PMID- 25073483 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160201 LR - 20220408 IS - 1439-0396 (Electronic) IS - 0931-2439 (Linking) VI - 99 IP - 3 DP - 2015 Jun TI - Influence of dietary protein level on body composition and energy expenditure in calorically restricted overweight cats. PG - 474-82 LID - 10.1111/jpn.12239 [doi] AB - High-protein (HP) diets help prevent loss of lean mass in calorie-restricted (CR) cats. However, it is not entirely known whether these diets also induce changes of energy expenditure during periods of CR. To investigate this issue, sixteen overweight cats were fed either a high-protein [(HP), 54.2% of metabolizable energy (ME)] or a moderate-protein [(MP), 31.5% of ME] diet at 70% of their maintenance energy intakes for 8 weeks, and energy expenditure, energy intake, body weight and composition, and serum metabolites and hormones were measured. While both groups of cats lost weight at a similar rate, only cats eating the HP diet maintained lean mass during weight loss. Indirect respiration calorimetry measurements revealed that both total and resting energy expenditure (kcal/d) significantly decreased during weight loss for both treatment groups. However, only cats eating the MP diet exhibited significant decreases of total and resting energy expenditures after energy expenditure was normalized for body weight or lean mass. Results from this study suggest that in addition to sparing the loss of lean mass, feeding HP diets to overweight cats in restricted amounts may be beneficial for preventing or minimizing decreases of mass-adjusted energy expenditure during weight loss. CI - Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition (c) 2014 Blackwell Verlag GmbH. FAU - des Courtis, X AU - des Courtis X AD - Department of Molecular Biosciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, CA, USA. FAU - Wei, A AU - Wei A FAU - Kass, P H AU - Kass PH FAU - Fascetti, A J AU - Fascetti AJ FAU - Graham, J L AU - Graham JL FAU - Havel, P J AU - Havel PJ FAU - Ramsey, J J AU - Ramsey JJ LA - eng PT - Controlled Clinical Trial PT - Journal Article DEP - 20140730 PL - Germany TA - J Anim Physiol Anim Nutr (Berl) JT - Journal of animal physiology and animal nutrition JID - 101126979 RN - 0 (Dietary Proteins) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Body Composition/*drug effects MH - Caloric Restriction/*veterinary MH - Cat Diseases/*diet therapy MH - Cats MH - Dietary Proteins/*pharmacology MH - Energy Metabolism/*drug effects MH - Female MH - Male MH - Overweight/diet therapy/*veterinary MH - Specific Pathogen-Free Organisms MH - Weight-Bearing OTO - NOTNLM OT - energy restriction OT - feline OT - obesity OT - weight loss EDAT- 2014/07/31 06:00 MHDA- 2016/02/02 06:00 CRDT- 2014/07/31 06:00 PHST- 2013/12/17 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/07/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/07/31 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/07/31 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/02/02 06:00 [medline] AID - 10.1111/jpn.12239 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Anim Physiol Anim Nutr (Berl). 2015 Jun;99(3):474-82. doi: 10.1111/jpn.12239. Epub 2014 Jul 30.