Category Archives: Health

Homemade Cat Food: Canned/Pre-cooked Fish

Posted on May 25, 2020 by Cat

By Cat, May 2020 (Image, right, from Wikimedia Commons) After reading a Mercola article about the importance of serving homemade food for your pets (9), I’ve decided to introduce homemade cat food to my elderly cats. I prefer making food … Continue reading →

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Homemade Cat-food (About)

Posted on May 10, 2020 by Cat

By Cat, May 10, 2020 I’ve been feeding my cats both canned cat food and kibble over the years; I prefer canned food because it provides moisture they need, but they prefer kibble. Recently my Charlie cat (black and white … Continue reading →

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Fat Soluble Vitamin K

Posted on June 13, 2019 by Cat

By Cat, June 2007; Updated June 2019 Dr Weston Price, a dentist who studied indigenous people around the world, found that primitive peoples all had a diet rich in fat soluble vitamins, whether they ate largely meat, fish, or vegetables.  These … Continue reading →

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Fat-Soluble Vitamin F

Posted on June 11, 2019 by Cat

By Cat, June 2019 Vitamin F is another name for essential fatty acids; see my post: Essential Fatty Acids: A Case of Balance for more about these essential fatty acids. Early in the research of Dr. Weston A. Price, he discovered a … Continue reading →

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Fat Soluble Vitamin E

Posted on June 9, 2019 by Cat

By Cat, June 2007; Updated June 2019 There are two main types in the fat-soluble vitamin E family: tocopherols and tocotrienols, each of which is divided into four sub-types: alpha, beta, gamma and delta, for a total of 8 sub-types in … Continue reading →

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Fat Soluble Vitamin D

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Cat

By Cat, June 2007; Updated May 2019 It is difficult to talk about Vitamin D without also discussing Vitamin A, as they are so intricately linked, metabolically, and are both fat soluble. Unfortunately, combining them in one article made it too … Continue reading →

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Fat Soluble Vitamin A

Posted on June 3, 2019 by Cat

By Cat, June 2007; Updated May 2019 It is difficult to talk about Vitamin A without also discussing Vitamin D, as they are so intricately linked, metabolically, and are both fat soluble. Unfortunately, combining them in one article made it too … Continue reading →

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Vitamins: Water Soluble C

Posted on May 26, 2019 by Cat

By Cat, June 2007; updated May 2019 Vitamin C is considered essential for humans because we lack the enzyme necessary to produce ascorbic acid in the liver from glucose. For this reason, it is vital that we include it in our daily … Continue reading →

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Vitamins: Water Soluble B-Complex

Posted on May 24, 2019 by Cat

https://www.catsfork.com/CatsKitchen/diet-and-health-menu/%E2%80%8E(opens%20in%20a%20new%20tab)By Cat, June 2007; updated 2016 and May 2019 There are 8 essential (cannot be made by the body and must be obtained from diet/supplements), and 4 “non-essential” B-vitamins (can be made by the body, but this ability decreases with age). … Continue reading →

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Vitamins (Intro)

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Cat

By Cat, June 2007; updated May 2019 Vitamins are essential nutrients that the body needs but cannot make – it doesn’t have the enzymes – so they must be obtained in our diet, or made by a healthy microbiome. In … Continue reading →

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