Nutrition - Dog Food or Junk Food For a long time Ive felt, believed and experienced that nutrition is key to health.
Maybe not immediately but definitely it will add up to a toxic level and cause poor health.
No one or being lives forever, obviously, however we want to extend the time we have and make the time we have a healthy one.
During my hundreds and hundreds of hours research in investigating dog foods I found the most remarkable things.
Some of what I found was shocking and other facts were down right disgusting.
For starters, the dog food industry is totally unregulated meaning that manufacturers can, and do, put whatever they want into food.
There are documented reports of animal waste products, ground up dog carcasses, and other animal wastes put into dog foods.
Among the ingredients in about 99.99% of dog foods you find sugar, salt, corn, phosphates, artificial flavors and colorings.
It appears as if the simple dog food has turned into a fast food garbage dump.
Dogs are naturally carnivores and scavengers however since their domestication they have relied on a lot of human help in the nutrition arena.
As we have moved from fresh foods to processed foods so have our dogs.
Just like us our dogs have now inherited human like modern diseases.
Veterinarian Dr Jane Bicks has written that dogs should be living in the range of 18-25 years old.
This has been supported by friends of mine from other countries where dogs who eat closer to the earth commonly live to those ages.
Basically we are killing our dog with processed foods.
I must admit to having certain biases based upon personal experience, knowledge about health, and what Ive learned.
There is a lot of literature on the inability of animals to assimilate fractioned nutrition.
What is fractionated nutrition? It is vitamins and supplements.
Check the super market or even some of the premium dog food brands and youll find them packed with vitamins and supplements.
That doesnt mean they are good! Let me explain.
The processing of and extracting of nutritional value causes molecular differences between food and these vitamins.
Here are list of some of the things you loose with fractionated vitamins over foods: compound vitamins and minerals, trace minerals, enzymes, flavonoids, carotenoids, pigments, terpenes, chlorophyll, coenzymes, covitamins, amino acids and much more.
Animals arent designed to consume fractionated nutrition.
The concept that altered nutrition fulfills the bodys requirements is false.
The movement toward providing dogs with raw and pure foods is a fantastic one.
As a dog owner I know it can be rough to provide and shop for my dogs like they are humans but it is necessary for them to be healthy and live long lives.
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