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Differences between Sucrose and Glucose Diets in their Effects on the Rate of Body Weight Change in Rats

Departments of Physiology and Oral Medicine and Pathology, Guy's Hospital Medical and Dental School, London, SE1 9RT U. K.

At a sub-optimal level of energy intake, male rats lost weight at a greater rate when fed a glucose diet than a sucrose diet. Both diets had the same gross energy value as determined by ballistic bomb calorimeter. During a later period of weight gain on a higher energy intake, no difference between the two high carbohydrate regimes was seen, although more carcass fat per unit of gross energy consumed was deposited on the sucrose diet than on the isoenergetic glucose diet.

KEY WORDS: • sucrose • glucose • body weight.

Manuscript received 17 March 1981.