Who wouldn't want to take part in a study that involves eating 4 cupcakes a day??

From Fox News Health:

It sounds like every dessert lover's dream: 40 volunteers will eat four cupcakes a day in a university experiment to study the effects of fat on the human body, The Local Sweden reported Friday.

The volunteers, students at Uppsala University, will keep up their sugary marathon for six weeks.

Fredrik Rosqvist, a PhD student specializing in fatty acids and metabolism who is leading the study, said it was not difficult to find 40 subjects willing to step forward and put their girth on the line, the website reported.

"The idea is that different kinds of fat have different effects on the human body," Rosqvist told Sveriges Radio (SR).

He will personally bake all the cupcakes, to make sure they're uniform, as well as monitoring the medical health of his subjects.


And from the original article in Sweden's The Local:

To get an idea of the job awaiting him, the ingredients for 8,000 cupcakes include 130 kilos of flour, 105 kilos of sugar, 105 kilos of oil, 50 kilos of eggs and 25 kilos of milk powder.

“It will be a long time before I bake another cupcake for myself” he said to SR.

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