For comparison, the richest ice cream clocks in at only 16% fat. And after just three to five days guzzling the stuff, seal pups double their body weight. But seals aren't the only animals with ...

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What’s in a high-fat diet? When high-fat mouse diets originated, feeding animals fat seemed like an obvious way to make them gain weight. “What likely happened ...