| We certainly love fried foods; fries, | | | | will be appalled at what every one of these |
| chicken, fish, corn dogs, donuts, even | | | | companies is calling food. And if that is not |
| veggies are battered and deep fried. Lunches | | | | bad enough, the so-called vitamins and |
| and dinners are often accompanied with potato | | | | minerals they include are the poorest |
| chips, corn chips, tortilla chips, and they | | | | quality, least beneficial, made from coal |
| are eaten as snacks. | | | | tar. |
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| The FDA estimates the average American eats | | | | Do not think for a minute that canned foods |
| 4.7 pounds of trans fats each year. | | | | or that all so-called natural pet foods or |
| | | | are much better; they are not! |
| And that is just the amount that the fried | | | | |
| foods absorb! | | | | If you are wondering why the FDA has not |
| | | | stepped in, the fact is most of the human |
| What about the majority of the oil that stays | | | | foods on grocery store shelves are as bad. It |
| in the fryer? Though rarely done, and | | | | would seem that the FDA is just another feel |
| depending on use, this oil may need to be | | | | good government agency that is little more |
| replaced many times a day. Once it is spent | | | | than a toothless tiger. |
| anything cooked in it tastes funky. Alas, | | | | |
| most of the time fresh oil is added to the | | | | No wonder tens-of-millions of cats and dogs |
| spent oil. Eventually though, it all gets | | | | have similar diseases to humans. We are |
| replaced. | | | | eating much of the same diet. |
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| Ever wonder what becomes of the used fry oil? | | | | "Fully 90% of all disease is caused by an |
| | | | unhealthy intestinal system" |
| The law requires all restaurants to have | | | | |
| grease traps. The more fried food, the faster | | | | Royal Society of Medicine Great Britain |
| they fill up. Grease removal is big business. | | | | |
| But what do the Grease Haulers do with it? | | | | The more things you eat that are not healthy, |
| | | | the greater the probability you will become |
| What do you think of when you hear the term | | | | unhealthy! |
| "Recycling". Only good things, right? | | | | |
| | | | The good news: Most diseases can be reversed, |
| The haulers make even more money recycling | | | | especially in pets. Why pets more than us? |
| the grease from these traps. Sounds good so | | | | Well, they can not cheat on their diet. |
| far, right? What could this rancid, | | | | |
| carcinogenic goop possibly be used for- an | | | | Your pet's optimum diet is really quite |
| alternative fuel source perhaps? No, not | | | | basic. To know what is best for them you only |
| exactly. | | | | have to observe their wild relatives whose |
| | | | diet consists of fresh kill, supplemented |
| What could possibly be worse than ingesting | | | | with grasses and dirt. |
| 4.7 pounds of trans-fat oils per year? | | | | |
| | | | Cats and dogs instinctively eat grass and |
| A dirty little secret of the dry pet food | | | | dirt for the microflora and soil based |
| industry is that they buy the haulers oil and | | | | microorganisms (SBOs) that are essential |
| spray it on dry pet food! What- Why? To give | | | | digestive aids. Due to pesticides, |
| this otherwise tasteless high temperature | | | | insecticides, chemical run off, and |
| extruded, nutrition-less bulk some flavor! If | | | | chlorinated lawn water, today these essential |
| you stick your hand into the dry food you | | | | soil and grass digestive aids are |
| will get this oil residue all over it. | | | | non-existent. |
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| Whether you own cats and dogs, or not, spend | | | | Whatever diet your cats and dogs are |
| a few minutes in the pet "food" section of | | | | currently on, slowly introduce a more natural |
| your grocery store. The first thing you will | | | | diet. Feed them raw or lightly cooked grass |
| notice is that this section is more like an | | | | fed meats, free range chicken and wild fish |
| entire aisle. | | | | (not farm raised!) that are preferably |
| | | | organic as well as antibiotic and hormone |
| The competition for the pet food dollar is | | | | free. |
| fierce. Each company outdoing the next with | | | | |
| ever more eye catching packaging. If their | | | | Supplement this more natural diet with |
| combined advertising budgets went into the | | | | essential digestive enzymes, omega 3 rich |
| actual product, cats and dogs would be a | | | | oils and SBOs formulated specifically for |
| whole lot healthier! | | | | cats and dogs. If your cat or dog is sickly |
| | | | or diseased, you must also introduce soothing |
| Check out the ingredients. If you have any | | | | agents and anti-inflammatories. |
| kind of working knowledge of nutrition you | | | | |