Diabetic Cat Food - How You Can Reduce the Need for Insulin

It is now generally accepted that human diabetes isparticular diabetic cat food. Many, perhaps most,
an immune disorder. There seems no reason tocommercial cat food manufacturers use sugar as a
suppose that feline diabetes is any different. Thisfiller. It bulks out the meat and is cheap, with a world
particular immune disorder has the form of failure ofglut.
the pancreas to produce insulin.5. No cat food should not contain large amounts of
An immune system brakes down because of thecarbohydrates, which are a manistay part of almost
burden put upon it, mostly a chemical burden. Whenall processed cat foods, including those for diabetic
you consider all the chemicals most pets are subjectcats.
to, there is little wonder their immune systems go on6. The mineral chromium assists the body in utilising
strike. Drugs, vaccinations, pesticides in the garden,the insulin more efficiently, so the addition of half to
harsh cleaners in the house, but perhaps worse of allone teaspoon of brewers yeast to the diabetic cat
by virtue of it’s frequent ingestion, are thefood will help your cat. Chromium is also in liver, beef
preservatives in their daily diet.and spirulina.
A typical cat food is processed and comes in a box,7. Including vitamin E in the diabetic cat food reduces
packet or can. The dried cat food must contain highthe amount of insulin required. Vitamin E occurs
levels of preservative to keep it at roomnaturally in raw meat fat and spirulina. Vitamin E is
temperature, indefinitely, despite what the packetalso in eggs and wheat germ oil, but diabetic cat food
may say. Believe me, there’s no other way toshould be low in oil and fat, so while these are
have such a long shelf life.recommended, they should be in small quantities. You
Cats are particularly sensitive to chemicals, so readilycan also supplement it in the d alpha tocopheral (the
succumb to them. A stay in a cattery may wellnatural form). Try to avoid the synthetic form, which
overload them, as most catteries fastidiously cleanis more commonly used. Synthetic vitamins are not
their pens with strong disinfectants or bleach, toas well utilised by the cat. Dose 30 IU per day until
ensure there’s no cross contamination.you see improvement.
There are several things you can do immediately, to8. And play with your cat, so she gets some
help your cat overcome this serious disease, even ifexercise. Exercise tends to decrease the need for
they have had it a while. You never know how muchinsulin.
good you can do until you try.A good diabetic cat food, like any good cat food, is
1. The first thing that’s really important toas close to that of a wild cats food as possible. Cats
address is their diet. Start giving your cat a goodhave evolved to efficiently use raw food. They
quality, raw, diabetic cat food. Human grade rawcan’t use processed and cooked food in the
meat, from a butcher, will generally not contain anysame way, as they lack the nutrients destroyed by
preservatives or colour as most countries have lawscooking.
against that.Once you have your cat regularly eating good quality
2. It’s better to feed a diabetic cat 3 or 4 smallraw food, she may need less insulin. And if it isn’t
meals a day, rather than 1 or 2 larger meals.too far advanced, there’s no reason why she
3. Diabetic cat food differs slightly from a normalshouldn’t recover completely. Recovery from
healthy cat food by the fat content. The food mustserious disease is not uncommon when the cause is
be low fat (but not no fat), as the pancreas isaddressed. Ensuring your cat only eats a healthy, high
responsible for the production of enzymes which helpquality, raw, diet, at the very least will reduce her
break down fat.need for insulin.
4. No healthy cat food should contain any sugar, in