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Weekly average calorie intakes of three groups over the 12-week feeding period. Average calorie intake of rats across all groups was shown to be higher at the beginning of the study when rats were fast-growing and then slowly decreased to a plateau with decreasing growth rates of rats. One-way ANOVA followed by LSD-test was used to detect significant differences of the means of the body weights at the end of the study ** p < 0.001.
