Holistic Dog Food versus commercial brand dog food and why you should consider it.
Holistic dog food is a diet which supplies sufficient amounts of nutrition, vitamins, minerals and other elements that your dog needs to keep healthy and fit. The most important role the holistic dog food plays is that it strengthens your dogs immune system.
Be aware - commercially produced dog food may be harmful to your dogs health. For healthy alternatives including holistic dog treats click here
Many commercially produced dog food is heavily prepared with chemicals, preservatives and artificial flavors combined with cheap, low quality ingredients. These deposit toxins in you dogs immune system weakening your dogs body functions, making them sick, arthritic and can even bring on premature death.
As more dog owners become more conscious about their dogs health they are choosing holistic dog food to keep their dog safe from various diseases that are becoming more common like cancer, tumors and arthritis.
Your dogs immune system is very complex.
There are 4 types of immune system problems:
Neoplasia means "new growth" also called tumors. Not all tumors are serious, there are two types malignant (cancerous) or benign (non-cancerous). Tumors can be caused by viruses, parasites, excess sunlight and chemicals.
Autoimmune means the dogs immune system is attacking itself – antibodies stick to the dogs red blood cells the dogs body thinks the red blood cells are a "foreign invader" causing the dogs immune system to attack the red blood cells and destroy them. Again often created by chemicals.
Hypersensitivity like us, dogs can develop allergic reactions to almost anything. Most frequent are skin rashes, ear irritation or stomach issues affecting their bowels. Most common causes are grass or plants, chemical cleaners, fleas and your dogs food, particularly commercially made dog food with lots of chemicals.
Immunodeficiency unfortunately occurs in puppies 2-4 months old, it is the impaired ability to kill bacteria due to lack of a certain type of protein. A typical symptom is skin wounds that don't heal including the umbilicus. These cases are difficult to treat and generally requires the pup to be euthanased before 6 months.
The protein mutation is often carried over from the parents, particularly the mother in her milk. Often traced back to the parent dog diet of commercial dog food.
A lot of dog owners believe that the simple approach to build up their dogs immune system is by keeping them vaccinated. This is partially true, but even vaccinations are chemically based.
The body functions and organs of your dog are very sensitive and so the possibility of them getting sick is very high. Thus the importance of feeding them a holistic and natural diet.
The natural elements like different types of seasonal vegetable especially beans and carrots, fresh fish oil and meat are some good ingredients to prepare a holistic diet for them.
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Warning: It is always advisable to consult with your vet expert.