The Carnivore Connection to Nutrition in Cats

Debra Zoran describes in detail what it means metabolically and nutritionally to be a strict carnivore, with a focus on the differences in the nutritional biochemistry of cats.

 

Her scholarly piece, published in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, also includes information on the possible roles of nutrition in the development of obesity, idiopathic hepatic lipidosis, inflammatory bowel disease, and diabetes mellitus in cats. She details the roles of protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and water in a cats diet and stresses that diet plays a crucial role, along with genetic and environmental factors, in the prevalence of many of the diseases that afflict cats today.

 

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