Biometric and plasma parameters of male and female rats fed with a standard chow diet (ST) or a cafeteria diet (CAF) + standard chow diet.

Legend Table 1. Male (M) and female (F) rats were fed from weaning (at day 21 of life) and for 8 weeks with a ST (M_ST and F_ST groups) or a CAF diet (M_CAF and F_CAF groups). An extra group of males were fed with the CAF diet for 7 weeks and with the ST diet only for the final week of the study (M_ABS group). The data are given as the mean ± SEM (n = 7–8). *Relative liver weight and relative RWAT weight were calculated following the formula (100* tissue weight/body weight) and expressed as a percentage of the total body weight. The statistical comparison between males and females fed with a ST (M_ST and F_ST groups) or a CAF diet (M_CAF and F_CAF groups) was performed by two- and one-way ANOVA. D: the effect of the type of diet. G: the effect of the gender (two-way ANOVA, pABC Mean values within a row with unlike capital letters were significantly different between groups (one-way ANOVA and Tukey's post hoc comparison, pab mean values within a row with unlike small letters indicate where there are significant differences between groups (one-way ANOVA and Tukey's post hoc comparison, p