Is one of your
New
Year's resolutions to go on a diet?
Is it
time for your pet need to go on a diet too? Dog and cat
owners buying weight-control diets for their overweight pets
are faced with a confusing variation in calorie density,
recommended intake, and wide range cost of low-calorie pet
foods. Your pets are too fat, but what do you feed them?
Obesity in pets is associated with numerous diseases and
may contribute to a shorter lifespan, so many pet owners
turn to low-calories pet foods. However, when a study
examined nearly 100 commercially available diets with weight
management claims, it found that dry dog foods range in
calorie density from 217 to 440 kilocalories per cup and the
packages recommended that overweight dogs be given an
amount ranging from 0.73 to 1.47 times the dog's resting
energy requirement. The diets also varied wildly in price.
Similar findings were made in wet dog food and cat food that
are marketed for weight control. Nearly 50% of domesticated
animals are overweight or obese.
Nutritionist Lisa Freeman says, "There is so much information
(and misinformation) about pet foods, it's understandable
that people are confused about what to feed their dogs and
cats. To counteract these myths, people are accustomed to
turning to the labels on food, but as this study shows,
packaging might not always be a reliable source of
information." And regulations of pet food claims are
much
more lax than rules about human food.
If YOU'RE the one who is fat, you need to know that there's
a FREE diet book right here on our website. To read it,
click here
and scroll down to What I Learned From the Fat Years.
Anne Strieber, who used to be a diabetic,
devised this diet herself, using scientific principles, and lost
100 pounds by following it, and you can
too. Losing weight and keeping it off involves following the
right path.
Please be sure to follow the path that will make sure that
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