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I am reading about carraggenans in pet foods and why is it a concern. The substance is a polysaccharide extract from red seaweeds that is used for its gelling, thinkenings, and stabilizing properties. Are there downsides? From Wikepedia, “Scientists have raised serious concerns about the safety of carrageenan in food, based on laboratory animal studies showing gastrointestinal inflammation, ulcerations and colitis-like disease in animals given food-grade carrageenan in their drinking water or diet.[2][3][4] Some physicians advise avoiding consumption of foods with carrageenan, especially for people with gastrointestinal symptoms.[5]”
Also from Wikepedia,
“Starting in the late 1960s, research has linked food-grade carrageenan to gastrointestinal disease in laboratory animals, including ulcerative colitis-like disease, intestinal lesions and ulcerations and colon cancer.[22][23][24][25]
In 1981, two scientists wrote in the British medical journal The Lancet: “we wish to reiterate our warning in relation to the long-term dangers in the continued use of carrageenan in our food.”[3]
Recent research, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, has identified how carrageenan’s unique chemical structure may trigger an immune response in the body; this immune response in turn may lead to inflammation of the intestines.[26][27]Chronic, low-grade inflammation is a precursor to more serious disease, including colon cancer.
A 2012 study showed that mice given food-grade carrageenan in the diet exhibited impaired glucose tolerance and increased insulin resistance.[28]“
The news online and otherwise has been filled with stories about pet food recalls and the top culprit seems to be salmonella. When a dog or cat comes down with salmonella poisoning, it is an ugly and painful experience. The truth is, salmonella is almost everywhere but the important part of the story is how much doe the animal get. All dogs have experienced some level of salmonella but the part that is really dangerous is when the pathogen attaches itself to the intestinal wall and begins to colonize and the population grows by leaps and bounds. This is when your dog gets really sick.
There is an organic and very innovative product on the market that is called Bio-Mos. It is actually a mannan oligosacharide which is an extract of molecules of yeast. These “mos” products do some very good things to a dog with one of the very important effects that it prevents the pathogens from colonizing and growing on the intestinal wall. The substance virtually locks onto the bacteria and escorts it out of the dogs body in the form of feces.
Triad Performance Supplement is now added to Bio-Mos to help counteract and reduce the damage done by salmonella. Thanks to Build A Better Dog you can have more peace of mind when you top dress Triad onto your favorite pet food for your beloved pet.
The Charlotte Pet Expo is coming on May 18 indoors at the beautiful Park Expo Center. There will be over 100 exhibitors, discount vaccinations & microchipping, pet costume and talent contest, agility demonstrations, mega adoption event, great pet products, free nail trims, tons of family entertainment and so much more.
The event will begin at 10:00am on Saturday morning and go on until 6:00 pm.
A lot of people have heard of chelated minerals but are not sure what they are. The term chelate comes from the Greek meaning “claw” and if you will picture a claw clamped down on some object, that is what a true chelated mineral is. It is a molecule of a mineral surrounded by two amino acids. The advantage of chelated minerals is the molecules have limited size and the minerals are in their pure form and do not have to be broken down before they are absorbed. This makes mineral absorption fast, simple, and efficient.
There is only one true chelated mineral that meets this definition and that is “metal amino acid chelates” which will be displayed on a feed product with the name of the mineral followed by the term amino acid chelate, like zinc amino acid chelate.
This is the type of minerals you will find in products produced by Build A Better Dog These amino acid chelates have never been equaled in performance and reliability by any other products on the market.
