I'm thinking about doing some animal testing.

[darxus]

On the hypotheses "Availability of refined sugars reduces life span.", using mice.

Any suggestions on how to make this more scientifically valuable?

Get some female mice, split them up into two cages, feed one an unlimited amount of typical healthy mouse food, and feed the other the same, plus unlimited food with extra sugar. And see how long they all take to die. Typical life span is about 1 year.

Josh is trying to convince me I need to record quantity of sugar consumed.

How many mice? Josh also recommends Hsd:ICR mice. I'm tempted to just use much cheaper pet shop mice.

Update: I think providing water with sugar in it would work better than food with sugar.

Comments

[benndragon.livejournal.com]

I highly recommend making sure no one has done that study already (both to save you labor and to get you an answer much more quickly). I suggest starting with PubMed for that sort of research.