 97.2 ± 4.1 | 0.51 | 97.5 ± 3.4 | 97.2 ± 3.3 | 0.68 |
| Intra-abdominal adipose tissue (L) | 0.421 ± 0.112 | 0.444 ± 0.075 | 0.35 | 0.515 ± 0.167 | 0.581 ± 0.171 | < 0.001 |
| Visceral adipose tissue (L) | 0.196 ± 0.068 | 0.215 ± 0.041 | 0.18 | 0.239 ± 0.073 | 0.266 ± 0.077 | 0.02 |
| Subcutaneous adipose tissue (L) | 0.225 ± 0.069 | 0.228 ± 0.056 | 0.83 | 0.276 ± 0.111 | 0.315 ± 0.115 | < 0.001 |
| Intrahepatic triglyceride content (%) | 0.83 ± 0.38 | 1.00 ± 0.77 | 0.35 | 1.22 ± 0.93 | 2.18 ± 1.90 | 0.01 |