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	Susan Wynn, DVM, is currently the president of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association and founder and executive director of the Veterinary Botanical Medicine Association. She is the co-author of several books, including Veterinary Herbal Medicine, Manual of Natural Veterinary Medicine: Science and Tradition, and Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine: Principles and Practice. Wynn is also the founder of and a contributing writer for www.altvetmed.org, an information site for holistic animal care.

Natural Health: Online Summer Series

Nutrition for Dogs and Cats
with Susan Wynn

During the past decades, the pet food industry has provided convenient and economical foods for domestic animals. Because the public has become comfortable with the idea that commercial pet foods can provide complete and balanced nutrition for the life of the animal, a basic diet is no longer generally considered an important source of illness. Pet owners and veterinarians have literally been trained to look elsewhere for causes and treatment options. By ignoring the basic diet when advising pet owners, doctors and retailers are forgetting basic physiological principles: the importance of fresh and varied foods in the diet and biochemical individuality. For animals with problems, a change of diets can lead to a discovery of basic illness signs easily remedied with food therapy.

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