I can tell you that most human doctors receive only a tiny amount of nutritional training in school. Their training just does not include what the nutritional functions and needs of the body are. I have worked in the medical field for many years and I can tell you that if a doctor wants a patient to consider their diet they will send them to a nutritionist. I'm quite sure the same is true with veterinarians. Drug company representatives come to physicians offices to sell them drugs. The reps give them the latest updates on what is available to treat various conditions.The doctor depends on their information and does not research it. The same happens with veterinarians. A food company rep comes to the office and sells them the latest thing that their companies have put together to be fed for various conditions. The doctor is relying on the information that these companies representatives have given them. I would advise any human or pet owner to ask questions as to why this food is recommended for your dog or cat. You will find in many cases that your vet does not have much knowledge about it. Veterinarians are not nutritionists. They are relying on a biased company for their information. I suppose they assume the company has put the right ingredients in the food. However, most food companies are going by the bottom line to produce their food. What can sit on the shelf longest? How can they make a profit? That is what they are considering. Since meat cannot be put in a bag and sit on a shelf for long periods of time pet food companies have used grains and ingredients not natural to a dog's diet to substitute for the meat and other natural ingredients. Corn is not dog food. It seems anyone would realize that! Corn is used to fatten up cows and it has a high glucose content. The dog food site that was recommended by a previous post is not put together by a vet and I would say that is the first thing that would make me look at it. Some vets have taken the time to educate themselves on nutrition but very few so if you really want to help your pet do some research for yourselves. What was a dog originally intended to eat? Meat! That is what their bodies were made to use not corn! Not artificial ingredients. Our dogs that eat the grocery store or department store dog food are becoming obese, they are becoming diabetic and getting cancer at alarming rates. When ever we change a diet to something the body was not originally intended to eat the body cannot function as it was intended and disease sets in.
Instead of just treating symptoms the best healing will occur by giving the body the nutrition it needs in the form that the body can best metabolize. |