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assure animal owners that optimal health will be maintained if these
products are fed exclusively over a lifetime. In fact, foods passing such
tests have caused serious, even fatal, nutritional diseases. Examples
include mycotoxemia, as well as imbalances in zinc, potassium, and
taurine. Additionally, there is evidence of degenerative diseases that
arise later in life – obesity, periodontitis, cancer, arthritis, autoimmunities,
hormone imbalance, organ disease, digestive problems, cataracts,
skin disorders, and susceptibility to infection – directly related to
feeding processed foods exclusively. Health may be fine during a shortterm
feeding study or while animals have the vigor of youth, but this
apparent nutritional adequacy is deceptive, obscuring the relationship
of later life diseases to processed foods (see pages 12-16, 140-141).
8. If a pet has an allergy, this can be cured by eliminating pet foods
that contain the offending ingredient and buying a new special
allergy formula pet diet.
FALSE. The cause of modern pet food allergy is not a pet food
ingredient. The cause is a compromised immune system resulting from
a compromised modern life-style, and singularly fed, manufactured
diets. Seldom does a pet have an allergy to the singular ingredients for
which they test positive, if these ingredients are fed fresh, raw and
whole. When pet foods are manufactured, the ingredients are altered
and complexed into new forms of chemical combinations for which it
is impossible to predict sensitivity. The only way to know if an animal
is sensitive or allergic to a food is to feed it (see pages 48-49).
9. The more digestible a food is, the better that food is.
FALSE. To a degree this is true of course, but if percent of
digestibility is the key to good nutrition then that would mean that a
100% digestible diet – zero fecal output – would be the best diet of all.
This is, of course, absurd. Animals need some bulk and indigestible
material for a properly functioning digestive tract. A small, firm, hard
stool that is easy for owners to discard does not necessarily equate with
good nutrition or health (see pages 11-12).
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