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Please speak with your veterinarian about any specific health
problems. We are not veterinarians and cannot give medical advice on treating
pets. If you’re not sure if a proper raw diet is right for your pet, feel
free to print out our nutrient profile and discuss it with your veterinarian.
The answers below represent what we have learned from research, science,
veterinary feeding trials, first-hand knowledge and our customers
testimonials. For a
list of holistic veterinarians, click here.
If your pet has not been fed
a raw diet before introduce Steve's Real Food slowly to your pet. You may
want to start with one nugget the first day, and increase to full time feeding
over a period of one to two weeks. Watch your pet carefully and please note
that not all health problems have a dietary factor.
Benefits to complete and balanced Steve's Real
Food for Pets diets:
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The major benefit to
Steve's Real Food for Pets is simply improved overall health. However, in actual cases reported to us and in studies done on raw
feeding, pet owners report changes, reductions or eliminations of the
following:
* Cleans and whitens teeth
naturally
* Cleans breath / reduces body
odor
* Reduces stool odor and
volume
* Weight Management
* Many phobic behaviors disappear such as: aggression, moodiness,
anxiety and fearful behavior
* Promotes calmness and
confidence
* Dramatically increases energy, endurance, alertness and
attention
* Strengthening and healing of the immune system and
organs
* More
affectionate
* Reduced
shedding
* Reduction in hairballs
* Allergies (such as: hot spots, cysts and eye tearing)
* Dermatitis (healthier skin, less shedding and a full shiny coat)
* Weight Problems
* Parasites (internal and external)
* Flea infestation
* Arthritis and hip dysplasia
* Ear and eye ailments
* Kidney and liver dysfunction
* Bladder Stones
* Urinary crystals and infections
* Diabetes
* Cancer
* Intestinal problems
* Bloat
* Diarrhea
* And much
more!
Frequently Asked Questions / Facts:
My dog has a long history of allergies. Can Steve’s help?
Most of the time.
We've seen many allergic dogs and cats benefit
from our food and from other properly prepared grain-free raw diets. Even
dogs diagnosed as "allergic to chicken" often thrive on Steve's
Real Food all human quality chicken variety.
Remember the need for variety! Research in humans
and laboratory animals clearly shows that insufficient variety can create
food allergies and intolerances. Feeding the same food day after day week
after week year after year is often the cause of the allergies.
My dog gets hot spots every year. Can Steve’s help?
Usually. Please see above answer to allergies.
My dog is limping. Can a change in diet help?
We’ve seen many dogs that were aging and starting to limp "get younger" on a proper raw diet. Indeed, it was when Steve Brown saw the dramatic improvement
in his older dog Garbo that he started working on Steve's Real Food.
My cat has diabetes.
Is it safe to feed her Steve’s?
Generally, yes.
Recent research has shown
that a high protein, low carbohydrate diet like Steve’s is a more beneficial
diet for diabetic cats who do not have weight problems than the traditional
high carbohydrate diabetic ration. Cats have a virtually nonexistent carbohydrate
metabolism; as such, if there is not enough dietary protein to make glucose
from, cats will catabolize their muscle protein. This produces a situation
where the diabetic cat begins wasting because her diet does not provide
sufficient protein. Furthermore, the high carbohydrate ration aggravates
hyperglycemia. If you have a diabetic cat, always check with a veterinarian
before changing diets. Steve’s may not be the optimal diet for diabetic
cats with obesity problems.
My cat has a history of feline urological syndrome (FUS).
Is it safe to feed her Steve's?
Yes. Our food was specifically designed to have
the proper amount of magnesium for cats with FUS.
How
can Steve's help to prevent cancer and be a natural diet for dogs and cats
with cancer?
Research clearly shows
that great nutrition helps to support and maintain all animals bodies
naturally, this is what nature intended. This includes helping to prevent
cancer along with being a natural diet for animals with cancer. Cancer is the #1 cause of
death in dogs and one of the leading concerns of cat owners as well.
We are finding that within the last 20 years dogs and cats are getting the
same aliments that humans have been getting for the last 50 years. And
one of the major changes has been nutrition, being the fact that most
peoples and pets diets consist now of highly processed foods.
All formulas of Steve's Real Food for pets combines a proven old-world formula using high-quality
human edible ingredients, with the best of modern functional foods to give
unmatched nutrition and help prevent cancer. Here are some of the
ingredients in Steve's Real Food for Pets that are proven to help prevent
cancer:
Natural phytochemicals, antioxidants and bioflavonoids: Research has
clearly shown that a diet rich in a variety of fresh, whole, raw vegetables and
fruits can help to prevent many forms of cancer, along with many other diet
related aliments.
FOS, (fructooligosaccharide
or inulin, labeled as extract of chicory)
This ingredient is a prebiotic compound that selectively stimulates growth
of bacteria beneficial to large bowel metabolism. FOS helps increase the
bioavailability of minerals. Research has shown that FOS helps prevent colon
cancer.
Omega-3's: A diet containing sufficient Omega-3 has been proven to improve a dog’s
and cat’s immune systems’ ability to fight all diseases. Real Food For
Pets uses Mighty Omega Plus™, which contains sardine, anchovy, flaxseed
oils and
natural antioxidants.
Natural enzymes:
Real Food For Pets contains thousands of metabolic, digestive, and food
enzymes only found in raw foods. Many studies with humans and laboratory
animals show that eating a diet rich in enzymes reduces the stress on the
digestive system, especially the pancreas, therefore reducing the incidence
of cancer.
What
veterinarians are saying about Steve's...
Veterinarians are a major part of
the Steve's Real Food For Pets development program. Many veterinarians – at first
are quite skeptical about raw meat-based diets – provided short and long term
feeding trials. Now they are among our most ardent supporters.
Perhaps the best testament is that
three of Steve's Real Food For Pets top five retail accounts are veterinary
offices. Here are a couple of testimonials of how they see first-hand
results:
"Based on the current
literature and our own experience, we believe that pets thrive on raw food
diets. They have more energy and vitality, their coats are thicker and
shinier, their teeth need cleaning less often, they have fewer allergy
problems and they live longer, healthier lives… Steve's Real Food For Pets, an
easy-to-feed, complete and balanced raw food diet for dogs is what we feed
our dogs and think it’s fantastic."
Dr. Doreen Hock, Eugene, OR
Speaking of a year-old Mastiff
which was brought to his office in critical condition, Dr. Charles W.
Coleman told us, "Without Real Food For Pets diet, that dog would
have died." Doctor Coleman treated two other dogs shortly thereafter
and said that the key element of the successful treatment was Real Food For
Pets. Doctor Coleman says unequivocally, "I’m trying to get
everybody on it. It’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me in my
whole career."
Some veterinarians love properly
prepared raw meat-based diets. Unfortunately, many others have no first-hand
experience with raw meat-based diets and may be reluctant to recommend them.
That is changing each day and more and more veterinarians are advocating for
raw meat-based diets.
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