Hills prescription diet canine w/d

Hills prescription diet canine w/d is for the nutritional management of Obese Prone and Slightly Overweight dogs. Even minor weight problems can have an impact on your dogs health and energy levels. It's a problem that frequently begins with excessive calorie and fat intake as well as a lack of adequate exercise. 

Hills prescription diet canine w/d was formulated specifically to help manage dogs who are prone to gaining weight. Weight problems can lead to more serious conditions, including arthritis, heart disease, and diabetes. Hills Canine diet w/d is also useful as a nutritional aid for dogs with fibre responsive diseases such as diabetes mellitus, colitis, diarrhoea, constipation and struvite urolithiasis management in obese dogs.

Indications:
- Obesity prevention.
- Fibre-responsive diseases (i.e. diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidaemia, colitis or constipation).
- Lymphangiectasia.
- Hyperlipidaemia.
- Pancreatitis with concurrent hyperlipidaemia.
- Struvite urolithiasis prevention in obesity-prone dogs.

Nor recommended for:
• Cats.
• Puppies.
• Pregnant or lactating bitches.
• Dogs concurrently receiving urinary acidifiers.
• Dogs that are debilitated, underweight or dehydrated.

Hills prescription diet w/d key benefits:
Energy: Fat Reduced - Helps avoid weight gain and help lower lipid levels. 
Fibre: High - Obesity prevention, provides increased dietary bulk which aids satiety and avoids hunger. Diabetes mellitus: helps minimise blood glucose fluctuation, which may reduce insulin dosage.
Colitis: modifies bowel transit time.
Constipation: absorbs water and increases intestinal motility.  
L-Carnitine: Supplemented - Increases conversion of fat to energy. Helps maintain lean body mass.
Magnesium Phosphorus Protein:  Reduced - Decreases urinary concentration of struvite constituents,magnesium, ammonium (from protein), phosphate. 
Target urinary pH Acid: pH 6.2-6.4 - Discourages the formation and aggregation of struvite crystals.
Superior antioxidant formula:  Added - Reduces harmful free radicals, to help avoid chronic conditions.  

Please consult your veterinary surgeon before feeding your animal this