Table 3.

Meal Structure Analysis of Control and POMC^ΔDCR Mice

	Control	POMCΔDCR
Number of meals	11.1 ± 0.9	10.3 ± 0.4
Duration, min	10.1 ± 1.0	14.3 ± 1.2a
Food amount, g	0.28 ± 0.02	0.30 ± 0.02
Water amount, mL	0.16 ± 0.01	0.16 ± 0.01
Food to water ratio, g/mL	0.66 ± 0.14	0.65 ± 0.17
Eating rate, g/min	0.042 ± 0.004	0.027 ± 0.004a
Intermeal interval, min	58.6 ± 7.2	57.6 ± 3.2
Satiety, min/g	321.4 ± 37.1	347.8 ± 75.4

^a P < .05 compared with control mice.