COMMERCIAL DOG FOODS
- Have loads of starches because they have grains as their main ingredient
- Have heaps of simple sugars (added to act as a preservative and make the food more appetising/appealing)
- Also Fibre - mostly from grains which is insoluble
- There is mounting evidence that suggest modern-starch and sugar-rich dog foods are hostile to a dogs heath
- Dogs fed on processed and cooked foods lack essential fatty acids (causing itchy skin)
- Practically all commercial dry dog foods are based on rice and beef and no oil is added
- Modern diets suffer from ‘allergic’ conditions eg: inflammatory skin problems & arthritis
- Contain excessively high quantities of poor quality protein which has low levels of certain essential amino acids and is not easy to digest
- Dry dog foods – unable to digest or absorb the protein easily
- Have a protein excess – 4x more than required
- Causes kidney problems in an adult dog fed regularly over a lifetime
- Excess calcium
- Provides poor availability of zinc, iron, copper, etc and other vital trace minerals including Chromium & Selenium
- Excess Salt – causing hypertension and cardiovascular disease
- Excess Phosphorus – causing old age kidney failure
- Barely adequate vitamin levels – if not enough
- The cause of much ill health – nothing diagnosable, just a dog that is not as active, bright or happy as it should be
- More prone to parasites (such as fleas and worms) and infectious diseases
- Cause dogs to age early – suffering a multitude of degenerative disease problems, such as cancer, arthritis, skin diseases, kidney disease, heart disease.
- Leads to problems reproducing
- Faeces passed stink, are mushy and stain the concrete
WHY DO COMMERICAL DOG FOODS LACK VITAMINS?
- Made from a limited number of ingredients, containing mostly cooked grain and grain by-products, cooked animals and animal by-products, plus some vitamin and mineral supplements
- Many vitamins are destroyed by heat
- Many vitamins are destroyed by the presence of the mineral supplements (made worse by cooking)
- The added “extra” vitamins are not enough to be made abundant
- Especially dry dog food – the vitamins are lost if the food is not consumed soon after manufacture and made worse in poor condition of storage including heat, light, moisture and being left open to the air
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