Berberine for Appetite Suppressant and Prevention of Obesity

Table 1

Composition of the experimental diets (g/kg diet).

Ingredients	Normal diet^1)	High fat diet^2)
Casein	200	200
DL-methionine	3	3
Corn starch	150	150
Sucrose	500	345
Cellulose	50	50
Corn oil	50	—
Beer tallow	—	205
Salt mixture	35	35
Vitamin mixture	10	10
Choline bitartrate	2	2
Fat % (calories)	11.7	40.0

¹⁾Normal diet: AIN-76A diet #100000 (Dyets Inc., Bethlehem, PA, USA). ²⁾High fat diet: AIN-76 diet #100496 (Dyets Inc., Bethlehem, PA, USA).