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31 mar 2007

Medical experts and nutritionists continually encourage people to eat more of certain food types to promote general well-being and overall health. Emerging scientific evidence shows that some foods can help to treat and even prevent certain conditio...

01 apr 2006

As pets are now living well into geriatric ages it is everyone's responsibility to keep them as healthy as possible. The high metabolic demands of the eye are now a priority for antioxidant research.

01 apr 2005

As we include more cereals in dry petfood, the risk of mycotoxicoses in pet animals increases. Most obviously affected are dogs and cats, but mainly because cases are identified. Unfortunately, this problem cannot be contained solely by petfood manuf...

01 jun 2003

The nutrient allowances of the past are often considered deficiencies nowadays, and today’s nutraceuticals are destined to become the allowances of the future. As the focus for petfoods changes from survival to longevity, so must diets change to help...

01 aug 2002

Petfood and feed for commercial farm animals are usually of excellent nutritional quality. Yet there is much to gain, in improved health and well being of animals, by enriching diets with non-nutritional components that provide proper exercise to th...

01 jun 2002

The results of the first ever life-long study of feed intake and health in dogs are in, and make interesting reading. Similarly to human health, cutting a dog’s feed intake by 20% can add almost two health years to a dog’s life.

01 jun 2002

Future developments in pet nutrition will allow the pet food manufacturers to provide diets that optimise the health and well being of companion animals by preventing incidence of chronic disease. Part two of this pet nutrition article (part one was...

01 may 2001

Many of the recent advances in pet nutrition have evolved from investigations to understand in more detail the physiological requirements of the animal. As a result, many ‘non-essential’ nutrients are now being seen to have a significant impact on t...

01 mar 2001