Probiotic Foods Are Effective on Weight Loss, Biochemical Parameters, and Intestinal Microbiota in Wistar Albino Rats with Obese Microbiota

Table 3

The comparison of weight gain before and after dietary intervention by intervention and gender.

Dietary intervention (n = 7 per group)	Body weight gain (g) (M ± SD)
	Before intervention		After intervention
	1st month	2nd month	3rd month	4th month	5th month
NDC^a	73.29 ± 31.31	17.14 ± 9.51	10.86 ± 15.97	16.00 ± 9.66	4.14 ± 7.76
HFDC^b	93.43 ± 27.43	18.71 ± 12.92	15.86 ± 13.55	13.00 ± 13.18	12.14 ± 11.20
Kefir + HFD^c	71.14 ± 40.33	29.28 ± 18.62	12.14 ± 10.73	20.00 ± 8.00	8.86 ± 10.43
Tarhana + HFD^d	92.00 ± 46.88	15.00 ± 8.41	10.00 ± 2.16	17.71 ± 13.92	10.00 ± 8.81
Kefir + Tarhana + HFD^e	90.71 ± 31.45	13.00 ± 19.82	5.00 ± 6.58	20.29 ± 15.91	14.14 ± 10.70
p value	0.66	0.28	0.47	0.80	0.40
Gender
Male (n = 15)	116.60 ± 25.55	15.73 ± 23.97	18.67 ± 9.20	28.07 ± 10.10	10.47 ± 12.16
Female (n = 20)	59.75 ± 17.44	14.15 ± 14.17	4.85 ± 8.02	9.40 ± 5.18	9.40 ± 8.08
p value	0.00	0.82	0.00	0.00	0.77

NDC, Normal diet control; HFDC, High fat diet control; Kefir + HFD, Kefir + High fat diet; Tarhana + HFD, Tarhana + High fat diet; Kefir + Tarhana + HFD, Kefir + Tarhana + High fat diet. a, b, c, d, e: Lettering represent groups. It states that there is a significant difference between the groups represented by the letters in the lettering (). Multiple group comparisons were performed using one-way ANOVA and Tukey’s HSD posthoc test. Comparisons by gender were performed using the independent samples t-test. p values are for changes between groups by dietary intervention. values are for changes between groups by gender.