Our Pets can Teach us a Lesson About Healthy Eating

By Dr. Michael Weir

“Don’t feed that to the dog, it’s not good for him!” I found myself
thinking this before I went to give my dog a piece of bread. Then,
instead of giving it to the dog, I ate it myself. The standard
American diet has gotten so out of control that we eat things that
we know are not even good for our pets! We can take a lesson from
our pets. For the most part our dogs and cats eat to live, not live
to eat as we as humans have gotten so good at doing. Animals eat as
much as they need for their bodies to survive. We usually eat till
that giant serving of lasagna on our plate is totally gone. We know that
we need to always have water for our pets and yet we rarely drink
enough water to keep us from dehydration.

Lets start to rethink our eating habits. Anything that you would not
feed to your pet probably should not be in your mouth.