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2.3 Calorie Arithmetic Is Not Body-Condition Explanation
Canine Fat-Based Metabolism
This page is structured as definition, control variables, causal chain, observable outputs, and boundary, and serves as a canonical definition node in Canine FBM.
Calorie-Arithmetic Misreading is a structural node in Canine FBM, not a feeding label.
Body-condition stability cannot be fully explained by single-variable “intake minus expenditure” arithmetic.
Substrate architecture determines which energy pool is used.
Protein energy pressure determines tissue-maintenance risk.
Digestive tolerance determines whether the model is executable.
As input architecture and load conditions change, Calorie-Arithmetic Misreading shifts long-term scheduling pathways.
When variables converge, Canine FBM is more likely to keep higher fatty-acid contribution, controlled protein energy pressure, and stable body condition.
Same calories with different structure can produce different body-condition and stool outputs.
Low-energy decline can coincide with poorer activity tolerance.
This page does not reject calories; it rejects single-variable interpretation.
Body-condition interpretation must return to structure variables and boundary layers.