Friday, April 27, 2012

How to Find Health Promoting Pet Food

By Nadine Dylan


Finding the Pet Food that may Optimize Your Pet's Health

It's understandable we all love our pets, and we all want to ensure that they live long and healthy lives. We bring them to the veterinarian for checkups and vaccinations, we spay and neuter them to reduce the animal population, and then we open our hearts as well as our homes to them. We also are put through a regular flow of pet food commercials, each and every company attempting to encourage us that their pet food is exceptional to the others. The unfortunate truth, although, is that not all pet food companies possess your beloved animal's best interests at heart.

In fact, much of the dog/cat food on the market is not nutrient thick; rather, it depends mostly on fillers and animal byproducts. Pay attention to the list of ingredients for the pet food you may have on hand. Also so-called top quality brand pet foods have ingredients that is going to take you aback.

The first 5 elements listed commonly from the lion's share of the pet food. Major cat food and dog food brands will include things like chicken by-product meal, corn grits, corn meal or corn gluten meal, and wheat flour or wheat gluten. A great diet plan for cats is one that's human grade. As an example, cat food need to contain a concentrated, high-quality protein source just like chicken meal, ground brown rice, rice flour, chicken fat, and dried beet pulp. Dog food should contain the same ingredients, except for substituting oat groats for rice flour.

The list of ingredients in your dog/cat food may be shocking, but it is also shocking to discover that even high quality brands don't generally include things that will keep your pet's health and longevity.

What are most of these ingredients? For dogs and cats, nutritious food should include vegetables and fruits, that have antioxidants, as well as fiber, vitamins, and phytonutrients. It should have direct-fed microbials - the kinds of microbials that are found in yogurt that will help retain good health. Similarly, omega-3 fatty acids should be included in a nutritious pet food, both because they assist health and simply because they keep your pet's coat shiny.

If you contrast how we eat with exactly how our pets eat, it becomes clear that the grade of their food is fully necessary. Naturally, we eat a wide array of foods, and can constantly supplement our diets with vitamins if we skip on the vegetables or perhaps fruit. Our pets, however, eat the exact same food day in and day out for the majority of their lives, with a few added treats from time to time; if there's an essential nutrient lacking, they do not have a chance to eat it elsewhere.

Life's abundance is supposed to be shared. Our pets give us so much unconditional love that the least we can do in exchange is give them human grade, nutritious pet food that may ensure that they improve our lives for many years.




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