Aged garlic extract enhances exercise-mediated improvement of metabolic parameters in high fat diet-induced obese rats.
- Author:
Dae Yun SEO
1
;
Sungryul LEE
;
Arturo FIGUEROA
;
Yi Sub KWAK
;
Nari KIM
;
Byoung Doo RHEE
;
Kyung Soo KO
;
Hyun Seok BANG
;
Yeong Ho BAEK
;
Jin HAN
Author Information
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords: Aged garlic extract; exercise; high fat diet; obesity; metabolic parameters
- MeSH: Aged; Animals; Body Weight; C-Reactive Protein; Cholesterol; Cytokines; Diet; Diet, High-Fat; Garlic; Humans; Immune System; Inflammation; Intra-Abdominal Fat; Liver; Obesity; Oxidative Stress; Rats; Rats, Sprague-Dawley; Running; Triglycerides; Weight Gain
- From:Nutrition Research and Practice 2012;6(6):513-519
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: Aged garlic extract (AGE) is known to have a protective effect against immune system, endothelial function, oxidative stress and inflammation. We examined the effects of exercise with and without aged garlic extract administration on body weight, lipid profiles, inflammatory cytokines, and oxidative stress marker in high-fat diet (HFD)-induced obese rats. Forty-five Sprague-Dawley rats were fed either a HFD (HFD, n = 40) or a normal diet (ND, n = 5) for 6 weeks and thereafter randomized into ND (n = 5), HFD (n = 10), HFD with AGE (n = 10), HFD with Exercise (n = 10), or HFD with Exercise+AGE (n = 10) for 4 weeks. AGE groups were administered at a dose of 2.86 g/kg.body weight, orally. Exercise consisted of running 15-60 min 5 days/week with gradually increasing intensity. AGE (P < 0.01), Exercise, and Exercise+AGE (P < 0.001) attenuated body weight gain and food efficiency ratio compared to HFD. Visceral fat and liver weight gain were attenuated (P < 0.05) with all three interventions with a greater effect on visceral fat in the Exercise+AGE than AGE (P < 0.001). In reducing visceral fat (P < 0.001), epididymal fat (P < 0.01) and liver weight (P < 0.001), Exercise+AGE was effective, but exercise showed a stronger suppressive effect than AGE. Exercise+AGE showed further additive effects on reducing visceral fat and liver weight (P < 0.001). AGE significantly attenuated the increase in total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol compared with HFD (P < 0.05). Exercise+AGE attenuated the increase in triglycerides compared with HFD (P < 0.05). Exercise group significantly decrease in C-reactive protein (P < 0.001). These results suggest that AGE supplementation and exercise alone have anti-obesity, cholesterol lowering, and anti-inflammatory effects, but the combined intervention is more effective in reducing weight gain and triglycerides levels than either intervention alone.
