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Cat Food – The Best, The Healthiest, The Most Nutritious

Posted by admin on July 1, 2011 None comments

We humans have a capacity of extremes. There are those of us who are honest to the letter and there are those of us who are equally dishonest. Stress often plays an important part of being dishonest, especially for a struggling businessman desperately trying to provide for his family.

Then there are those who are just plain greedy and don’t care how they arrive at their fortune as long as they do.

Luckily, in most countries, there is now a system in place that ensures a basic (some might say very basic) standard that all manufacturers or suppliers of human food must meet.

Sadly this is either not the case for animal feed, or the standards are so low as to be useless.

So despite all the pretty advertising, all the logically convincing and reassuring words from your vet, chances are, if you’re feeding your cat a processed cat food, you’re directly contributing to her ill health.

The big brand names in cat food contribute financially to veterinary colleges, which explains why vets surgery reception areas are now piled high with these brands. But does it spell quality?

To find out we need to look at what’s in processed cat food. Most fresh meat goes for human consumption as more money can be made there. So pet food tends to get the dregs. Dregs can include meat meal or meat by-products (chicken feet, feathers, hair, skin, intestinal waste (poo to you and me), general slaughterhouse wastes), meat not considered safe (spoiled or toxic) or desirable for human consumption, fat, diseased carcasses (which may be far from fresh), including euthanised animals.

To bulk this out, low cost carbohydrates are used, which can include sugar, propylene glycol, leftover fast food, mouldy and rancid grain deemed unsuitable for human consumption, corn syrup, non-nutritive fillers such as sawdust or newspaper and so forth.

So the cat food starts out as low quality, too low in digestible protein essential to a cats well being, too high in fat, too high in carbohydrates and possibly poisonous – 100 Bald and Golden Eagles in North America have died recently from eating a euthanised animal.

Then the ‘food’ is cooked, usually at very high temperatures. Cooking destroys many nutrients which are essential for good health. Cats evolved by killing and eating their food instantly, showing that freshness is essential for a cats overall good health.

To address this, the cat food manufacturers add synthetic nutrients. Synthetic nutrients are isolated and not easily digested by anyone let alone your cat. So a label reassuringly boasting of a ‘nutritionally complete’ or ‘scientific’ diet are purposefully vague as neither are true. Unqualified claims are legally acceptable in most countries with their poor or non-existent pet food regulations.

As this resultant cat food doesn’t look very appealing, colour is added (Red 40, Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Blue 2), obviously for your benefit as I doubt your cat cares much about the colour of cat food.

Now, most processed food is in a dry or semi dry form. This means that you have to preserve the food to keep it. If you purchase any meat product that keeps longer than a couple of days in the fridge, you know it has preservative in.

Some common preservatives include disodium guanylate, butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA), menadione sodium bisulfite complex (a very controversial synthetic vitamin K.), mixed-tocopherols (synthetic form of Vitamin E) and others considered unfit for human consumption.

All processed food is ‘dead’ food, with no life. Dead food is that which has been cooked, particularly at high temperature and for long periods.

So you might think that buying cat food direct from a pet food supplier or butcher might be the answer. A quality butcher I buy from once told me that most pet mince sold at butchers is all the excess fat they can’t use, mixed with beetroot juice. On further inspection of the pet mince in discussion, I didn’t doubt him.

I read recently of someone buying from a pet shop. As she walked up to the shop from the car park, she noticed a pickup truck loaded down with large boxes marked poultry. On closer inspection she saw they contained pre-packaged chicken pieces. Fresh chicken sitting in boxes, in the hot summer sun, not on ice, not in a refrigerated truck, but in the back of an open pick up truck waiting to be carried into the store for sale to consumers.

What is the Best Dog Food?

Posted by admin on June 30, 2011 None comments

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind. Without question, the best dog food is one which is based on a wild dog’s diet. Dogs have evolved on this. It’s raw meat. There are no cookers in nature.

People are reluctant to believe this for a variety of reasons. So lets look at some of them, and dispel your fears.

Firstly, you may be worried about the presence os parasites and worms in raw meat. It’s been drummed into you that meat needs to be cooked to kill them off.

I can assure you, that dogs digestion is robust. They have no trouble with worms and parasites in raw meat. They have evolved to deal with this. What they haven’t evolved to deal with is cooked food, high fat content, preservatives, pathogens in cooked food, poor quality filler and the low grade food which passes for dog food.

Secondly, you may be concerned about bones perforating an internal organ.

Dogs evolved by crunching up on raw bones. They have absolutely no problem with raw bones, as long as they are raw and they gnaw them. If you have more than one dog and they gobble the bone down to ensure the other doesn’t get it, they may suffer some discomfort while the bone passes through their digestive system, but it won’t do more than cause them discomfort. So ensure your dog gnaws the bone in peace.

The other problem is with cooked bones. These can perforate your dog’s internal organs. Cooked bones are a definite no-no when working out the ingredients for the best dog food.

Thirdly, you may think feeding your dog a raw food diet is expensive. After all, the connotation ‘best dog food’ looks expensive.

It depends on what you take into consideration. If you are feeding your dog the cheapest brand of dog food from the supermarket, and don’t have any ailments treated, then you may be right. If you do, I doubt you’re reading this. So lets suppose you feed your dog a medium priced commercial dog food and do use the services of a veterinarian or other health professional, for ailments your dog may suffer.

Raw dog food is nutrient dense. Commercial dog food is nutrient poor. So you need to feed much more commercial dog food to come anywhere near (and it never comes close) to providing the decent diet that raw meat does. Which means you need much less volume of raw food compared with commercial dog food.

Then, if you include the fees you spend on health care, there’s no comparison. Commercial pet food keeps veterinarians wealthy. They hardly see the healthy dogs fed on raw meat, nature’s best dog food.

Fourthly, you may think that the purchase and preparation of the best dog food there is, is too much like hard work. You think it may be too big a hassle.

I’ve taken the hassle out of it, by telling you how to do it without making the mistakes I did.

Fifthly, you may think you dog doesn’t like raw food.

Have you ever tried? With decent food, I mean? I can assure you, there is no dog alive who doesn’t recognise the raw food as the best dog food. If you’re overfeeding your dog, he may refuse it initially. And if you leave food out all day, that’s likely. Keep in mind too, many commercial dog food manufacturers add appetite stimulants to the food. This may cause a short term problem, while he adapts.

Lastly, you may be concerned that you don’t know enough to be able to get the nutritional needs of your dog correct. After all, that’s what’s pushed by veterinarians and commercial dog food manufacturers – you don’t know enough. Just because the packet tells you this brand is ‘recommended by top vets’ or that brand is ‘scientific’, doesn’t mean they are selling the best dog food. Quite the opposite, in fact.

I can tell you from experience, it’s not as difficult as they make out. You do need to know some important facts, but once you’ve opened your mind to allowing your own inner wisdom to emerge, and by following certain natural laws, you’ll have no problem working it out.

If everyone started feeding their dog raw meat, many, many veterinarians would go out of business.

What are you waiting for?

Choose Best Professional Gym Equipment For a Healthy Life

Posted by admin on June 3, 2011 None comments

Taking a look at the recent trends in the fitness world, people are more inclined towards buying home gym equipment Canada. Before you hop on the first machine that you come across, you need to make sure that you know your requirements in detail. It is easy to get any fitness equipment found at gym for your home and start exercising. But you should understand how to use the machine properly without risk of injuring yourself. Instead of a collection different equipment, You’ll find whole body vibration equipment fits that every category.

The vibration machine has proved to be the best home gym equipment in recent times. It consists of standing or sitting upon a platform. The platform vibrates with different speeds set by you as you exercise. It helps in burning additional calories, increases muscle tone and recruits more muscle activity when compared with conventional training methods. It is a natural phenomenon that occurs due to the contraction and relaxation of muscles. Muscles become engaged while you simply stabilize your body in various poses.

Once you are out in the market to buy home gym equipment Canada, you will find different models, makers and prices. The choice you have to make on the basis of your need. While examining the machine, determine the mechanism- oscillating, tri-planer, and horizontal. Knowing the mechanism, next carefully examine the model and look for weak points. Perhaps, you have decided the model and the retailer. Test the equipment. Operate the equipment to maximum intensity, listen closely to the noise generated by the machine. Select the model that has a reasonably comfortable sound quality during operation( both in volume and pitch). Get the specifications of the model from the retailer and check them if they fulfill your needs. If your basic purpose is to use it for weight loss, buy the fitness machine with this thought in mind. Make sure that the components are made of better steel. Try one or two exercises before giving a final nod to the retailer for purchase.

Ask the representative about the life of the motor. Research online and utilize customer reviews to see how the machine holds up over time with prolonged usage and how it has benefited people. To get best home gym equipment is an investment a worth, so take your time and decide.

Weight Loss Diet Plan – Best Way to Shed Excess Body Fat

Posted by admin on May 27, 2011 None comments

If you are like among many others, constantly racking your brain for the best diet plan there is that will fit your body and satisfy your desire to shed off a few if not a lot of pounds, then I hope this article will be of some help to you.

What mainly motivates you to lose weight? You have to know your motivation and it has to be clear in your head. This is a very vital part in the process of losing weight. Your motivation is as important as it will be your driving force in getting results.

I am sure you are well aware of the many weight loss programs out there. There are so many books, procedures and product to cater to every person, gender, occupation, age and race. Make sure you choose the right one that suits you best. Consider your lifestyle and your body’s state and choose a diet program that won’t be an impossible feat given your time and physical capabilities.

If your aim is to have abs, a lean stomach, thin things and curvaceous hips, a six pack, then you know that you cannot attain that with just diet. Exercise is the way to do it. You are going to need exercise even after you have shed pounds since when you start to shed off the pounds, your skin will tend to have this saggy appearance due to fat loss. So exercise complements a good and healthy diet. It should become a habit even after you have reached your ideal weight.

Eat healthy. Try going organic. There is no dearth in organic products out on the market today. Organic food is food produced without the aid of fertilizers and chemical products. Organic food is authentic and therefore what nature has to offer in its pure state. Food produced otherwise is laden with chemicals that can accumulate in the body and clogs your body from functioning and sometimes even results in cancer-causing tumors. So along with exercise, you better take note to eat healthy. Can you imagine working out and still eating the same amount of unhealthy food? It is as good as useless. You are working yourself to the bone to get rid of something that you continually feed your body.

The best diet plan does not involve pills that give the promise of weight loss. The best diet plan revolves around taking good care of your body, the way you ought to. Gaining weight is just your body’s response to your harmful ways. Remember, your bodily reactions are your defenses. Trust in your body and start living healthy. With this as your motivation, it is not impossible and is even something you should be doing. With exercise and eating healthy, pat yourself on the back and congratulate yourself. You are well on your way to a new you.