AVMA discourages pet owners from feeding raw petfood diets. The basic premise of the new resolution passed by the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) is that raw food feeding exposes pet owners to salmonella and other nasty bacteria. Oh please – so far as I know there have been a lot more documented instances of…
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Antibiotics
peds.2011-2879.full.pdf (application/pdf Object). – Pediatrics 2012 June 18 From 2002 to 2010 there were decreases in pediatric drug utilization including a 14% decrease in systemic antibiotics.
Avocados
Avocado – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. How many types of avocados have you tried? While the Hass is the most common, it’s not necessarily the best tasting or best value. Most standard commercial varieties are referred to as an A or B cultivar. The A cultivars are mostly slightly less cold-hardy than the B cultivars…
Disinfection By-Products
Is This Additive Contaminating the Water and Air in Your Home? – Body Ecology – 2012 July 3 Disinfection by-products = DBPs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinfection_by-product Municipal water supplies are treated with oxidizing agents to kill pathogenic microbes. Unfortunately the reaction of these agents with other particulates can result in the formation of hazardous DBPs. We absorb DBPs…
Dips and Spreads
Love & hummus. Organic and vegan. Based in San Francisco (La Cocina). As of 2012 July 7 the product line consists of four types of hummus (cooked chick peas (garbanzos beans) with various seasonings) and a t-shirt.
Gluten-Free Product Suppliers
Gluten-Free = GF Schär – gluten-free products. Schar (or Dr. Schar), based in Burgstall, Italy, is one of the largest suppliers of GF products in Europe. On 2012 July 5 the company’s American branch, Dr. Schar USA, opened its first North American GF manufacturing plant in New Jersey in order to greatly expand the company’s…
Impact of Pesticides on Humans
The Brain-Damaging Chemical Lurking In Your Food – MSN Healthy Living – Health and Wellness. – 2012 July Prenatal exposure of the insecticide chlorpyrifos linked to subsequent brain damage (abnormal-sized brains, an autism signal). This insecticide is not allowed to be used on USDA Certified Organic crops.
Toxoplasmosis
Toxoplasma gondii – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20120702/cat-litter-parasite-may-raise-suicide-risk – WebMD – 2012 July 3 Recent findings of a correlation between human suicide and toxoplasmosis (infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii) coupled with past findings linking toxoplasmosis to schizophrenia and fetal damage raises a number of questions. How do we keep cats from getting infected? Do…
Feline Dementia
Old cats get Alzheimer’s too | COSMOS magazine. – 2006 December 6 From the Chelation Medical Center’s article on Alzheimers Aluminosilicates are found in talcum powder, asbestos, cat litter and cigarette smoke”. If you believe that aluminum is a cause of and/or exacerbates Alzheimers in felines (and humans!), then you’ve got one more reason to…
Dietary Fiber
Food Business News | Consumers mistaken on food sources of fiber. – 2011 February 24 ‘Strong moral fiber’ and fibrous (tough, chewy) foods are not substitutes for eating at least 25 grams of dietary fiber every day. (Two to three times that amount (50 – 75 grams) is best – so long as your water…