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“Many factors can lead to cancer. Impurities in water, food, and air; immunosuppressive drugs; and poor nutrition all play a major role.” Dr. Henry Pasternak DVM., C.V.A.
“Every day, a pet living on most commercial-brand foods absorbs not the “complete and balanced nutrition” intended for him but a host of toxins that his body must struggle to expel.” Dr. Martin Goldstein., D.V.M.
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Proper Nutrition is the Foundation for Healthy Life One of the best ways to increase your dog’s health is to feed him a better diet. “You are what you eat” and you get what you pay for! Have you ever wondered how a 40 lb bag of commercial dog food can cost $15-20? That is 37 to 50 cents a pound! The images that commercial pet food advertisement promulgates are a bit deceiving. Instead of whole chicken they can legally substitute it for chicken heads, feet, intestines and bowels. Prime beef chunks have been replaced by cow brains, tongue, esophagus, ears and other parts not fit for human consumption. Another "iffy" term is by-products. They contain little meat or poultry, and are actually the parts left over after all the meat has been stripped from the bone (heads, feet, beaks, feathers, stomach, bones, blood, intestines and also substances such as abscesses and cancerous material). Glandular tissue may contain high levels of hormones, which may cause serious health problems including cancer. Unlike bacteria and viruses they are not destroyed by the high temperature or pressure-cooking. Since dogs and specially cats are CARNIVORES grains are considered by holistic vets as detrimental to our pets health. Most of the grains used are also not fit for human consumption and have not been tested for impurities such as mold or pesticides. Check the label of your pets food, grains and by-product are quite probably the first 5 ingredients; therefore constitute more that 70-80% of the food. Most holistic vets are convinced that grains are the culprits for the epidemic of food allergies and OBESITY in the pet population. The canning and high temperature cooking to manufacture kibble to sterilize and destroy microbes also destroy the nutrients. This is also done to prolong shelf life. The cooking process will denaturalize most proteins and vitamins as well as the enzymes necessary for digestion. If you eat a raw apple, it contains the enzymes necessary for you to digest it, so your pancreas works less. If you cook it, the enzymes will be destroyed and your body has to work extra to synthesize those enzymes. Raw foods have a vital energy that cooked/processed foods lack. If you burry a cooked potato it will rot, if you burry a fresh potato you will get a plant! To compensate for losses in the cooking process vitamins, minerals and amino acids are added. But these synthetic vitamins are not absorbed by the body as well as vitamins that are obtained through a natural diet. Vitamins are extremely complex organic substances needed in small amounts in the diet. Real vitamins are too complex to develop in a test tube and put in a bottle – even with modern technological advances. REAL vitamins can only be obtained from FOODS containing whole nutritional complexes. The body can then choose the nutrients it needs for assimilation and excrete what it does not need. As if that was not enough, harmful chemical preservatives and other artificial additives like food coloring are intentionally added by the manufacturer while others come from herbicides, insecticides and pesticides used by farmers to boost crop yields. About 60% of all herbicides, 90% of all fungicides and 30% of all insecticides are considered to be cancer causing. Many pet foods advertised as preservative free, do in fact, contain preservatives, as manufacturers are not obliged by law to list the preservatives they did not add themselves! BHT and BHA are two well known CARGINOGENS used as preservatives in both animal and human food. If you now wonder how your pets eat this junk, food manufacturers have cleverly devised a way! spraying fat or digest on the kibble that acts as a binder for other flavor enhancers like salt and sugar (corn syrup). Just like us, cats and dogs are naturally attracted to sweet and salty foods. You can boost your pet’s health profoundly by changing his diet from unhealthy, commercial-brand to REAL FOOD! He will be better able to cope with environmental stress caused by products that you need to give like drugs and topical insecticides and vaccines. Only fresh, raw, minimally processed foods can provide all the essential known and unknown micronutrients necessary for optimal health. All of out clients that have switched their pets to a Natural Raw diet have reported the following benefits:
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