Author
Prasanna Muralidharan
Recent research
- BiologyOpen access
A daily adequacy check asks whether one bowl meets a requirement. It cannot answer the two questions that matter over a feeding lifetime: whether adequacy survives the day-to-day variation of a real diet once tissue stores are allowed to buffer it, and whether the nutrients that...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
This paper discloses in full the allometric energy model that sizes the daily nutrient target for a residual micronutrient correction, and traces the provenance of every constant in it. Daily maintenance energy is sized as MER = 98 · BW^0.64 · M for dogs and 90 · BW^0.67 · M for...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Standard regulatory compliance models evaluate companion-animal diets with a single scalar test: does each nutrient clear a defined floor? That test is indifferent to the source of the nutrient and to the long-term appropriateness of the food supplying it. We argue that the quali...
- BiologyOpen access
A diet can be adequate on day one and unsafe over a year, and it can be safe at the label dose and unsafe when an owner doubles it. This paper addresses both questions with models that are deliberately separate from the stochastic adequacy framework, because they answer different...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Fresh, home-cooked diets for cats and dogs are biologically appealing but, evaluated against an established nutrient standard, are routinely incomplete. A residual-correction approach — a biologically appropriate fresh base plus a calculated micronutrient correction — can close t...
- BiologyOpen access
A diet can be adequate on day one and unsafe over a year, and it can be safe at the label dose and unsafe when an owner doubles it. This paper addresses both questions with models that are deliberately separate from the stochastic adequacy framework, because they answer different...
- BiologyOpen access
A daily adequacy check asks whether one bowl meets a requirement. It cannot answer the two questions that matter over a feeding lifetime: whether adequacy survives the day-to-day variation of a real diet once tissue stores are allowed to buffer it, and whether the nutrients that...