Good nutrition isn't just about the ingredients – it's about the right balance of nutrients. Feeding a cat food that has an improper nutritional balance can either lead to or worsen a wide range of health issues.

Protein:

• Too Little: poor growth
• Too Much: can exacerbate existing kidney disease

Fat:

• Too Little: flaky skin
• Too Much: obesity leading to diabetes

Sodium:

• Too Little: inability to maintain water balance. Anorexia, fatigue, hair loss
• Too Much: hypertension, heart conditions, constipation, seizures

Calcium:

• Too Little: spontaneous fractures
• Too Much: bladder stones

Phosphorous:

• Too Little: poor growth. dull coat.
• Too Much: hardening of soft tissue; hyperparathyroidism

Dietary Fiber:

• Too Little: constipation
• Too Much: constipation

Vitamins:

• Too Little: anorexia, poor growth, rickets (vitamin D)
• Too Much: hypercalcemia (vitamin D) and skeletal deformities (vitamin A)

Magnesium:

• Too Little: anorexia, regarded growth, muscle weakness
• Too Much: struvite, bladder stones

The precisely balanced nutrition of all Hill's® Science Diet® cat foods falls within optimal range levels of all of the above nutrients.