There have been recent studies done about the effects of the high carbohydrate diets on our pet's health.
This is from the WALTHAM International Science Symposium: Nature, Nurture, and the Case for Nutrition in 2003 and explains what Lady's specialist said about the link between high carbohydrate diets and diabetes:
The "carnivore connection" theory proposes that resistance to the glucose-lowering effects of insulin evolved during the Ice Age to maintain euglycemia on a high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet (26). Inherited insulin resistance in conjunction with environmental risk factors such as physical inactivity, obesity, and consumption of excessive amounts of highly refined, easily digestible carbohydrates places a large, prolonged demand on the ß-cells for excessive insulin secretion, which eventually results in ß-cell exhaustion and diabetes.
And The Waltham Book of Companion Animal Nutrition states that “There is no known minimum dietary requirement for carbohydrate...."
Burger, I., Ed. The Waltham Book of Companion Animal Nutrition, pergamon 1995. 26-27: 10 |