Home Prepared Dog and Cat Diets or Best Low Fat No Sugar Bread Machine Cookbook Ever

Home-Prepared Dog and Cat Diets: The Healthful Alternative

Author: Donald R Strombeck

With an eye to the long-term health of pets, Dr Donald Strombeck outlines diets that the care giver can prepare at home or in the clinic. He offers nutritional and dietary guidance for animals with particular problems, from obesity, allergies, and gastrointestinal complaints to diseases of the kidney, pancreas, heart and joints. Each recipe includes nutrient content for proteins, fats and calories and all rely on unprocessed foods that are widely available and marketed for human consumption. Full of useful information about nutritional and dietary needs of cats and dogs, this book will be an indispensable guide for all those who are particular about what they feed their pets or their feline and canine patients.

Marcella D. Ridgway

This is a pet owner's guide to pet nutrition and home-preparation of balanced diets for dogs and cats. This soft-bound book addresses general concepts of pet nutrition and features over 200 recipes for computer-balanced diets for normal pets and pets with medical problems requiring special dietary modification. The purpose is to provide a handbook for preparing homemade diets which are complete and balanced for healthy or sick pets from foods marketed for human consumption and thus to give pet owners a choice in their pet's diet. The author's goal of providing alternative diets that are owner-prepared from wholesome ingredients and nutritionally adapted for specific disease conditions as well as for normal life-stages is well met. This book is written for pet owners who prefer to prepare their pets' food rather than use commercial pet food and for owners of pets with special nutritional requirements for which no available commercial diet is suitable. It is also useful for veterinarians treating pets with medical conditions requiring dietary modification; this is a source of recipes for balanced alternative diets which may benefit some inappetant patients or those accustomed to human food that refuse to eat appropriate commercial diets. The writing is often technical and presumes a higher level of understanding than appropriate for a basic owner-oriented guide, using technical terms without definition or clarification. The 18 chapters are organized generally by specific health condition (e.g. normal dogs and cats, renal disease), with a brief list of references after each chapter and a comprehensive index. Each chapter addresses basic concepts of pathophysiology and rationales forspecific dietary restrictions, and features detailed recipes for diets appropriate for the particular disease. A variety of diets utilizing different ingredients are provided and recipes include a summary of caloric, protein, and fat content and, for many recipes, options for further modification of the recipe to accommodate more stringent dietary requirements. This book does not address palatability of these diets. I find much of the text of this book to be unsupported opinion presented as fact. What references are cited are often weak, such as class notes which are not peer-reviewed. The author condemns the commercial pet food industry and much of veterinary practice; he also implies commercial pet foods are causing many medical conditions with no objective evidence to support such claims. In fact, many inaccuracies and false statements occur throughout the text. The author strongly criticizes the pet food industry for failing to utilize feeding trials to verify the adequacy of commercial diets, then promotes computer-formulated diets never evaluated by feeding trials as most balanced and healthful for pets. Additionally, the book is poorly written and suffers from frequent errors in grammar and sentence structure, redundancies, and poor organization. While the book is useful as a compilation of computer-balanced alternative diets for patients preferring or requiring home-made diets, I would hesitate to recommend it as a valid resource for owners as it is inaccurate, contradictory, and misleading. It is best suited as a reference in the hands of a professional who can present the material objectively and compensate for the inaccuracies presented.

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Reviewer: Marcella D. Ridgway, V.M.D., M.S., D.A.C.V.I.M. (University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine)
Description: This is a pet owner's guide to pet nutrition and home-preparation of balanced diets for dogs and cats. This soft-bound book addresses general concepts of pet nutrition and features over 200 recipes for computer-balanced diets for normal pets and pets with medical problems requiring special dietary modification.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a handbook for preparing homemade diets which are complete and balanced for healthy or sick pets from foods marketed for human consumption and thus to give pet owners a choice in their pet's diet. The author's goal of providing alternative diets that are owner-prepared from wholesome ingredients and nutritionally adapted for specific disease conditions as well as for normal life-stages is well met.
Audience: This book is written for pet owners who prefer to prepare their pets' food rather than use commercial pet food and for owners of pets with special nutritional requirements for which no available commercial diet is suitable. It is also useful for veterinarians treating pets with medical conditions requiring dietary modification; this is a source of recipes for balanced alternative diets which may benefit some inappetant patients or those accustomed to human food that refuse to eat appropriate commercial diets. The writing is often technical and presumes a higher level of understanding than appropriate for a basic owner-oriented guide, using technical terms without definition or clarification.
Features: The 18 chapters are organized generally by specific health condition (e.g. normal dogs and cats, renal disease), with a brief list of references after each chapter and a comprehensive index. Each chapter addresses basic concepts of pathophysiology and rationales for specific dietary restrictions, and features detailed recipes for diets appropriate for the particular disease. A variety of diets utilizing different ingredients are provided and recipes include a summary of caloric, protein, and fat content and, for many recipes, options for further modification of the recipe to accommodate more stringent dietary requirements. This book does not address palatability of these diets.
Assessment: I find much of the text of this book to be unsupported opinion presented as fact. What references are cited are often weak, such as class notes which are not peer-reviewed. The author condemns the commercial pet food industry and much of veterinary practice; he also implies commercial pet foods are causing many medical conditions with no objective evidence to support such claims. In fact, many inaccuracies and false statements occur throughout the text. The author strongly criticizes the pet food industry for failing to utilize feeding trials to verify the adequacy of commercial diets, then promotes computer-formulated diets never evaluated by feeding trials as most balanced and healthful for pets. Additionally, the book is poorly written and suffers from frequent errors in grammar and sentence structure, redundancies, and poor organization. While the book is useful as a compilation of computer-balanced alternative diets for patients preferring or requiring home-made diets, I would hesitate to recommend it as a valid resource for owners as it is inaccurate, contradictory, and misleading. It is best suited as a reference in the hands of a professional who can present the material objectively and compensate for the inaccuracies presented.

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Strombeck, a professor at U. of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine, and long-time small animal medicine practitioner, presents concerned animal lovers with the ability to provide a worthwhile alternative to commercial dietary products for their pets. He offers recipes appropriate for both healthy and diseased animals, fundamental nutritional information, and data on food quality and safety. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Rating

2 Stars from Doody

Table of Contents:

	Preface
Pt. 1	Food Quality and Safety
1	Introduction	3
2	Food Quality and Wholesomeness	21
3	Food Safety and Preparation	43
Pt. 2	Feeding Normal Dogs and Cats
4	Canine and Feline Energy Requirements	65
5	Feeding a Normal Dog or Cat	79
Pt. 3	Food Intolerance and Allergy
6	Adaptation to the Diet	127
7	Evaluation of Gastrointestinal Disease	143
8	Diet and Gastrointestinal Disease	161
9	Digestive Tract Environment: Protection of Its Integrity	189
10	Diet and Skin Disease	203
Pt. 4	Diet-Induced Disease
11	Feeding to Manage Obesity	217
12	Diet-Related Skeletal and Joint Diseases in Dogs	237
Pt. 5	Dietary Management of Disease
13	Diet and Chronic Renal Disease	253
14	Diet and Urinary Tract Stone Disease	279
15	Diet and Endocrine Disease	299
16	Diet and Heart Disease	307
17	Diet and Pancreatic Disease	321
18	Diet and Hepatic Disease	335
	Index	352

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Best Low-Fat, No-Sugar Bread Machine Cookbook Ever

Author: Madge Rosenberg

The Lean Machine

Now you can enjoy all the bread you want without any worry about fat. Over 150 irresistible recipes in this volume transform your bread machine from an efficient home bakery into an invaluable aid to nutrition. Most of these aromatic loaves contain 5 percent or less of fat. on top of that, these fresh-baked doughs contain absolutely no sugar or artificial sweeteners. All that is added are natural fresh and dried fruits, vegetables, and grains forextra flavor and vitamins, minerals, and fiber.

Recipes run the gamut from mildly sweet, subtly flavored "Breakfast Breads," like Cranberry Buns, Banana Buttermilk Bread, and Whole Wheat Raisin Bagels, to chewy, firm-slicing "Sandwich Breads," such as Seven-Grain Bread, Lentil Bread, and Italian Sourdough. Creative bakers will love the assortment of stuffed and shaped breads and dumplings and such appetizers as Fresh Tomato Pizza and Chinese Dried Mushroom Dumplings made easily with dough from the bread machine. For people on a low-sodium diet, or smart eaters who just want to cut down on the amount of sodium they ingest, there is an entire chapter on "No-Salt Breads," including many traditional favorites such as Salt-Free Pumpernickel and Salt-Free Onion Rye.

You won't believe the no-sugar sweets-Tart Tatin, Chocolate Tea Bread, and Biscotti with Dried Cherries are just a sampling -- that make up the "Dessert Breads" chapter. These taste luxuriously rich but are low in fat. And so that there's no waste, ideas included in "Bread Again" offer tasty low-fat, no-sugar ways to use leftover loaves.