Dr. Dodds book on nutrition??
 

I just came across this book and was wondering if anyone has read it. It looks like it has a different approach when feeding our pets. This is an excerpt from the description.....


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Read Canine Nutrigenomics and discover:
• How to tell which foods create optimum gene expression and vibrant health at the cellular level and which foods lead to chronic disease.
• The amazing healing power of functional foods.
• The “Three Keys” to easily creating a foundation diet for your dog based on the principles of nutrigenomics.
• How to use functional ingredients to treat, manage and even reverse a wide variety of chronic canine health conditions.
• The 10 “canine functional superfoods” and how they can supercharge your dog’s health by optimizing his gene expression.
• The signs of a food intolerance/sensitivity and how to stop it in its tracks.

Looks interesting....your assignment, if you choose to accept it, is to read the book and report back with what you learned about this "Canine Nutrigenomics"!!!

Well, I already disagree that dogs can't eat strawberries. Mine like berries and do just fine on them. Ditto for citrus fruit.... my almost 15 year old loves oranges, clementines, and occasionally, a little lemon zest.

Uh Oh......I routinely give mine satsumas from my trees in back, oranges, Rio Red grapefruit, Cumquats, strawberries, blueberries, banannas, summer seasonal fruits.....so I have a problem too! I will have to find out what her issue is with those fruits......I am wondering if she is going along in the vein of keeping the system alkaline to thwart cancer.......??

Lol....I concur! :)

Book looks interesting.

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Maybe it's just to keep dog food companies in business. There is so much information out there good & useless it's hard to believe any.

Where are you seeing that she doesn't recommend strawberries? On pages 19 and 158 she recommends berries highly.

Mine love strawberries. I freeze small ones in the summer for a cold treat.

I saw this on Dr. Dodds' blog...as some of you know, I am a BIG Fan of Dr. Dodds...her NutriScan test saved Turbo.

One of the proteins he can't have (according to the NutriScan test) is turkey but I gave him some Primal Turkey & Sardine anyway...he threw it up. Turbo's food intolerance symptom is vomiting. Going to stick w/what he can have.:p

Page 38 on the list of toxic foods to never feed a dog.
Watch those peanuts too.

I feed berries and peanuts. What about all those people that feed peanut butter with pills? I'm having a very hard time believing these are toxic foods and will ask my vet tomorrow when he calls about Bogey. I've asked him in the past about Dr. Dodd and all I've ever really been able to get from him is a broad smile and a head shake....which was not a nod if you get my drift.

She also has it on around page 76 not to feed strawberries.
There are a lot of things I'm apparently not feeding my seniors. An apple a day to keep the doctor away is apparently needed for his heart and to block diarrhea. Just what I need - a heart patient that will be constipated and stroke out. Since she doesn't say how many apples, or what kind, I'll check mercola for further info. Organic of course.

Don't get me started on Mercola :eek:

This is interesting. I did a search of the definition of Nutrigenomics and found that on the Purina site:

Nestlé PURINA is one of only a few companies in the world to use molecular and functional genetics to help understand the "why" behind dog health and nutrition.

Nestlé PURINA use Nutrigenomics (the study of the effects of foods and food constituents on gene expression) to focus on identifying and understanding molecular-level interaction between nutrients and other dietary bioactives with the genome.

Nestlé Purina scientists use molecular nutrition to identify gene-expression changes related to specific health conditions and examine how nutrition can help manage canine health. Whether scientists are studying the nutritional management of obesity, joint conditions, or food allergies, molecular nutrition helps them to fully understand the biological context of certain changes and how they can be used in order to benefit dogs. Our goal is to impact the processes through nutrition.

For further information download the attached document for an article entitled "Osteoarthritis and its origins: Disease development at the cellular and molecular level" In the study outlined in this article, Nestlé PURINA scientists used gene array technology to look at changes in canine chondrocytes. Molecular and functional genetics used in this study helped them understand the "why" behind canine osteoarthritis.

Megans, that was the basis for dodds suing Purina and having her lawsuit dismissed with prejudice (she can't refile it).

ETA: skeptvet had an article abour this
http://skeptvet.com/Blog/2012/11/can...nutrigenomics/

Seems like you find a tiny, cute little ravel, doesnt look like much, you start pulling on it, and after you pull out a couple hundred feet, you find a big old AGENDA attached to the end......and the dominoes begin to fall.

They had a thing on our channel 2 news tonight about dog food and how to feed your pet.....they talked about "balance" between a "hot" and a "cold" metabolism in your specific dog....I really didnt get much from it....thought I would pull it up on the computer (kprc.com)and see if I can get more info.....