There are so many choices available when it comes to choosing the best, most nutritious food for your dogs and cats. Here at Emerald Ark one of the services that we provide is that we’re here to help you sort through the fact and fiction of all the online pet food hype. We want to help you truly understand the the details about feeding your beloved furry family member the highest quality of food available.
Because: The quality of food fed either supports and nurtures good health and wellness in your dog, or it creates illness, and disease.
Fact: Healing takes place in the body at the cellular level. It is this simple fact once understood that puts balanced wholesome nutrition at the top of the list for building good health and emotional wellness.
The Balance of Using Diet for Healing
What we feed our critter kids is equally as important as the foods and other practices we stop doing.
The Yin and Yang of healing
In the classes I teach, here in the Reno, Nevada area, I review an assortment of commonly fed dog foods and nutritional supplements. In this article I’ll give you the answers to many questions you may never have even thought to ask.
Dry Dog and Cat Food is Dead
Although many high-priced boutique dry dog and cat foods may be made by huge corporate conglomerates, with massive marketing budgets, the truth is dry dog food is horrible for your dog or cat. It doesn’t matter the price of what it costs. You’ve got to look deeper and not only read the label, but understand what the list of ingredients actually means.
Here at Emerald Ark we’ve already done this for you.
Even many of these high-priced dry dog foods are made with ‘feed grade’ ingredients. By law the FDA only requires pet food ingredients to be classified as GRAS (generally regarded as safe). The ONLY way to ensure your dog is receiving healthy food made from whole, real ingredients is to made your dog food yourself.
If you live in the Reno area, we can prepare your dog food for you. And for cats, we have our Feline Maintenance Diet for sale. This cat food is now in trials for preventing feline kidney disease.
But before we jump ahead to the benefits of a homemade recipe designed exclusively for your dog let me give you the bullet points of the downside of dry dog foods.
- Dry dog foods are cooked at temperatures that actually destroy nearly all the nutrients in the foods listed. Heat destroys the delicate – but essential – water soluble vitamins like vitamin C, and all the B complex vitamins. All the antioxidants in normally healthy raw foods are destroyed. All the essential fatty acids (EFAs) that may have been added are destroyed. All enzymes are destroyed. The only nutrients that remain are unhealthy carbohydrates, rancid fats and a few fat soluble vitamins.
- Dry dog foods are often made from poor quality ingredients.Even though the label says that it is made form ‘human-grade’ organic ingredients this is often not true. There have been more than one case where because a dog has become sick from eating a certain brand of dry dg food because of poor quality ingredients. And the sad truth is that even though the FDA investigated these cases the pet food companies were never fined and were not required to change their product labels.
- Cause of Disease: These poor quality ingredients actually become toxic inside your dog or cat and can contribute to DNA damage and can be at the root cause of many common disease conditions such as cancer, liver disease, kidney disease, arthritis, autoimmune diseases, and more.
The Solution
The best food you can make your dog is a BALANCED Homemade recipe that has been designed exclusively for your dog.
Personalized Balanced Nutrition for Your Dog
A Nutritionally Balanced Recipe for Dogs is Essential for your dog’s good health and emotional well being.
BUT WAIT!
Now before you jump on the internet and get all excited about making homemade food for your dog by throwing random ingredients together, let me tell you a short story. I was talking with a woman and explaining the extreme benefits of making dogs a balanced homemade food.
The KEY here is following a BALANCED dog food recipe.
And because of the things I told her she became very determined to make up her own recipe. She used chicken and grains and random vegetables and she was so proud of the food she made her dog. But do you know what happened? Because the recipe did not contain ingredients that were nutritionally balanced. In fact the food was so nutritionally unbalanced that her precious dog developed a bladder infection and started peeing blood.
Well, hours later, and after a $700 veterinary urgent care expense she had medications to help her dog recover. But the sad thing is that this well intending woman never knew that the homemade dog food she was so excited about making was the cause of this expensive urgent care episode.
This whole experience could have been prevented by scheduling a personalized consultation with Leslie so that a recipe could be created that was ideally suited to all her dogs qualities, a recipe that provided a nutrient-dense food, and one that was entirely balanced nutritionally. You see, the cause of the bladder infection in the dog in the story above was because the food did not contain the proper calcium to phosphorus ratio.
Proper Ratio of Calcium to Phosphorus to Vitamin D is Essential
Proper balance is essential for the optimal absorption of all nutrients. This supports the skeletal system metabolism and bone development. Adequate calcium level absorption is required for proper blood coagulation and nerve impulse transmission.
Proper phosphorus levels fuel cellular energy metabolism
Vit D: to Calcium to Phosphorus balance
The proper ratio and balance of vitamin D to calcium to phosphorus promotes urinary health: and helps preventing crystals from developing in the urine and urinary tract.
The proper ratio and balance of vitamin D to calcium to phosphorus supports kidney health. When there is a unbalance of these essential minerals the following problems can occur.
When Nutrients are Missing in the Diet
- Cells cannot function properly.
- Health or Disease starts at the cellular level.
- DNA cannot replicate properly = disease.
- Individuals cannot cope with stress.
- Immune system cannot prevent infection.
- Unbalanced nutrition = Poor digestion & nutrient assimilation.
- Problems with bone development, wound healing, obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome (imbalances), mitochondrial dysfunction, arthritis, neurological disease, cancer, & more.
Now that you’re armed with this vital information that the pet food manufacturers never want you to know, we invite you to take action.
Schedule your personalized consultation with Leslie today. She’ll create a balanced recipe and complete nutritional plan designed specifically to support your dog’s good health and well being.
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