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Pet Health and Nutrition Information
How Feeding Your Dog the Right Diet Can Avoid Gastric Cancer
For many people, their pooch is more than just a pet, it’s a member of the family. After all, you live together, play together and you’re responsible for your dog’s health and diet too. Just like humans your pet’s diet plays an important role in their...
Keeping your dog alive without a Nutritional Degree
by Sylvie Savage I was inspired to write this article because I heard a seminar the...
Dogs don’t come with owners manuals!
Your dog may need supplementation more than you do? Dogs don’t come with owners manuals the way your car does but wouldn’t it be an amazing support system if they did. You don’t have to look far to get good information on tuning up your dog both mentally and...
Relief From Allergies in Three Easy Steps
DEFUSING THE PRE-LOADED INTENSITY OF ALLERGIES Relief and quality of life in three easy steps with or without drugs The rate of skin disease in our pets will continue to rise with the rise in pollution concentration. This is inevitable but the symptoms are not...
Preventing Joint Disease in Your Dog
Preventing joint disease in your dog Health is a choice; it depends on all the little choices we make daily. Diet, nutrition, activity level, breeding or genetics and emotional state all play significant roles in your dog’s health. Every choice you make effects...
How Pet Food Nutritional Info Can Be Misleading
It’s a jungle out there. There are so many pet food companies clamouring for our attention. They want us to believe that their products contain 100% of the nutrients your dog or cat needs to support a healthy, active and long life. At the same time, their products...
Whey Protein For Your Pets
Quite regularly, our customers ask us about the reasons we use whey protein in our products, specifically BioVITES. Let’s look at the important health benefits whey protein has for your dogs and cats. What Is Whey Protein? Originally, whey was simply a by-product of...
Enzymes And Your Pets
Enzymes are proteins used by your pet’s body in many different physiological functions such as healthy cellular activity, detoxification and the breaking down of nutrients in their food. Let’s look at these vital proteins and gain some understanding of their...
Do Our Pets Get Much Nutrition From Their Food?
Just imagine if you were to put a handful of steel ball bearings into a bag of kibble. Could we then say that your pet would receive its daily recommended amount of iron from the cereal? Of course, not. We know that they cannot digest or absorb any of the iron that is...
Nutrition And Dental Health For Your Pets
Let’s face it, veterinary dental care is very expensive. The exams are pricey and quotes for dental procedures cause sticker shock to pet owners across the country. While not every dental condition can be prevented, it’s curious to think about why prevention through...
The Best Vegetables for Cats
Healthy Veggie Snacks for Little Carnivores As we have discussed here, cats are carnivores. They need meat. Veterinarians may recommend commercially produced cat food which is supposedly complete nutrition for your cat. As we have discussed in this article, commercial...
The Hormonal Impact Of Getting Your Pet Fixed
It makes sense that removing the sexual organs of an animal, although done with a noble purpose, will have physiological and psychological impacts. Rather than jump into a lively debate on “if and when” we should spay or neuter our pets, let’s notice how these common...
What Should I Feed My Cat?
Seeing bag after bag of “cat food” in shops and at vet clinics can be a confusing thing. All or most say that they provide complete nutrition for your cat. Let’s take a moment, get past what food companies are telling us, and look at what our cats need to be eating....
The Importance of Lignans for Your Pet
We have all been encouraged to spay or neuter our pets. But the unintended consequence of these procedures is a hormonal imbalance which may cause disease and symptoms including: skin and coat issues (dryness, dandruff, itching, etc.) mammary or prostate gland issues...
The Best Fruits and Vegetables for Dogs
To Veg or Not to Veg Many veterinarians will say that it is unnecessary to feed fruits and vegetables to your dog. They may recommend commercially produced dog food which is supposedly complete nutrition for your dog. As we have discussed in this article, commercial...
Prebiotics vs. Probiotics For Pets
Definitions Probiotic Probiotics are live microorganisms that may be able to help prevent and treat some illnesses. Promoting a healthy digestive tract and a healthy immune system are their most widely studied benefits at this time. These are also commonly...
3 Vital Nutrition And Wellness Issues For Senior Dogs And Cats
It makes sense, right? Senior pet food formulations are healthy for senior pets. Sounds good. But read this, from Dr. Karen Becker from Mercola.com “Neither AAFCO (Association of American Feed Control Officials) nor the National Research Council (NRC) provides...
How To Help My Overweight Pet
Here’s a few of the health issues directly related to our pets being overweight: Type 2 diabetes Osteoarthritis High blood pressure...