BridgesLab / PredictorsDietInducedObesity

This repository contains code and manuscripts for a project in the lab relating to predicting the amount of diet induced obesity.
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Clarify the food composition #12

Closed davebridges closed 10 years ago

davebridges commented 10 years ago

Table 1 - the percentages given as fat, CHO and protein do not add up to 100% (67% for chow, 89 and 91% for CD and HFD so this leads me to believe that it is by weight with fibre missing from the calculation? But I cannot compute how a 45% fat by weight diet is only 0.7kcals/g less than the 5% by weight fat diet. Please check.

davebridges commented 10 years ago

Spoke with reps from Research Diets, when calculating by percent of calories, maltodextran wasnt included in the starch component. That was added to Table 1