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"And compared with those who have no pets, pet owners make fewer trips to the doctor. Not too long ago researchers at Baker Medical Research Institute in Prahan, Australia, compared blood pressure and cholesterol levels in 784 pet owners and 4,957 people who had no pets. The pet owners' levels were significantly lower, suggesting that pet ownership may help prevent heart disease. Dog owners must walk their dogs, which is an excellent way to get regular, moderate exercise." - Michael Castleman, Nature's Cures: From Acupressure and Aromatherapy to Walking and Yoga--The Ultimate Guide to the Best, Scientifically Proven, Drug-Free Healing Methods (Get the book.)

"Of note, Salmonella can also exist in animal feces and thus pet owners, including reptile owners, should be careful to wash their hands after handling pets and/or their excrement. Animal researchers are working with probiotics to see if they can help reduce the presence of Salmonella in the feces of farmed animals to reduce the likelihood of human food contamination. At the University College in Ireland, researchers divided pigs into two groups, one of which received regular milk, while the other received milk containing five probiotic strains." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, Superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.)

"Cats are carnivores and require a good source of meat in their diets. So pet owners who think it's okay to just feed their cats a dry food are not providing a healthy diet. Grains will not provide the cat with sufficient amounts of taurine, arachidonic acid, vitamin A or vitamin B-12. Toxic Substances in Grain The contamination of grains used in pet food, particularly mycotoxins, can be deadly. Mycotoxins are toxic substances produced by fungi in moldy grains and they are found in rye, corn, barley, oats, wheat, peanuts, Brazil nuts, pecans, and walnuts." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"In another study, at the University of Oklahoma, a group of recent widows who were pet owners seemed to adjust better to the death of a spouse—both physically and psychologically—than a group who didn't own pets. Dr. Hiroko Akiyama, who conducted the study, says "Non-pet owners, for example, had more persistent fears, headaches, and feelings of panic. They also tended to take more drugs than the pet owners." In light of such studies, it comes as no surprise that a healthy home has healthy, happy pets with personalities that match up well with those in the family." - Linda Mason Hunter, The Healthy Home: An Attic-to-Basement Guide to Toxin-Free Living (Get the book.)

"Not too long ago researchers at Baker Medical Research Institute in Prahan, Australia, compared blood pressure and cholesterol levels in 784 pet owners and 4,957 people who had no pets. The pet owners' levels were significantly lower, suggesting that pet ownership may help prevent heart disease. Dog owners must walk their dogs, which is an excellent way to get regular, moderate exercise. But owners of cats, birds, fish and iguanas show similar health benefits, so there has to be more to the pet advantage than just exercise." - Kevin Trudeau, Natural Cures (Get the book.)

"They have to attempt to educate pet owners about how to keep their pets healthy. And the number one way to do that is to give their pets outstanding nutrition so that they don't experience disease in the first place. Nutrition and farm animals Moving on from household pets and dogs, let's look at some other mammals where the relationship between nutrition and health is rather apparent. I'm talking about farm animals. And ranchers tend to have solid knowledge about the correlation between nutrition and disease." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"He undertakes this research because pet owners want dogs who defecate infrequently but still have healthy colons, so he fulfills this demand. The dogs involved in this study were purchased as puppies from an operation that has been cited countless times for animal neglect. Now, the dogs are housed in the windowless basement of the Edward Madigan Lab at the University of Illinois and do not even have minimal comforts such as bedding and little interaction with other dogs or humans. Marino reported the abuse to the Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights (AVAR)." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "I have read many sad stories by pet owners about the deaths of their animal companions after eating bones and succumbing to the bacteria in raw meat. One letter described a terrier, who, after vomiting, collapsed on his side in a pool of thick, bloody diarrhea. Radiographs revealed bone fragments in the stomach and intestines. The owner had been feeding raw chicken backs, necks, and wings. In another case, a golden retriever died from several small vertebral bodies, which had lodged in the lower end of the small intestines and perforated the intestinal wall." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.) "It will take hundreds of rhousands of concerned pet owners putting pressure on government and pet food manufacturers before we see changes. There is strength in numbers. Circulate petitions and send them to your representatives. You can also submit a citizens' petition on behalf of your group to the FDA/CVM, requesting a ban on the use of diseased, condemned, or contaminated material in commercial pet foods." - Ann N. Martin, Food Pets Die For: Shocking Facts About Pet Food (Get the book.)

"In addition their blood pressure drops and their mental functioning and outlook improves. As pet owners already know, having a friend with a wagging tail around just makes you feel better. Children relax and calm down with a dog around. Dolphin therapy began in the 1970s in South Florida as a motivation to reinforce selected behaviors in children with Down Syndrome. Today many marine parks offer dolphin therapy for a variety of benefits to people of all ages. There are some reports of dolphins helping to heal health problems, possibly by using their sonar in some way we don't understand yet." - Alan E. Smith, UnBreak Your Health: The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"There is good news on the health front for pet owners. A study of heart attack victims one year after the attack revealed that pet owners had one-fifth the death rate when compared with the petless. And it didn't seem to matter what kind of pet the person owned. Since most people don't walk their pet fish or lizards as they do their dogs, increased physical exercise could hardly account for these striking differences. It may have something to do with the sense of responsibility experienced by pet owners." - Robert Ornstein, David Sobel, The Healing Brain: Breakthrough Discoveries About How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy (Get the book.)

"Reduces gastric ulcerations Aids the liver in detoxification Prevents cataracts Protects the eyes and brain Decreases pain Increases endurance Improves fertility Reduces stillborn deaths Prevents DNA damage Prevents cell membrane damage Prevents enlargement of lymph nodes Improves growth rate in young animals Improves survival rate Granted, some of the work cited is from preliminary studies and further research is needed, but with this exhaustive list of potential benefits, pet owners should be giving Natural Astaxanthin to their pets every day. (As well as taking it themselves!" - Bob Capelli, ASTAXANTHIN: Natural Astaxanthin, King of the Carotenoids (Get the book.)

"And yet classic medical dogma paints a pretty sad picture for pet owners. You can be bitten, scratched, or clawed. You can get rabies or ringworm or even, from parrots, a rare lung disease. Nevertheless, people persist in owning pets. Over one-half of American homes have one or more pets. There is good news on the health front for pet owners. A study of heart attack victims one year after the attack revealed that pet owners had one-fifth the death rate when compared with the petless. And it didn't seem to matter what kind of pet the person owned." - Robert Ornstein, David Sobel, The Healing Brain: Breakthrough Discoveries About How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy (Get the book.)

"Not too long ago researchers at Baker Medical Research Institute in Prahan, Australia, compared blood pressure and cholesterol levels in 784 pet owners and 4,957 people who had no pets. The pet owners' levels were significantly lower, suggesting that pet ownership may help prevent heart disease. Dog owners must walk their dogs, which is an excellent way to get regular, moderate exercise. But owners of cats, birds, fish and iguanas show similar health benefits, so there has to be more to the pet advantage than just exercise." - Michael Castleman, Nature's Cures: From Acupressure and Aromatherapy to Walking and Yoga--The Ultimate Guide to the Best, Scientifically Proven, Drug-Free Healing Methods (Get the book.)

"Many veterinarians are now prescribing it, and arthritic pet owners are now sharing their own bottle with their arthritic pets to great effect. I can understand internal scars (lesions and adhesions), but what about external scarring? It will still work on surface scarring, just as it will on diabetic ulcers and the similar problems. By continually digesting the scar tissue, healthy tissue will eventually replace the old scar. It may not completely eradicate all of the scarring, but the worse the scarring, the better the visual benefits." - Robert Redfern, The Miracle Enzyme Is Serrapeptase (Get the book.)

"Fortunately for pet owners, a new generation of veterinarians have begun taking a more holistic approach to the matter. They have placed nutrition first and focused on the dog's diet. They have counseled pet owners that feeding their canines processed commercial diets are placing such animals at high risk for this disease. Diets comprised largely of meat and poultry by-products with additional chemical preservatives, dyes, and fillers are especially notorious for inducing such a crippling animal disorder." - Dr. John Heinerman, Natural Pet Cures: Dog & Cat Care the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"For this reason it is very well tolerated by children. pet owners love to use black walnut as a natural worming option, and it is also used in heart-worm programs for a safer approach to killing them than the drugs. Roman lore claimed that in the "Golden Age" when people lived on acorns, the gods feasted upon walnuts, which were considered far superior to other such vulgar nuts as acorns, beechnuts, and chestnuts." - Dianne Onstad, Whole Foods Companion: A Guide For Adventurous Cooks, Curious Shoppers, and lovers of natural foods (Get the book.)

"The pet owners' levels were significantly lower, suggesting that pet ownership may help prevent heart disease. Dog owners must walk their dogs, which is an excellent way to get regular, moderate exercise. But owners of cats, birds, fish and iguanas show similar health benefits, so there has to be more to the pet advantage than just exercise. Increasingly, researchers believe that pet companionship provides many of the benefits of close human ties. Federal law now says that elderly or handicapped residents of federally subsidized housing must be permitted to keep pets." - Michael Castleman, Nature's Cures: From Acupressure and Aromatherapy to Walking and Yoga--The Ultimate Guide to the Best, Scientifically Proven, Drug-Free Healing Methods (Get the book.)

"Other pet owners may want to use canned pet food, baby food, or broth to get their animals to eat it. A great success story involving a horse was told to me by one woman who treated her 20-year-old horse named "Lad" for melanoma with Protocel. Lad was a white Arabian-Bay mix (about 90 percent Arabian) and was suffering from a type of melanoma that light-skinned horses often get. Lad had melanoma spots on various parts of his body and one bulging tumor that had originated inside his right ear that was growing outward as well as inward." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"One study of 5,741 people in Melbourne, Australia, showed that pet owners had lower levels of blood pressure and cholesterol than non-owners—even when both groups had the same heart-harming habits, like smoking or a high-fat diet. In another study, a group of 96 heart attack survivors were studied for a year after they were released from the University of Maryland School of Medicine's coronary care unit in Baltimore. The researchers found that more pet owners were still alive a year later than those without pets to go home to." - Doug Dollemore, Mark Giuliucci and the Editors of Men's Health Magazine, Age Erasers for Men: Hundreds of Fast and Easy Ways to Beat the Years (Get the book.)

"When dosing animals, however, the above instructions are only general. pet owners may need to adjust the dose size or frequency to their animal's specific situation. If the above dosing only brings about stabilization, an extra dose can be administered and all doses can be spaced more frequently around the clock. Or Protocel Formula 50 can be tried instead of Formula 23. How Effective Is Protocel for Cancer? This is a difficult question to answer with specific numbers. Cancer is not a "simple" condition like a single virus infection." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"Another interesting feature that has been reported by many pet owners using the mussel extract on a pet is the regrowth of fur and hair where bald patches previously existed. Typical comments from pet owners who have used the mussel extract on their animals have been, "I could not believe that my old dog could change so dramatically in such a short time, from his lethargic, uninterested state to the vibrant dog that now greets me at the door with his leash in his mouth anxious to get out for a walk." - John Croft, Health from the Seas: Freedom from Disease (Get the book.)

"Barry Farber, who has a syndicated radio talk show, heard about our success with pets and asked us to participate in his Sunday show and share the good news with other pet owners. Lorraine appeared with me on his talk show on Sunday, July 25, 2004. She told a national audience about her experiences using sea salt to cure disease in pets in her charge. A prominent Forty-Fort, Pa., veterinarian is now telling his clients to put their pets on sea salt because of the great results he has been seeing also, as are a number of other vets in the area." - Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, Obesity Cancer & Depression: Their Common Cause & Natural Cure (Get the book.)

"They usually informed pet owners that it was incurable and treated suffering animals with steroids, nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS), and analgesics to reduce the severe pain and inflammation. For those who could afford it, hip-replacement surgery that cost several thousand dollars per hip was often recommended. Until only recently, hip dysplasia had pretty much been a death sentence for most canines. Fortunately for pet owners, a new generation of veterinarians have begun taking a more holistic approach to the matter. They have placed nutrition first and focused on the dog's diet." - Dr. John Heinerman, Natural Pet Cures: Dog & Cat Care the Natural Way (Get the book.)

"FDA officials said that most of the by-products ended up in pet food, but this fate cannot be confirmed (and would be unlikely to reassure pet owners, regardless). Inspections revealed that 20% of about 2,500 feed mills handling meat-and-bone meal took no precautions to prevent the meal from getting into animal feed. No federal agency tests for prohibited material in feed for cattle. Worse, the bans on use of meat-and-bone meal do not apply to other farm animals such as pigs or chickens because officials assume that feed for these animals never enters the food supply for cows or people." - Marion Nestle, Safe Food: Bacteria, Biotechnology, and Bioterrorism (Get the book.)

"A study of heart attack victims one year after the attack revealed that pet owners had one-fifth the death rate when compared with the petless. And it didn't seem to matter what kind of pet the person owned. Since most people don't walk their pet fish or lizards as they do their dogs, increased physical exercise could hardly account for these striking differences. It may have something to do with the sense of responsibility experienced by pet owners. They may have an added incentive to survive in order to continue to care for their animal companions, who depend upon them." - Robert Ornstein, David Sobel, The Healing Brain: Breakthrough Discoveries About How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy (Get the book.)

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