Table 1 Parameters related to food ingestion and body weight variation of the experimental animals. Values expressed as mean (± standard deviation).

Groups	∆ body weight	Gastrocnemius weight (%) 1	Muscle/Tibia (mg/mm 3,85)	Food Intake (g)	Epydidimal Adipose Tissue weight (%) 1
Sup/Ex	4.0 (.5)	.55 (.07)	1.96 (.50)	600 (54)	1.05 (.38)
Ctrl/Ex	3.9 (.6)	.62 (.02)	2.00 (.40)	615 (98)	1.26 (.20)
Sup/Sed	5.2 (.3) †	.59 (.04)	2.16 (.60)	689 (29) †	1.63 (.46) †
Ctrl/Sed	5.3 (.8) *	.59 (.04)	1.95 (.70)	740 (62) ‡	1.58 (.49) ‡

∆ body weight: final weight-initial weight/initial weight tissue weight in relation to total body weight* p < 0.05 when compared to Ctrl/Sed†  p < 0.05 when compared to Sup/Ex‡ p < 0.05 when compared to Ctrl/Ex.