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Old 04-04-2006, 07:28 AM   #60
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Originally Posted by Breezeaway
If you feed your pets lots of white rice for example, you will end up giving them diabetes. In fact, if you're asking a veterinarian who has been practicing for twenty or thirty years, they will tell you that they have recently seen a skyrocketing increase in the number of cases of diabetes in dogs. That's due to changes in the nutritional makeup of cheaper dog food products today that are using a lot of white rice as a filler (because white rice is cheap and makes the dog foods more profitable). But just as in human beings, white rice causes diabetes

exactly. white rice is a simple carb which is just converted into glucose and is quickly absorbed into the blood stream. i never quite understood the advocacy of rice on here because of that fact.
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