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Weight gain in postweaned rats as a function of predictable and unpredictable feeding schedules
R R Ulm1, J R Volpicelli, R Cerpa
1Department of Psychology, Salisbury State College, MD 21801.
Physiology & Behavior
|January 1, 1987
Abstract:
In two experiments rats given unpredictable feeding schedules gained less weight over a 24 or 30 day training period than rats which consumed an equivalent amount of food on a predictable schedule. These results suggest that irregular feeding schedules disrupt food utilization.