Is Your Dog A Canary?
June 4th 2007 18:50
I delight when an expert gets around to confirming what I have felt certain was true. Recently this occurred when a wellness oriented doctor mentioned that the dog food you feed you dog may not be doing the dog any good.
The MD's point was that your dog is a carnivore and yet pet food is chocked full of carbohydrate rich grains. Obviously, the manufactures of dry dog food know that a 100% meat food would be very expensive and so most unlikely to be sold.Their solution is to load up dog food with filler carbs that can be stored easily and sold at a more attractive price. It also means that your dog is on a high carbohydrate diet.
Let me be more specific. Odds are that both you and your dog are on a high carbohydrate diet. Not only that,but odds are pretty good that you and your dog share a lifestyle which is likely, if you are average, to be more sedentary and leisure intensive than anything else. You may well ride in a car in order to sit at a desk at work every day,while you leave your dog to lounge about the house. Maybe in the evenings you give your dog a brief walk, but probably not every night. You convince yourself that the dog has, after all, a big yard in which to frolic, although you rarely see such behavior.
What you are doing is virtually anesthetizing your poor canine. He/she is inert too much and being forced to consume a high carbohydrate diet , when the carnivore that he is has a natural craving for protein. If your dog is like millions in the US he/she is fat. Is there any wonder? What alternative does the dog have? Soon the poor beast will start to develop a number of physical ailments that are directly attributable to this life he has been forced to live. You will have to watch as he endures heart trouble etc and dies, sometimes prematurely. Sad to say the least.
The fact is that your dog may be the proverbial canary in the mine shaft for you. I think you get my point. You and your dog are not so biologically different that you can ignore the effects of a similar lifestyle on him. He is eating the wrong things and so are you.He does little exercise and neither do you. Because his lifespan is much shorter than yours, he is showing you every day what the effects of all this will be on you. You need to consider that diet inactivity is killing you. You should reduce your sugar and flour intake. You need to consider more protein and thus lower caloric intake. You ought to be looking at more exercise too. And be a good person and give your dog a lifestyle break also. Your servant, as always.
The MD's point was that your dog is a carnivore and yet pet food is chocked full of carbohydrate rich grains. Obviously, the manufactures of dry dog food know that a 100% meat food would be very expensive and so most unlikely to be sold.Their solution is to load up dog food with filler carbs that can be stored easily and sold at a more attractive price. It also means that your dog is on a high carbohydrate diet.
Let me be more specific. Odds are that both you and your dog are on a high carbohydrate diet. Not only that,but odds are pretty good that you and your dog share a lifestyle which is likely, if you are average, to be more sedentary and leisure intensive than anything else. You may well ride in a car in order to sit at a desk at work every day,while you leave your dog to lounge about the house. Maybe in the evenings you give your dog a brief walk, but probably not every night. You convince yourself that the dog has, after all, a big yard in which to frolic, although you rarely see such behavior.
What you are doing is virtually anesthetizing your poor canine. He/she is inert too much and being forced to consume a high carbohydrate diet , when the carnivore that he is has a natural craving for protein. If your dog is like millions in the US he/she is fat. Is there any wonder? What alternative does the dog have? Soon the poor beast will start to develop a number of physical ailments that are directly attributable to this life he has been forced to live. You will have to watch as he endures heart trouble etc and dies, sometimes prematurely. Sad to say the least.
The fact is that your dog may be the proverbial canary in the mine shaft for you. I think you get my point. You and your dog are not so biologically different that you can ignore the effects of a similar lifestyle on him. He is eating the wrong things and so are you.He does little exercise and neither do you. Because his lifespan is much shorter than yours, he is showing you every day what the effects of all this will be on you. You need to consider that diet inactivity is killing you. You should reduce your sugar and flour intake. You need to consider more protein and thus lower caloric intake. You ought to be looking at more exercise too. And be a good person and give your dog a lifestyle break also. Your servant, as always.
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