Macadamia Oil Supplementation Attenuates Inflammation and Adipocyte Hypertrophy in Obese Mice

Table 3

Effect of high fat diet, with or without supplementation of macadamia oil, on obesity characteristics.

	CD	CD + MO	HF	HF + MO
Initial body weight (g)	24.26 ± 5.02	24.77 ± 3.37	24.2 ± 3.42	24.4 ± 4.41
Final body weight (g)	26.2 ± 1.99	26.82 ± 3.32	34.49 ± 6.96^*#	34.75 ± 4.96^*#
Liver weight (g)	1.17 ± 0.14	1.10 ± 0.23	1.33 ± 0.52	1.24 ± 0.26
Mesenteric adipose tissue weight (g)	0.32 ± 0.14	0.28 ± 0.12	0.55 ± 0.28^*#	0.52 ± 0.23^*#
Epididymal adipose tissue weight (g)	0.63 ± 0.14	0.73 ± 0.34	1.45 ± 0.60^*#	1.59 ± 0.70^*#
Retroperitoneal adipose tissue weight (g)	0.21 ± 0.06	0.24 ± 0.12	0.53 ± 0.22^*#	0.55 ± 0.17^*#
Adiposity index (g)	1.16 ± 0.24	1.25 ± 0.53	2.53 ± 1.01^*#	2.65 ± 1.01^*#
Brown adipose tissue weight (g)	0.104 ± 0.06	0.116 ± 0.03	0155 ± 0.06	0.128 ± 0.02

Values represent the means ± S.D. of the data obtained from analysis of 15 animals per group. versus CD; versus CD + MO.