I represent Hill’s Pet Nutrition, Inc. and would like to answer your questions about the Science Diet Large Breed Canine Growth. This diet is intended to slow down the growth process of large breed puppies (puppies who are expected to be 55 lbs or larger as adults). Because of their exceptional growth rate, large breed puppies are very susceptible to developing a variety of bone and skeletal problems. This diet is formulated to ensure that the large breed puppy will develop at a normal, healthy rate.

To answer your question about your puppies size, the diet simply slows down the growth process. He will still reach his genetically predetermined weight, it will just take longer for him to get there. There seems to be ageneral dissatisfaction with vets on the nutrition subject. I have supposed for many years that vets get their information generally from the same place all the other so called experts do. From the dog food companies. How many people spoating off about nutrition have advanced degrees in nutrition? Not many. What are the credentials?

Who is paying for real research in dog food and nutrition? The dog food companies, thats who. I have talked with Dr. Dave Bebeak from Purina on several occasions and believe him to know as much about dog food and K9 nutrition as anyone. That soesn’t mean I feed Purina. I just listen. I really believe that no one knows more about automobiles than GM to but I don’t drive their cars. Face the facts. Everyone is trying to make a living. Generally the dog food advice you get from vets will be as good as you get from anyone else. That is to say that it will probaly be to general to have much meaning or it will be slanted toward their products that it should be disregarded.

After gaining a place in the Hall of Fame of the annual Clean and Green contest nationwide, Baguio is seeking the same place in the annual contest in nutrition. This was learned from Dr. Florence Reyes, city health officer who said that the city is now prepared for the annual visit and program assessment of the national nutrition council. Reyes said the nutrition evaluation team will be presented with the prepared documentary of Baguio’s nutrition program, random interview and survey of nutrition program beneficiaries and other scheduled activities. “In the event that we can be a hall of famer in the regional level, we will again aspire to the higher level of the annual award.

We do this not only for the honor and prestige of Baguio but to deliver our best social services to our countrymen”, said Reyes.I’m writing to invite everyone at alt.support.diet.rx to take a free subscription to Nutrition News Focus. As many of you know, Nutrition News Focus is a free daily email newsletter that teaches you how to understand the often confusing nutrition news that we’re all bombarded with every day. When the big nutrition stories are breaking, we often publish our analysis the very next day. Many people are exasperated by the contradictions they get in the nutrition news as reported by the popular press. Nutrition news is important. Don’t turn off to it just because it’s presented poorly.

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I have been wondering what the role of nutrition might have for the treatment of various cancers? While I was looking for information about the role of nutrition and the immune system, someone sent me Dr. Gianmichael Salvato’s letter. He was diagnosed with full-blown AIDS in 1983 and is still alive and doing well in his fight for survival. He refused chemical treatments and has been researching the nutritional aspects of treatment; his results are astounding. I was amazed by his story and his progress.

His research has obvious implications for anyone diagnosed with HIV, but significant implications extend to the general population as well.I totaly agree with you. I had to write and tell you this story. My mom has cancer colorectal with mets to the liver. She went in (was origonally treated at the Dana Farber Until they almost killed her)for her first round of chemo. On the first day I had been on her about changing her diet and reading books pertaining to Cancer and nutrition. I had picked up several books for her. She was starting to really get into the changing her diet and eating healthier and so on.

As I am sure you know it is a hard and slow process to change and really understand what we are putting in to our bodies and the effect it has on us. Well anyway The Nutritionist(Yeah Right Nutritionist) at the Dana Farber comes in to see my mom on her first chemo appointment sees some of the books on nutrition she was reading, looks at her and asks her why she is reading that junk. She then proceeds to tell my mother that there is no evedince that diet has any effect on Cancer, she said that is what the chemo is for, she continued to tell my mom that she could eat what ever she wants when ever she wants, Dairy, Red Meat, what ever, just live it up.

Needless to say they had to have me escorted out of there because I was ready to kill this moron. What you put in your body has a big impact on what your body does and it scares me to think we have people working with the sick calling themselves healthcare professionals and nutritionists and don’t acknowledge this. P.S. On the way into the chemo room the secretary keeps a fifty pound bowl of assorted candies and chocolates for the patients eating pleasure. it really is horrible.

Perhaps one of the greatest bones of contention I have as a veterinarian of over 50 years is the issue of feline nutrition. I peek into these Newsgroups now and then and have set up my own with E-Groups and far too many questions have to do with feline nutrition. cat is over-weight. iv) my cat is under-weight, should I be using dry food or wet food or should I be using a special kind of diet for my cat.v) Should I be feeding my cat soy products, rice, milk?vi) Which is the best food to get? vii) My cat has dandruff or dander or dry skin, should I be giving it a food supplement?

It goes on and on and on ad nausea. virtually nothing about feline nutrition. Everyone appeared to know how to feed their cats or the cats knew how to feed themselves. Come to think of it, I never have seen an old barn cat with food allergies, neither have I ever seen a feral cat with food allergies. Why some of these feral and barn cats are tougher than my x mother-in-law and she’s been dead 40 years. Might that not be because barn cats and feral cats are unlikely to be eating commercially processed foods?

Over-processed food isn’t good for humans, how can it be good for companion animals? How many times have we all heard doctors and nutritionists tell us not to buy and eat processed foods, but stick to fresh, unprocessed foods instead? My cat Tye, who has IBD and food allergies, cannot eat any kind of commercially processed cat food. Not even the “good stuff” like Wysong. But if it’s given to him fresh and unprocessed, he can eat a rather surprising variety of things – poultry, veggies, some kinds of fish. I have become convinced that it’s not so much the ingredients in the processed food that he can’t tolerate, but the fact that it’s processed (with whatever preservatives and additives that go into processed food).