John Flanagan, PhD, discusses his team's study that shows that a high-protein, low-digestible-carbohydrate diet combined with controlled weight loss may improve diabetic remission rates in overweight ...

Why are so many of our cats now obese? The biggest change I have seen in the last 50 years of being around cats is in their lifestyle. The majority of cats are no longer farm animals that wander the ...

John Flanagan, PhD, explains how targeted caloric restriction produced high remission rates in overweight diabetic cats, while sharing clinic-ready strategies for weight reduction and glycemic control ...

Pet cats may be excellent animal models for the study of obesity origins and treatment in humans, a new study of feline gut microbes suggests -- and both species would likely get healthier in the ...

Studying the fattest of cats may help us understand how to treat obesity in humans. The shifts in feline gut microbiomes in response to changes in diet are very similar to those seen in humans, ...

A Cumberland Valley Animal Shelter representative answers readers' pet-related questions every week in "Ask the Shelter." A cat parent assumes her cat gets sick of eating the same food all the time, ...

Many house cats don't get enough exercise and become overweight. This was also the case with Remo, the cat of PETBOOK editor Louisa Stoeffler. In the following, she shares how she managed to help her ...

Pudgy with a purpose: Fat cats could help humans better understand the way gut bacteria influences conditions like obesity and Type 2 diabetes, a new study claims. Food-related changes in obese cats' ...