to pre-infection food consumption and body weight similar to the control group (Byleveld, Pang, Clancy, & Roberts, 1999; Byleveld, Pang, Clancy, & Roberts, 2000). Importantly, other factors contribute to these opposite results, for example, an initial weight loss is typically observed when mice are supplemented with fish oil (Byleveld et al., 1999). In addition, tho