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Healthy Eating Tips for your Canine Food allergies - The most common cause of allergies in dogs are soybeans, wheat and corn. These ingredients should be avoided as they can cause digestive problems, chronic licking at the feet, persistant ear infections and chewing at the feet and base of tail.
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Rudyard Kipling
Raw Food Diet For Dogs
Fresh Raw Meat
Estimate approximately 50% of the dog food diet to consist of raw meat.
Raw food diet means NOT cooked! It is fine to cook it, but cook the dogs food as little as possible until you feel comfortable feeding raw food diet to your dogs. Feed turkey, duck, beef, lamb, or venison. It's OK to serve the same kind of meat for 3 to 4 days, then switch if possible. Steady feeding of the same food can lead to unnecessary hypersensitivities in dogs.
Side dish
For a balanced raw food diet feed oats because they seem to digest more completely. Cover them with boiling water and let soften for 20 minutes.
Alternatively, give smashed potatoes, noodles, brown rice to the dogs food.
Additional add freshly juiced vegetable and fruits:
Carrots - Vitamin A, B, C, D, E, G, K, potassium, calcium. I use carrots as the base and add a few others to vary the raw food diet daily.
Parsley - helps with oxygen metabolism, with the adrenal and thyroid glands, healing for the genito-urinary tract.
Celery- Contains organic sodium (maintains fluidity of blood and lymph) - natural diuretic, helpful for arthritis, water retention, urinary problems.
Paprika, Garlic, Watercress, Alfalfa Sprouts, Zucchini, Corn, Apple, Banana, Mango… or whatever your dog likes is always good for a raw food diet.
Add raw yellow and green colored foods to the dogs diet, they are great toxin relievers for the body.
Watermelon is one of the best free radical scavengers.
Tofu is a high source of protein
Once a week you can add:
Cheese-cubes, 1 boiled egg, plain yogurt to the dog food
Mix all of the ingredients together in a blender with about 1/2 cup warm water.
A variety of vegetables is important to provide all of the vitamins, minerals, and enzymes required.
Don't give raw Broccoli, Brussels sprouts, Beans, Turnip and Cabbage to your dog as they cause intestinal gas.
Sambal, Onions, Peppers, Tomato, Spinach, and Cucumbers are also to be avoided in the dog food as they are not digested very well.
For more information on feeding your dog a Raw Food Diet visit Doggie's Paradise.
Vegetables:
Broccoli - Broccoli is one of the most nutrient dense foods. It is dense in vitamin C, beta carotene, folic acid, calcium and fiber. It is also a good source of chromium. Like other members of the cabbage family, broccoli has demonstrated remarkable anticancer effects. Broccoli contains several important phytochemicals: beta carotene, indoles, and isothiocyanates and over thirty-three cancer preventative compounds. Research suggests that phytochemicals prevent carcinogens from forming, stop carcinogens from getting to target cells and boost enzymes that detoxify carcinogens.
Spinach - Spinach contains twice as much iron as most other greens. Like other chlorophyll and carotene -containing vegetables, it is a rich source of antioxidants. Besides beta-carotene, it also supplies two other carotenes, lutein and zeaxanthin. Spinach has long had a reputation of being very high in nutrients. It is a good source of fiber, calcium, potassium and vitamins A, B6 and K.
Celery - Celery is rich in calcium, potassium, phosphorus, sodium and iron, as well as vitamins A, B, C. The phytochemical 3-n-butyl phthalide, one of the components that gives celery its characteristic smell and taste, is especially potent as an anti-tumor agent. Along with the compound sedanolide, an aromatic ingredient also found in celery, 3-n-butyl phthalide significantly reduces the incidence of tumors in laboratory animals. It is said to decrease nervousness, and is used as an acid neutralizer.
Bok Choy - A cruciferous vegetable like cabbage, bok choy is an excellent source of Beta carotene, vitamin C, thiamine, riboflavin and calcium. It contains significant amounts of nitrogen compounds known as indoles, as well as fiber - both of which appear to lower the risk of various forms of cancer. Bok choy is also a good source of folate (folic acid).
Carrot - The carrot is the king of the vegetables. It is the richest source of pro-vitamin A carotenes among commonly consumed vegetables. But unlike vitamin A, beta carotene and other carotenes in carrots do not cause toxicity. Beta carotene is also a powerful antioxidant. Carrots also contain vitamins B, C, D, E, K, riboflavin, niacin, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, sodium, and iron. Carrots have repeatedly shown to nourish the optic nerve and significantly improve eyesight.
Capsicum - This is an excellent source of many essential nutrients. By weight, red peppers have three times as much vitamin C as citrus fruit. Moreover, red peppers are quite a good source of beta carotene, and they offer a good amount of fiber and vitamin B6. Because capsicum stimulates circulation and enhances blood flow, it is considered food for the circulatory system and as a digestive aid. Red peppers are one of few foods that contain lycopene, a phytochemical that may help prevent various forms of cancer
Foods to Avoid!
Could be harmful to your Canine Companion!
Q.Which foods could be dangerous for my dog?
Some foods which are edible for humans, and even other species of animals, can pose hazards for dogs because of their different metabolism. Some may cause only mild digestive upsets, whereas, others can cause severe illness, and even death. The following common food items should not be fed (intentionally or unintentionally) to dogs. This list is, of course, incomplete because we can not possibly list everything your dog should not eat.
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