9.5 High-Fat Structure and Gastric Emptying

A higher-fat food structure may slow Gastric Emptying Speed physiologically. This must be separated from pathological gastric motility disorder.

Fat slows gastric emptying through digestive timing and downstream handling. Slower is not automatically worse. Excessive slowing with vomiting shifts to boundary assessment.

Do not reduce Feline FBM to “fat slows stomach.” Backtrace returns to upstream food structure—not to high-fat diet slogans.

Fat dominance, physical form, ingredient state.

Physiological timing modulation.

Linked delay effect on hair passage.

Fat Processing Rate downstream accommodation.

upstream food structure (fat-structured timing)

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physiological gastric emptying delay

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hair residence time / entanglement probability

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stool passage or regurgitation output

Occasional hairball vomiting vs frequent vomiting must be read as output frequency, not as proof that fat structure is inherently wrong.