Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
See book keywords and concepts |  Think what would happen if you gave your dog a choice between a cheeseburger, fries, and a milkshake or dry dog food and water. Of course, most dogs would impulsively choose the tasty fast food and would completely ignore their nutritious dog food. If they were allowed to make this impulsive choice day after day, they would invariably become obese and die prematurely. Of course, we are all smarter than dogs, but if you want to get your weight under control, you must develop some nutritional wisdom and avoid impulse eating at all costs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  White rice seems to be the number one filler now in all dog food. Why would you feed a dog refined, white rice, and then wonder why they have diabetes?
You have some amazing ingredients like bitter melon extract. Wow, you normally do not see that in a pet formula. Can you talk about this product in terms of diabetes prevention?
Dr. Liers: Well actually, this product is identical to my human product, except it has liver flavor in it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  They'll use soybean in dog food. If you see soybean in your dog food, run. Dogs are missing an amino acid, which they need to break down and convert soybean into protein. All soybean does is create gas in the digestive system. It can actually cause a deadly condition called bloat, where the intestines swell up and twist over each other. This is fatal to dogs.
Mike: It blows my mind, when I'm looking at pet food in the grocery store, and I see these vegetarian pet foods. As a human, I'm vegetarian, and a lot of people are vegetarians. That's fine for a human, but for a pet? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  I can't put that much vitamin C in my dog food. My senior dog needed a lot more vitamin C. My adult dog needed 1,000 milligrams less a day than the puppies and the senior dog. You can address the individual needs of the pet and bring a total supplement that is going to help that animal more than one bag of dog food will.
We don't have puppy formula or senior formula for that reason. Most companies that have a senior or puppy food are only cleaning up their meat source from what they put in their adult formula. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
See book keywords and concepts |  It is a mild herb that can be added to dog food or horse feed. In cats, small amounts of tincture are the most easily used dosage form.
Eleuthero
Eleuthero (Eleutherococcus senticosus) increases energy, endurance, longevity, immunity, skin and muscle tone, and bone strength. It can be used in mature, elderly, convalescing, or chronically ill pets. It is an excellent mild tonic that relieves stress and improves resistance to infections. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  People have suddenly come to realize that brand-name dog food is so toxic that it will kill your dog, that toys from China contain dangerous levels of lead, that perfume products can contain as many as 21 different cancer-causing chemicals and that even popular laundry detergent products wash your clothes in a toxic brew of synthetic chemicals and artificial fragrances. Sites like NewsTarget and the Organic Consumers Association (www.OrganicConsumers.org) are, of course, trying to do something about this by educating consumers. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | We mix a little bit of Innova EVO dog food with the sardines. Then we add Rejuvenate! and maybe some chlorella or Living Fuel. We may also put in nutritional yeast, and other factors like chia seeds, vitamins, and minerals, depending on the day.
We love conjugated linoleic acid. We think CLA is wonderful. The big dog gets the CLA to build the muscles, and because she is old and she has trouble making it around. We are trying to build strength so she can continue to function.
We have around 150 products that we sell, between HPDI and 2Docs, Inc. We could go on talking for a long time. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | That's due to changes in the nutritional makeup of cheaper dog food products today that are using a lot of white rice as a filler (because white rice is cheap and makes the dog foods more profitable). But just as in human beings, white rice causes diabetes and obesity because it's a refined carbohydrate offering little more than "empty calories."
You can learn a lot about nutrition from your pets
When you look at pets, there is a direct relationship between foods and disease that is quite apparent. Part of the reason this is so apparent is because pets age much more quickly than human beings. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  Cereals, bread, milk, yoghurt, boiled sweets (hard candy), even dog food with added vitamins leave the supermarket shelves much faster than foods without them. Smokers, meat eaters, sugar addicts and people who drink too much alcohol can now continue enjoying their self-destructing habits without having to fear the dreaded vitamin deficiency, thanks to the blessed food industry. The magic food supplements have become an insurance policy against poor diet, and nobody has to feel guilty anymore over eating junk food. |
Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon
See book keywords and concepts | | Of course, most dogs would impulsively choose the tasty fast food and would completely ignore their nutritious dog food. If they were allowed to make this impulsive choice day after day, they would invariably become obese and die prematurely. Of course, we are all smarter than dogs, but if you want to get your weight under control, you must develop some nutritional wisdom and avoid impulse eating at all costs. Fortunately, with some easily acquired knowledge and a bit of planning, impulse eating can be a thing of the past. |
Ann N. Martin
See book keywords and concepts |  Super G—Chunk Style dog food, 16.4 ppb.
8. Heinz—Kibbles 'n Bits Beefy Bits, 25.1 ppb.
9. Dad's—Bite Size Meal Chicken and Rice, 8.4 ppb. 10. Pet Gold—Master Diet Puppy Formulation, 11.6 ppb.
The FDA/CVM noted that although some pet food formulations did test positive for sodium pentobarbital levels, they might be free of this drug now. Every lot of rendered material is composed of various animal tissues. Therefore, if the animals rendered today are cattle who have died in the field or roadkill, there would be no levels of sodium pentobarbital detected. | | Wayne Flory, DVM, from Texas A&M University responded that sodium pentobarbital may be used to euthanize some cattle and horses, however, he noted, "These animals are restricted from being rendered and used as a source of protein for cat and dog food."19
In Canada, Helene Chagon, DVM, with the Canadian Government, Veterinary Products, responded to my query stating, "Several products containing sodium pentobarbital have been approved for use in Canada as euthanasia agents for small and large animals, including cattle and horses. However, euthanized animals should not be used in animal feeds. | | In 1995, Nature's Recipe recalled $20 million worth of its dog food because inspectors found vomitoxin in "wheat screenings" used in the pet food. (Wheat screenings, which are not used for human consumption, can include broken grains, crop and weed seeds, hulls, chaff, joints, straw, elevator or mill dust, sand, and dirt.) The FDA did investigate but not out of concern for the more than 250 dogs who became ill after eating Nature's Recipe. The FDA investigated because of concerns for human health. | | Based on these reports, CVM officials decided to investigate a plausible theory that the dogs were exposed to pentobarbital through dog food, and that this exposure was making the dogs less responsive to pentobarbital when it was used as a drug. The researchers surmised that sodium pentobarbital was finding its way into commercial pet foods through animals who had been euthanized with this drug and rendered for use as a "meat meal" in pet food.
In conjunction with this study, the FDA/CVM wanted to determine if pet foods contained rendered remains of dogs and cats. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Lately, we've seen China blamed for everything from toxic toothpaste, deadly dog food, contaminated ginger and now lead-based paints in Mattel toys.
Of course, all the accusations are true. China's food and herbal products are so routinely contaminated with pesticides and heavy metals that high-quality supplement formulators in the United States refuse to buy products from China anymore. But the really clever part in all this is that blaming China prevents people from paying attention to the dangerous ingredients openly allowed in the U.S. food supply by the FDA. |
Ann N. Martin
See book keywords and concepts | | The letter stated, "The Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) began research in 1995 to develop a test method to detect pentobarbital residues in dog food. The procedure initially developed consisted of a qualitative analytical method."7 This method was designed primarily to analyze pet food containing significant concentrations of "meat and bone meal" referred to as "MBM." (Note that meat and bone meal is composed of material from rendering plants. | | CVM had collected 75 representative dry dog food samples and were in the process of analyzing these for pentobarbital levels."5
I contacted a veterinarian with the FDA/CVM, Sharon Benz, eager to find out the results of these tests. Dr. Benz referred my inquiry to the Public Information Specialist, Linda Grassie. She advised me that the results of this study were to be posted on its website in the spring of 2000. For the next year I checked this site numerous times and contacted FDA/CVM several rimes, including the FDA Commissioner, Jane Henney, MD, and still nothing. Finally, Dr. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | You should not have yeast in your dog food. It can actually become toxic to the liver. It becomes very hard for the body to break down. Unfortunately, a lot of people will get into the habit of using a lot of nutritional yeast in their diet. They will start to get sore joints, and they don't consider it's the yeast. When I used to work with humans as a naturopathic doctor, I couldn't believe the amount of people who were coming to me as heavy yeast users. We took them off the yeast, and we reversed a lot of symptoms just by doing that. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | I know, because probably one of the largest organic suppliers in the country came to us at a trade show and said, "You should put our brand of organic meat in your dog food because we have this other company doing it, and we're trying to expand into the market." I said, "Well, tell me what a whole pound of muscle meat would cost me. He said, "You couldn't afford to use whole muscle meat; we sell the trim pieces." That's what is being used in the pet food.
Mike: This is just another case where the label or the packaging contains misleading marketing claims. | | I wanted to make an organic bag of dog food back in 1997, a four or five pound bag that would cost $25. Nobody would buy it. It could be the best food on the market, but no one would buy it. By the way, when people think they are buying organic food, buying really great food that's really expensive, consider the fact that if you were to put organic meat and vegetables in your food, it would cost a lot more because they cost a lot more at the market. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  We wean the puppies at four to six weeks, and we try to put them on dog food and their digestive tracts aren't fully developed yet. This can lead to premature aging.
Mike: May I ask you to share a little more information about your background? You have a lot of passion for this subject, and people would like to know why.
Newman: I have a lot of passion for it from a personal experience. I had a 9-month-old Rottweiler, the first Rottweiler I ever bought. This was when I was a student, and she cost $850. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  That's due to changes in the nutritional makeup of cheaper dog food products today that are using a lot of white rice as a filler (because white rice is cheap and makes the dog foods more profitable). But just as in human beings, white rice causes diabetes and obesity because it's a refined carbohydrate offering little more than "empty calories."
When you look at pets, there is a direct relationship between foods and disease that is quite apparent. Part of the reason this is so apparent is because pets age much more quickly than human beings. |
Kevin Trudeau
See book keywords and concepts |  It is my opinion that if somebody calls me on the phone, or meets me on the street, or sends me an e-mail or writes me a letter and asks me a question about what type of dog food I give my dog, I am free to mention the product by brand name. I believe that if somebody in any form asks me a question about anything, I am free to express my opinion and state what I want to state without fear of reprisal from the Federal Trade Commission.
Imagine how silly it would be to be on the Larry King show and have Larry ask me, "Kevin, what type of bottled water do you drink? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | You can't make a bag of dog food that is going to fit every dog's need -- and the same with the cat foods that we make. What we recommend you do is follow the holistic care animal lifestyle, which is having a good clean food as your basis, so that the food is giving you the basis that you need for basic protein, fats and so on. Then, you supplement according to the animal's own needs. This is how you're going to get the best out of both.
For instance, when I had three different dogs in my household, they didn't all get the same level of vitamin C. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts | | If you were to take two dogs that were genetically very similar (from the same litter, for example), and you brought them into your house from the time they were very young then fed one dog all the processed foods that human beings eat, while feeding the other dog outstanding nutrition from the more expensive dog food formulas, you would see a tremendous difference in the health and lifespan of these two dogs. |
John A. McDougall
See book keywords and concepts |  They sell everything from dog food to toilet paper (recycled, of course). The success of these natural food stores has forced other supermarkets to meet consumers' demands for more healthful products. Also, increased sales volume has brought down the cost of healthful foods in both traditional supermarkets and natural food markets.
Reading labels is the key to effective food shopping. Ingredients are supposed to be listed in descending order of amounts contained in the package. However, these labels can be deceptive. |
Mike Adams
See book keywords and concepts |  Here's a (shortened) description of Greeley, as printed in Fast Food Nation:
You can smell Greeley, Colorado, long before you can see it The smell is hard to forget but not easy to describe, a combination of live animals, manure, and dead animals being rendered into dog food. The smell is worst during the summer months, blanketing Greeley day and night like an invisible fog. Many people who live there no longer notice the smell; it recedes into the background, present but not present, like the sound of traffic for New Yorkers. | | Out-of-date dry cat and dog food is sometimes sold as salvage and ends up in cattle feed.
My own comments on the feeding of chicken litter to cattle, which are posted at http://www.madcownews.org, are as follows:
This is fascinating news for several reasons, not the least of which is the fact that chicken litter is being fed to cattle in the U.S. and, therefore, cows are ingesting highly toxic arsenic that's contained in the chicken litter.
But don't put it past meat growers to use any chemical necessary to generate more profits. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | You can address the individual needs of the pet and bring a total supplement that is going to help that animal more than one bag of dog food will.
We don't have puppy formula or senior formula for that reason. Most companies that have a senior or puppy food are only cleaning up their meat source from what they put in their adult formula. For instance, a puppy can't eat as much crap as an adult dog can, and the senior dog can't process as much crap as an adult dog can. If you look on their bags, they usually have the same ingredients. |
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