Low Fat Dolphins

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Dolphins at a Japanese marine park are going on a low fat diet after developing pot bellies and failing to look sharp in their aquatic performances.

Kinosaki Marine World in western Japan said Tuesday that all its 19 dolphins have been on a low fat diet since late August, when they started failing to hit jumping targets and keep upright while treading water.

"We were puzzled by their poor performance, then we noticed they looked rounder," said park spokesman Haruo Imazu.

Keepers measured their weight and found all had gotten plumper, some up to 22 pounds heavier just during the summer.

All had the same menu — about 31 pounds of mackerel mixed with some white fish — but keepers found the mackerels had gotten fattier, adding too many calories for the dolphins.

Keepers immediately put them on a weight loss program, feeding them more white fish and less fatty mackerels, while instituting a routine exercise regime, Imazu said.

Less fat and moderate exercise seemed to be working, he said.

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This just seems so wrong, cutting fatty fish from a dolphins diet to help them lose weight instead of basic calorie control and/or increasing exercise closer to the level they would experience in the wild. They've basically taken a flawed principle of human nutrition and decided this was the best way to go for these dolphins. They've even picked the old dietary favourite of cutting one aspect of the diet and increasing another.

[CosmicFish]

Tabata bodyweight squats would get them in shape far more quickly.

[Ripped Barbarian]

A drop in fat means an increase in protein and probably overall calorie deficit, it's less efficient for them to get energy from protein.

They will lose weight.

They wouldn't have gotten fat in the first place being stuck in a tank and prob fed incorrectly.