The-Truth-About-Pet-Foods

DIET-RELATED TOOTH ALIGNMENT
Tooth alignment in a cat
raised on a natural, raw
meat-based diet.
Severe tooth malalignment
in a cat raised on
processed food.
Fig. 42. The ten-year Pottenger Cat Study, in which over 900 cats
were included for several generations, showed that even dentofacial
structure is severely and negatively affected by replacing the raw, natural
diet with cooked foods.
superiority of non-heated, natural food for cats (Fig. 42 & 43). 1
Anthropological studies worldwide have demonstrated that updated diets
eaten by primitive people result in lost health once industrialized society
introduces the modern processed marvels of white sugar, white flour, white
salt and white oils (the four white poisons). 1-2
The goal should be to mimic, as closely as possible, the archetypal
(the original, primitive) diet and use ingredients that are nutrient-dense
(containing naturally high levels of all nutrients) and unaltered “from the
vine.” It is, of course, not possible to achieve this goal perfectly other than
by releasing the pet into the wild. Short of this, however, there is much
that a pet owner can do in their own kitchen, as well as in the selection of
a pet food, that recognizes the limitations of knowledge and builds foods
accordingly.
1. Pottenger FM, Pottenger’s Cats: A Study in Nutrition, 1983. Price W, Nutrition
and Physical Degeneration, 1982.
2. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen, 2000; 120(1):78-82. Sante, 2002; 12(1):45-55. Nutr
Rev, 1999; 57(11):341-9. Arch Mal Coeur Vaiss, 1997; 90(7):981-5. J Nutr,
2001; 131(3):866S-870S. Med J Aust, 1993; 159(4):266-70.
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