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. 2009 Nov 1;11(11):913–924. doi: 10.1016/j.jfms.2009.09.012

FIG 3.

FIG 3

Dietary phosphorus intake of dogs and cats eating commercial or renal therapeutic foods compared with the average Western diet of humans. Note that dogs and cats consume five and six times, respectively, as much phosphorus as the average human, which makes it difficult to achieve adequate dietary phosphorus restriction. Developed by the Nutrition Support Service, The Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine (http://vet.osu.edu/nssvet)