Abstract
Abstract Rats exposed to irregular meal durations and irregular inter-meal intervals during protracted food deprivation; ate less food, lost more weight and exhibited more glandular-stomach lesions and deaths than rats receiving regular periods of feeding and fasting. Complete privation of food produced lesions primarily confined to the rumen of the stomach. Severity of deprivation per se, as defined by amount of weight lost, does not appear to account for the greater incidence in glandular-stomach lesions and death produced by protracted exposure to irregular as opposed to regular feeding. It is suggested that the irregular feeding schedules produce their deleterious effects via the unpredictability of feeding and fasting periods.
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