An Introduction to Holistic Pet Health by John Burns
of modern thought is geared to seeing the individual as a series
of separate systems which function independently of each other.
We have specialists for skin, kidneys, nervous system, bones,
heart and so on.
Food companies produce whole ranges
of veterinary-only diets, each food designed to treat or prevent
a specific health problem. Diets are developed containing supplements
to promote healthy joints or immune systems, clean teeth, prevent
hairball and so on.
At any time there are many thousands
of biochemical and physiological reactions occurring in the body.
These reactions are co-ordinated and controlled in ways which
have evolved over millions of years and which we can barely begin
to understand. Any effort to influence these reactions is crude
and limited compared to the body's own capabilities.
The objective of Holistic Medicine
is to follow a lifestyle which provides the conditions for the
body to maintain a healthy, stable condition.
By far the most important element
and the one over which we have most control is the
daily diet............ More
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