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Cat Health News Articles
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| Posted: 19th August 2004 |
| Obesity in Cats |
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Obese cats can predispose to Diabetes, Hepatic Lipidosis and arthritisOverweight and actually obese cats outnumber cats of normal weigh and are being seen more and more commonly by veterinarians for various disordersWeight loss plans in cats needs to be approached very carefullyThis page will help you determine what to do about overweight cats so that your kitty won't have to be encumbered by obesity.
There are more cats than dogs in the USA at this timeAnd 40 percent of those cats are considered to be obese! Only 5 to 10 percent of all cats can be classified as only slightly overweightIn recent years Feline Diabetes Mellitus (diabetes) has become almost a daily diagnosis in animal hospitals all across AmericaOur cats are at risk for a number of obesity related disordersDocumented research indicates obese cats are far more prone than cats of normal body weight to Diabetes, arthritis and a very serious disorder called Hepatic LipidosisAnd the 40 percent obesity figure seems to be growing.
So what is happening that predisposes our domestic felines to a life of sedentary obesity? The answer is multifactorial but to simplify, just remember this… any individual mammal (dog, cat, horse, human, etc.) will gain body weight if it consumes more calories than it burns as fuel for energyThat’s pretty simple, but trueIn Nature, food acquisition has never been a sure thing for any creature… not for canines, felines or humansSo food acquisition has always been accompanied by physical exertion to capture (or cultivate) and consume the food. It is only in recent times that the unnatural situation of food excess, readily acquired and consumed with little accompanying physical exertion, has become a way of lifeWe humans have figured how not to have to do all that work of capturing and cultivating to build up stores of foodThrough agricultural expertise we have learned how to grow food and raise livestock and to have those food sources readily available and in abundance… just in case we get hungry! We learned how to refrigerate, dry, preserve and store foods in large quantities that assured us we would not have to endure long and unsuccessful hunting forays nor suffer through famines. |
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