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FEEDING HEALTHILY
Cooking – frying, baking, boiling, heating in any manner – severely
alters food. Most significantly, high heat kills the food in the sense
that valuable enzymes are destroyed, and vitamins, minerals, amino
acids, essential fatty acids and various other micronutrients are altered,
depleted, or lost completely. Worse yet, heat can initiate chemical reactions,
which can turn perfectly wonderful foods into toxins such as carcinogens.*
The old adage “an apple a day…” is more important now, perhaps
than ever before, since we could literally go a lifetime eating packaged
pseudo-foods and never touch upon the health-enhancing nutrition available
only through raw foods such as the fresh apple. Fortunately, with
increasing awareness and cynicism toward packaged products, many
people are feeding themselves and their families more carefully by seeking
fresh vegetables, fruits, meats and whole grain products.
But what happens to the family pet Are cats and dogs – mammals
like us – so physiologically different from us that they don’t have the same
need for freshness in the diet Common sense would tell us that they
aren’t different at all. But what about the pet food manufacturers’ strong
caution against supplementing their “balanced and 100% complete” foods
with anything else, for fear of upsetting the delicate balance of their
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Disease, 1990. Wysong Health Letter, “Nutrient Loss During Processing,”
1997; 11(11):1. Wysong Health Letter, “Processing,” 1989; 3(1). Wysong
Health Letter, “The Fragility of Vitamins,” 1997; 11(10). Wysong Health Letter,
“Ubiquitious B Vitamin Deficiency,” 1997; 11(12). Wysong Health Letter,
“Dangers in Cooked and Cured Meats,” 1994; 8(6). Wysong Health Letter,
“Glycosylation,” 1990; 4(1). Wysong Health Letter, “Potato Vitamin Loss,”
1992; 6(12). Wysong RL, “Biotic Means Life,” 2002. J Am Med Assoc,
1990; 263(1):35. Environ Mol Mutagen, 2002; 39(2-3):112-8. J Food Sci,
1992:1136. Feedtech, May 1997:39-43. J Agric Food Chem, 2002; 50(6):1647-
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