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40 million years ago the earliest prehistoric dogs began evolving on planet earth. For the next 39.75 million years they roamed the planet as wild beasts, catching prey, scavenging, hunting as packs and evolving into their modern counterparts. Man and dog first formed a friendship back in the cave man era (250,000+ years ago), forged by a symbiotic relationship of combined hunting skills, early warning of danger and protection, companionship, and the cleaning up of all mans food scraps and waste. “Mans best friend” has continued to provide this service throughout the history of mankind; his role as hunter, pest controller, scavenger and waste disposal provided the dog with its natural diet of raw meats and scraps. It was not until just over 30 years ago in Australia, that the first commercial cooked dog and cat foods were released onto the market….and with that, began the slow and insidious decline in health of modern day dogs and cats.

The average veterinarian today spends more than half his or her working day treating a virtual epidemic of skin diseases, allergies, arthritis, teeth and gum problems, ear infections, anal gland impactions, urinary tract diseases and a huge range of degenerative diseases and cancers previously only thought to occur in man.

It is this background of information that lead respected Australian veterinarian Dr Bruce Syme to begin searching for a solution to this health crisis that did not depend on the continuous use of drugs (like cortisone and antibiotics), and then the need for more drugs to counter the side effects of the original treatments.

“ It was simply out of frustration, as a vet, that lead me to look for a better answer to these problems. I was embarrassed every time my clients came back for more consultations and more drugs for the same old problems..itchy skin, ear infections, arthritis therapy etc..”

And the answer to all these problems…Nutrition !

Dr Syme, along with a growing body of vets, breeders, and every day dog and cat owners, and a wealth of scientific evidence, believes that it is the practice of feeding cooked and processed pet foods, especially those using cheap meat and cereal by-products, that has resulted in the dramatic decline in health of modern dogs and cats.

“Cooking food does a lot more than just destroy vitamins” Dr Syme says, “ it destroys essential fatty acids, denatures proteins and enzymes, damages minerals and micronutrients, and severely decreases the nutritional content and bioavailability of any food source. In short, cooking pet food

creates nutritional deficiencies, which are often worsened by the use of cheap ingredients of poor quality and nutritional value.”

Although many premium brand dry foods are now using far better quality ingredients, they are all still cooked, processed, and use some form of artificial preservatives. Despite the claims that processed canned and dry pet foods will supply all of your pet’s nutritional needs, research has shown that many common brand pet foods supply as little as 26 of the 72 macro and micronutrients required for good health, and there is no legal requirement for them to do otherwise.

It is now an accepted medical fact that the top 8 killer diseases in western society (which include heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes, arthritis, alzheimer’s and autoimmune disease) are a direct result of the highly refined and processed western diet we consume. It is also an accepted and proven fact that the addition of high quality fresh fruit and vegetables, and some basic vitamin and mineral supplements (along with exercise), to the average western diet will dramatically reduce the chances of developing any of these top 8 diseases. The simple fact is, that the combination of intensive farming techniques currently used, and the high degree of food processing and refinement that follows, has lead to wide scale nutritional deficiencies.

 

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