Potential Effect of Chicken Boneless Meat on the Body Weight and Serum Cholesterol Levels of the Female Albino Wister Rats: in Direct Human Prospective Studies

Chicken meat is the most preferential consumable edible nowadays. The present increased demand and supply of the chicken has resulted in the provision of chicken feed supplemented with all the basic macro and micronutrients to the poultry. As the consequence enhanced weight gain and growth of the chickens is observed that has allowed them to attain appropriate weight and size for consumption in less than six weeks time. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effects of consumption of the commercially available chicken meat on serum cholesterol levels and the body weight in the female albino Wister rats. Fifty weaning albino rats were randomly divided into two groups (A and B). Group A was the control group and fed on rat chow. Group B was the experimental group and fed on commercially available chicken boneless meat. Each group was fed with the respective diets for the period of six weeks. The amount of diet consumed and the body weight changes were recorded weekly. The serum cholesterol level was determined at the end of the experiment using standard methods. Weight gain in group B rats increased significantly (P<0.01) and had significantly higher serum cholesterol (P<0.01), values compared with the group A. The observed increase in the cholesterol levels and the weight gain of the wistar rats may be due to the supplements of the feed concentrated in the chicken meat. These deleterious effects on the rats were inculcated as rapid gain in weight with soaring high levels of cholesterol in the blood. The increase in these parameters may however, be desirable to be studied in by human subjects so as to find any harmful effects of the chicken meat consumption on them.