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L'il Bite of the Day - Insulin Requirements Drop for Diabetic Cats on Low-Carb Diets

1/12/2014

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For diabetic cats, it's critical to lower their carbohydrate consumption to less than 7 to ten percent of their daily calorie intake - and to know that as dietary carbohydrates go down, so will their insulin requirements.  


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Li'l Bite of the Day - Five Reasons to Stop With the Dry Food

10/8/2013

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1. The moisture in canned or home-prepared food is absolutely vital to your cat's urinary tract health

2. Most dry foods rely on grain-based proteins that have low biological value for obligate carnivores (cats)

3. The carbohydrates in dry food are high and harm a cat's blood sugar and insulin balance

4. Many dry foods contain ingredients that are allergenic to cats  

5. Many dry foods contain soy ingredients that can harm a cat's thyroid gland 



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L'il Bite of the Day - Pancreas and Insulin

8/15/2013

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A cat's pancreas has two main jobs: 1) making and storing digestive enzymes and fluids; 2) producing and releasing hormones that regulate blood sugar. 

The sugar released into the bloodstream from a a cat on a high-carbohydrate diet sends an alarm to the pancreas to produce insulin to lower the tide of sugar into a cat's system. A continual high level of insulin pumped into the cat's system causes an accumulation of fat in the cat's body - it's a natural response to an unnatural (for a carnivore) dietary situation. 

SO WHAT? Diets high in carbohydrates - such as dry kibble - raise a cat's risk for both obesity and feline type 2 diabetes.

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L'il Bite of the Day - High Protein Diets and Diabetes

8/3/2013

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Feeding a high-protein/low-carbohydrate diet to diabetic cats can very quickly reduce their overall insulin requirement.

SO WHAT? If you're changing your diabetic cat's diet to a lower carbohydrate diet (a good idea!), your cat can very quickly go into remission - and administering the same level of insulin can become very quickly dangerous. Learn more about how to deal with this issue safely on Dr. Lisa Pierson's web page on feline diabetes. 


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