Description

While talking to care givers about the best nutritional recommendation for their pet, inevitably nutrition calculations will be required to ensure the pet receives the correct amount of energy and nutrients each day. Nutrition calculations can feel difficult, complicated, and stressful particularly when doing them under the watchful eye of the pet care giver.
This session will break down each step of common nutrition calculations, giving practical advice to take the pain out of calculating a feeding quantity under pressure. Giving an accurate feeding recommendation to each pet increases success with meeting the nutrition goals and reassures the pet care giver you are the expert, trust source of nutritional information for their pet.

Learning Objectives

• 1. Understand the need for nutrition calculations over using food packaging information
• 2. Explore different energy calculations
• 3. Discuss how to make an appropriate calculation choice for each patient
• 4. Discuss ways of comparing diets to ensure nutritional requirements are met
• 5. Describe the advantages and disadvantages of calculations