Guest: Chelsea Kent
Regardless of where you stand in the "carbohydrates are good/bad" debate I think we can all agree that most if not all of us read the labels of the foods we eat and pay attention to the amount and type of carbohydrates in our diets. If you are a low-carbohydrate person you have your reasons. So when you're choosing a dog food don't you want to know just how many grams of carbohydrates are in your dog's food? While dogs are dying from the same diseases their owners die from, namely metabolic diseases that lead to things like cancer and autoimmune diseases, should we know if we are feeding them diets high in carbohydrates? Even if you decide "yes I want my dog to eat a diet made of over 50% carbohydrates" shouldn't you be able to look at the label and see a line that says your favorite dog food is mostly carbohydrates? We're talking about transparency here. Informed decisions. We are demanding that dog food manufacturers list the carbohydrate content on every bag of dog food!
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Show Notes:
Transparency: Why Aren't Carbohydrates in Dog Food Listed On Labels
[6:30] What is included on the nutrition label of a bag of dog food?
- Protein , fat, and ash crude measurements.
[8:00] Regardless of whether corn is healthy for your dog or not, it is actually a biofuel byproduct and not real corn.
- The “ash” nutrient includes these byproducts.
[16:13] Veterinarians are under-educated on nutrition.
[17:30] The advent of dry dog food.
- Increased shelf stability.
- Also increased the accumulation of AGE’s.
[18:40] The detrimental impact of AGE’s.
[20:30] Why is all-meat kibble leading to heart problems?
- The taurine is removed. Taurine levels that are too high or low could be the culprit.
- There is no such thing as an “all-meat” kibble.
[39:14] The push to make dog food labels look more like normal nutrition labels have be squelched.
[47:00] Most of the ingredients that are in dog food have been dehydrated.
- Imagine how much more calorically dense carbs are when they are dehydrated from 70-90% to 10% moisture.
[56:42] Should I add BCAA to dog food to increase leucine?
- Especially if you are feeding a low protein kibble.
- A more complete approach would utilize EAA’s instead.
[58:00] Do dogs do well with fructose?
- They develop fatty liver disease, similar to humans.
[1:00:00] What about canned salmon, sardines, and colostrum?
[1:02:00] Acellular carbohydrates feed pathogens in the gut.
- The upside is that dogs have very acidic stomachs so they are fairly resilient to pathogen accumulation, but aflatoxins and mycotoxins are usually a problem.
[1:13:50] The difficulty of getting a regulator to make changes.
- It involves fear and guilt.
