Changes in daily food intake. (A), Initial body weight (B), final body weight (C), relative organ weight of liver (D), kidney (E), heart (F), testis (G), epididymal fat pat (H) and perirenal fat pat (I) in hamsters fed one of the five diets. NCD, no cholesterol diet; HCD, high cholesterol diet containing 0.1% cholesterol; PC, high cholesterol diet containing 0.5% cholestyramine; LP, high cholesterol diet containing a low dose (0.1%) of soybean germ phytosterols (SGP); HP, high cholesterol diet containing a high dose (0.2%) of soybean germ phytosterols (SGP). n = 8 for each group. a,b,c = means with different superscript letters differ significantly at p < 0.05.