Endocrine Abstracts

The control of obesity and the regulation of its components are strongly linked to nutrition. Thus, low calorie diets restricted in carbohydrates and lipids are becoming increasingly suitable for combating the complications of obesity. In the present work, we propose to report the short-term repercussions of dietary carbohydrate and lipid restriction on the weight parameters of the obese gerbil. Our experiment was undertaken on a species of gerbil (Gerbillus tarabuli) and last...