Dear Darcie, As a faithful follower of your newsletter, I am sitting here stunned to read about diabetes and diet. I have been told by several vets that the only role diet plays in canine diabetes is that of low fat. Please tell me what you helped the pet parents of the lab to do to change the diet. I have a Min-Oin on insulin twice a day. I always read labels and none of my five dogs eat anything with any preservatives or dyes. What else can I do? Thank you. Diane
Hi Diane, Pretty incredible, isn’t it? Diabetes can be turned around in people too. With the right diet and exercise, great changes are being made in this world.
The chocolate lab simply started a raw food diet. Within 5 days her blood sugar was returning to normal. I see it over and over. When we feed dogs the diets that Nature intends for them to eat, they get well. It generally happens pretty quickly.
Processed foods are the culprit behind most illness: cancer, diabetes, kidney and liver disease. The dogs and we humans simply can’t process those kinds of food without diseasing our bodies. Since the 1950s, dogs and humans have suffered a great deal of illness and early death. That’s when dry dog foods, McDonalds, Kool Aid, and the TV dinner started being sold in the US.
A local breeder came to me just a few months ago. He’d started having dead puppies in the womb. The vets couldn’t figure it out. I suggested that he stop feeding processed dog food to his dogs and go to a raw food diet. Within just a few months, the animals are strong again. Crazy.
The thing I find most amazing in all of this is that our veterinarians continue to sell foods made of corn, they sure do keep a nice clientele that way. Three vets told me to my face that if they didn’t sell that food, they wouldn’t have a practice. They know what keeps dogs sick. It happens in our human medicine too. When doctors prescribe medicine for people without diet and exercise changes, they are simply keeping that person sick. Money talks. Just nuts!
There is a website you might like http://www.maximizedliving.com/story.aspx
I follow the Maximized Living nutrition plan and daily exercise and it works! (I don’t recommend things that I don’t experience first.)
The information is the same for our dogs as it is for us. We are all made the same way. A dog and a human digestive system have not changed from the very first of us on this planet. We were not intended to eat corn and certainly not in the quantities that it’s available to us in processed foods. It’s in nearly everything we eat. A cob of corn at a picnic is a nice thing. But corn is in nearly every label of processed food. Look for corn, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, anything ending in ose is a sugar of some sort…it’s not good for us.
People and all animals are intended to eat things that rot. Simple foods that grow, including meats, birds and eggs. Not processed foods and sugars. Corn is an exception, if you study how corn came about, you’ll get a better explanation about why it should be in our diets. When we do it right, we get well and stay well.
Corn is cheap. Why are people paying huge amounts of money for dog food or breakfast cereal that’s basic ingredient is corn? You’re paying for the advertising, marketing and the box or bag. Cattle growers feed corn to fatten a steak for us but those cattle are killed early before they start showing signs of illness. How can anyone expect a dog to eat corn twice a day for it’s whole life and still be well? It can’t.
Speaking of corn fed cattle, I have stopped eating it. I eat only grass fed beef. It’s good for me and it tastes so much better! No hormones or antibiotics in the meat I eat. Ever wonder why our human girls are starting their cycles earlier and earlier? Think hormones in our food.
I personally try very hard to eat right, I exercise daily. I treat my dogs the same way. I’ve helped turn dogs with illness into dogs bursting with health. Rewarding. That’s what we want for ourselves, our families and our animals. It’s a simple change.
Something that dogs need to eat that people don’t is raw bones. Dogs simply cannot be well unless they are ingesting the raw bones that Nature intends for them to eat. Don’t let your vet or the massive dog food marketing machine scare you away from what your dogs really need to be well.
SitStay.com carries the book Raw Dog Food. It’s a simple explanation for how to feed our animals. There have been wonderful books written about the raw food diet and SitStay has sold them all. This one is the simplest to understand and start with, get it to give yourself permission to start feeding your dog the way Nature wants them to eat. I think you’re going to be incredibly happy when you see the changes in your dogs.
I’ve been on a mission for over 15 years to help people keep money in their pockets instead of paying vets to diagnose and treat things they don’t even know about. My opinion is backed up by dogs (and people) who have found wellness.
I hope this helps. 
Hugs to your dogs (and the cats too),
Darcie (Founder of SitStay.com)
