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Yes, I try to do an exercise DVD every day. I take my BS before and after---it really comes down, about 50 points! I'm still stuggling to get my BS at an optimal level. I appreciate my doctor. Instead of throwing yet more meds at me, she suggested exercise to balance things out, and it seems to be working!
Its too bad there isn't some home test one could use to monitor dogs & cats blood sugar, like for humans.
There is, I have a friend who tests her cat. I think you take the blood from the ear.
Yup you can moniter the blood glucose in animals just like you do in humans and for Cats the ear is the best site to get the blood sample and warming the ear up before poking it will usually give you a big enough sample with one poke. Cats are indeed strict carnivores as they lack the enzyme to break down carbs.
Yes, I try to do an exercise DVD every day. I take my BS before and after---it really comes down, about 50 points! I'm still stuggling to get my BS at an optimal level. I appreciate my doctor. Instead of throwing yet more meds at me, she suggested exercise to balance things out, and it seems to be working!
Its too bad there isn't some home test one could use to monitor dogs & cats blood sugar, like for humans.
Diet alone works for many people, including myself. If I don't avoid refined carbs or eat too many complex carbs, my BS goes up to just below the "danger" point she said. So right now I'm on a modified Atkins diet, consuming complex carbs only, and in small amounts.
As for our cats. They can do very nicely without any carbs at all. Before kibble hit the store shelves obesity and diabetes in cats was quite rare.
I know from my own experience, one random sample doesn't tell much of anything. My fasting BG was quite normal, but my mid-day was over 600+
Then I would think it's diet related. Have you spoke to your Dr about controlling your BS using diet and exercise alone? It's best to stay off the pills and injections if at all possible. That goes for our pets also. As for exercise I have one cat who doesn't care for exercise at all and seldom played even as a kitten. She 4 now and a bit on the heavy side. So she will have to be watched for health problems more so than the others as she ages.
When did they start making kibble, anyways? It seems I remember it being new when I was about 7-8, so that would be about 1960. I remember my parents just feeding the cats table scraps, meat only. Canned cat food was something of a novelty then, too. My parents saw it as a sort of convenience. Our cats were always healthy and lived long, with a diet of just plain ol' meat!
Just like with humans, animals are being slowly poisoned with processed foods.
OK folks, as a few others have stated, the point of the article is not how great it is to feed garbage to our pets. The guy started his writing project to expose the horrific things going into your typical rendering plant and being included in pet food. He then went on to say that somewhere during the research to write this, he became far MORE overwhelmed with disgust that human processes generate such a huge volume of otherwise wasted dead creatures in the first place. Remember that scene in "Dances With Wolves" where they come upon the field of buffalo carcasses where only the hides and tongues were taken? That is the emotional sentiment he's got going on. He is stunned at the massive amount of death we produce, even more that what is done with the remains.
I agree.
But I'm still going to seek alternatives to rendered roadkill, zoo animals, shelter pets, and packing plant rejects, to feed to MY cat. It doesn't have to be "human grade" (for instance I'm not a fan of eating the brain, guts or eyeballs of any animal, but my cat would be cool with it.) But hold the styrofoam and euthanasia drugs, if you please...
Slightly off topic, but absolutely nothing from the slaughterhouse goes to waste. Every scrap of everything is used in some way or another.
That is true. The waste in the food industry is generally further down the chain. It's stuff that doesn't get bought at grocery stores (and gets thrown out), stuff that turns moldy/rotten in the fridge before someone gets around to cooking it, and stuff that gets dumped in the garbage because the restaurant portions were too large or someone at home cooked too much/doesn't eat leftovers.
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Overall, we waste 26.2% of all the meat that enters the US retail market.
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Cats are indeed strict carnivores as they lack the enzyme to break down carbs.
