In his book,”In Defense of Food,” Michael Pullan suggests that the “western diet” (high carb, high saturated fat, low omega fat, low antioxidants) caused many native populations to get ill once they adopted that way of eating.
Fast food and packaged food in place of native diets led to health problems in native Aborigines, Hawaiians, and Japanese popuations that changed their tried-and-true eating habits passed down from generation to generation over thousands of years.
Isn’t that similiar to the high-carb, low-fat, commercial, dog food ingredients that we have forced on a native canine population that had been eating a certain diet for thousands upon thousands of years. Now it seems that our dogs are suffering from more obesity, arthritis, immune diseases, and cancer just like other native populations of humans that changed their diet.
The great thing is, every diet can be changed easily and economically using by reading the label for ingredients, and adding healthy human food and oils.In Dog Dog Dish Diet: Sensible Nutrition for Your Dog’s Health I try to reverse the affects of the commercial diets on some individuals that cannot tolerate them. Bone Appetit!
