Dog Health Food Could Cure Your Dogs Dermatitis And Arthritis

Dog health food may sound a like a strange idea, but today there are so many dogs suffering from allergies and reactions to their food that you owe it to your best friend to look into this. Many vets are recognising that dogs are starting to develop health problems that are solely due to additives in their food.

 So when was the last time that you actually looked at the ingredient list on your dogs food? Go ahead and have a look now. Do you know what meal is exactly? What about the preservatives? What are they doing to your dog?

 Well, from a nutritional point of view you need a certain ration of protein, fat and carbohydrate to give your dog their full spectrum of nutrients. Often youll see ratios like 40% meat 50% vegetables and 10% grain. While not wrong, this can be a bit confusing. The actual ratios that you want to achieve are based on protein (25-30%), fat (30-35%) and carbohydrate (35-45%). Then you need to look at exactly what ingredients make up those ratios. I mean, lean meat isnt going to add much to the proportion of fat, compared to a really fatty type of meat.

 Often you'll hear carbohydrates being dismissed as an unnecessary part of a dogs diet, however this is only true when an excessive amount of the food is made of low quality grain fillers.

 Sometimes, pet food companies use cheap grains as a filler for the food so the ratio might be more like 70-80% carbohydrates, so this isnt going to be the best for your dog in the long run. And can lead to allergies and dermatitis just like in humans. After all its a bit hard to imagine a German shepherd grazing on the African savannah isnt it? They arent herbivores so we shouldnt feed them like they are.

 And what about preservatives? A common and hotly disputed one is ethoxyquin. This is used to preserve that fat component from breaking down, but it has been linked to problems ranging from dermatitis to cancerous tumors and dramatically shortened life spans. Unfortunately pet food labeling requirements arent as strict as human ones, so some companies are adding this horrible preservative but arent actually listing it on the label. Which makes it pretty difficult to track down, if you want to keep using commercial dog food but keep your dog healthy. This is one of the most dangerous additives but not the only one that is routinely added to dog food and hidden.

 But what about the actual protein and fat content? What exactly are the proteins used? Some research has found a range of horrible animal parts that have been put into dog food. Offal and by products of other animals and even euthanized pets, their plastic tags and lethal chemicals intact! So just because there's 30% protein, that doesn't mean that it's something you'd be wanting your dog to eat!

 It's easy to see why more people are beginning to make their own dog food. In many cases it'll be cheaper and far better quality. You can give your dog a variety of meats, you can control the quality and you can eliminate all those nasty chemicals. And it doesnt take long either. Many people cook up a batch once a week and freeze it. Or you can opt for a baked biscuit type of food with all your dogs favorite goodies in there.

 Dog health food is fast changing from a luxury for pampered pooches to an essential component of keeping your best friend healthy. They trust us to give them what they need, so it's up to us to get educated about what really goes into their food.

China Will Rectify The Health Food Market To Ensure Public Food Safety

Business community on May 11th hearing the State Food and Drug Administration recently issued "2010 health food safety rectification work plan", calling through the consolidation of health food safety, crack down on illegal health food, health food law to curb chaos in an effective, regulate health food market order, safeguarding people's health and safety.

 It is reported that the rectification work focuses on: according to the approved period of registration but did not indicate a full clean-up of health food replacement; carry out health food labels, instructions and special inspection of the contents of drugs in health food special inspection of law; regulation of health foods exaggerated advocacy function and use of public lectures, etc. disguised sales of fake and shoddy health food; investigate acts of selling counterfeit and inferior health food; investigate claims of ordinary food-specific health care function's behavior.

 The program urges all health food regulatory authorities to further improve food safety rectification work on health importance and urgency of understanding the health food safety rectification work on an important position, conscientiously perform their statutory duties, earnestly rectification health food safety organization and implementation and implementation. Regulatory departments at all levels of health food with local conditions, develop practical implementation plans, clear objectives, tasks and responsibilities, step by step implementation of consolidation tasks, timely inspection and evaluation organization, to ensure the rectification work closely and firmly grasp fine, achieve results, efforts to Construction of scientific supervision and effective monitoring of long-term mechanism.

 Regulatory departments at all levels of health food products to increase food safety rectification propaganda, and actively respond to hot issues of social concern. To give full play to the role of community supervision, the mobilization of social forces to actively participate in the restructuring efforts, not only the exposure time illegal enterprise, illegal products, and timely information to the progress and effectiveness of the rectification work.

 In addition, all levels of health food regulatory departments should strengthen inter-regional, inter-sectoral coordination and cooperation, monitoring efforts. Involving other regions and sectors violation cases, to promptly inform the relevant regions and departments of the situation, make an investigation request; received briefings on the requirements and an investigation should be handled in a timely manner as required response. The provincial health food regulatory authorities to strengthen food security and consolidation of the health organization and coordination and inspection work, timely detection and rectification of problems in processing, ensure that the rectification work carried out, to achieve tangible results.