Impact of time-limited feeding and dietary carbohydrate content on weight loss in group-housed cats
| Autor: | Frances S. Shofer, Urs Giger, Claudia Barbera, Donna A. Oakley, Amy Bader, Kathryn E. Michel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty Calorie Diet Reducing 040301 veterinary sciences Overweight Cat Diseases 0403 veterinary science Random Allocation 03 medical and health sciences Animal science Body condition score Weight loss Internal medicine Weight Loss Dietary Carbohydrates medicine Animals Obesity Small Animals Low carbohydrate Diet Fat-Restricted CATS business.industry 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences 030108 mycology & parasitology Dietary carbohydrate Treatment Outcome Endocrinology Cohort Cats medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery. 7:349-355 |
| ISSN: | 1532-2750 1098-612X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jfms.2005.05.003 |
| Popis: | Twenty-four adult cats were transitioned to time-limited feeding and randomized to either a dry low carbohydrate diet (LC) or a dry reduced energy diet (HC). In Trial 1 the LC and HC groups received equal amounts of food (by weight) for 13 weeks. Both groups consumed all food offered, hence the LC group received more energy/day than the HC group. In Trial 2 all cats were fed the LC diet for 12 weeks, but each group received the energy that the opposite group had received in Trial 1. In Trial 1 only the overweight HC cats (body condition score>6/9) experienced a significant change in body weight (−0.52±0.08 kg). In Trial 2, LC/Low Calorie overweight cats lost 0.62±0.10 kg, whereas, the LC/High Calorie normal weight cats gained 0.68±0.05 kg. In conclusion, body condition and energy intake but not type of diet influenced weight in this cohort of group-housed cats. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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