Pet owners are increasingly feeding their animals a dangerously unhealthy diet of junk food, causing them to become obese.

Junk food is causing pet obesity epidemic
Article in the Sunday Telegraph

Extract:

"Researchers for The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals found that in the past year there has been a 10 per cent increase in the number of overweight animals.

Around 500,000 pets are affected, ranging from cats and dogs to rabbits, rats and even budgerigars.

They are suffering symptoms identified with obesity in humans, such as low energy levels, breathing problems, arthritis, asthma, diabetes, liver and heart disease and poor fertility."

It's the high levels of salt in junk food that cause the pets to become obese because of fluid retention. Pets need to be fed food which contains little or no added salt/sodium.

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A slimming club for fat cats and dogs! - It's quite unnecessary. - They just need to be eating food without added salt.

The slimming club for fat cats and dogs - Telegraph

Extracts:

"Half of dogs and cats in Britain are overweight, according to the RSPCA."

""A weight problem can affect a pet's quality of life and lead to straining of the joints, as well as internal illnesses like diabetes, liver disease and heart disease.""

Pet dogs and cats become overweight when they are fed food containing salt. This tends to happen if their owner gives them part of the owner's meal - a bit of a takeaway meal, for instance. - Takeaways tend to contain a lot of salt.

If you feed an overweight dog or cat food that has had no salt added, they will swiftly, easily and safely lose weight and will feel much more alert and energetic as a result.

Lose weight and improve your health by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
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Salty food is not good for your pet dog or cat. Don't feed them bits from a takeaway meal or a processed food meal. It could make them fat/diabetic.

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Britain's pet cats and dogs are becoming more and more obese - because they are being fed food containing salt.

Britain's fat cats face obesity crisis - Telegraph

Extract:

"A scientific study has found that increasing numbers of pet cats are being diagnosed with diabetes, with those that are overweight being three times more likely to suffer from the condition.

The research, based on 14,000 cats, found that one cat in 230 in the UK is now diabetic. Being male, neutered, overweight and not taking enough exercise - at least three of which apply to a large percentage of the human population - are the main risk factors.

The study by the University of Edinburgh is the first attempt to quantify diabetes in cats and suggests that the growth of the condition in pets is mirroring the increase in diabetes in people.

The research on feline health was released as it emerged that the NHS is spending nearly £1 million a week on slimming pills in a bid to control Britain's obesity epidemic, which is linked to an increase in human diabetes.

Diabetes is also on the increase in dogs, with figures suggesting that 40 per cent of dogs in the UK are overweight, and 25 per cent are obese.

Actually, if you have an overweight pet cat or dog it is because they have been eating food containing added salt - possibly part of one of your own meals - maybe a takeaway. (Takeaways are usually high in salt.) This is bad for them. Give them unsalted food instead. They will lose weight, have more energy and live longer.

Lose weight by eating less salt! Go on! - Try it! - You will feel so much better!
How to Lose weight!

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Read my Mensa article on Obesity and the Salt Connection

See Sodium in foods and

Associated health conditions

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http://www.wildeaboutsteroids.co.uk/socio.html - wider implications

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