“Mice are a good model for human obesity . . . but it seems to me that, for diet, the mouse literature has gone off track,” said Craig Warden, who studies the genetics of body fat accumulation at the ...

MICE were fed from 3 to 6 weeks of age (weaning to mating) on diets made up by diluting a normal diet with different levels of an indigestible filler (cellulose). A greater range of diets ...

Scientists have already discovered that a mouse father's diet can have an impact not only on his own reproductive health but on that of his offspring. Over- or under-feeding male mice can affect ...