A high protein diet helps:

- maintain muscle mass more effectively than a traditional diet,

- maintain a high palatability,

- give a feeling of satiety.

For a equal metabolisable energy level, proteins provide 30% less net energy than carbohydrates.

L-carnitine promotes the transport of fat into the mitochondria.

Increasing the urine volume reduces simultaneously the saturation of urine with struvite and calcium oxalate. This promotes a urinary environment unfavourable to development of both struvite and calcium oxalate uroliths.