[Sca-cooks] Dog nutrition, was: OOP - Fw: Jasper...

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

>
> Unfortunately, my source has disappeared.  :(
>
> I used to work for a company called BioValidity that reviewed medical
> and veterinary literature on dietary supplements (that is, vitamins,
> herbs and foods that were reputed to have health benefits.)  They had
> some of the top medical and veterinary researchers in the country
> reviewing and rating published research on hundreds of supplements,
> documenting the evidence for claims as well as precautions and so on.  I
> considered the quality of their work to be top notch.  When I looked up
> garlic for the traditional claim of helping with flea control (medically
> proven to be false, by the way,) I learned about the whole haemolytic
> anemia thing.  There were a number of studies listed.

Try looking in Agricola: http://www.nal.usda.gov/ag98/ag98.html
and
PubMed: http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

They should at least give citations for journal articles

Both available on the internet for free, at least until Jeb talks Dubbya
into closing the National Libraries of Medicine and Agriculture.

- Jenne, cranky librarian

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