Nutrition - Healthy, Living, Eating, Nutrients

A great, healthy diet for dogs: High quality meat protein + antioxidants and phytonutrients

Food is not trivial to the billions and billions of cells in our body that rely on it to protect our health and prolong our longevity. Billions of chemical reactions occur every minute in each cell, and their sole energy source is our food.

Food can bestow health and vigor or make is ill and miserable.

Food can quicken the brain and lift our mood or it can interfere with our thinking.

Food can silently erode our joints and clog our arteries or reverse the damage.

Food can instigate cancer cells or attack them, leaving them to die and disappear.

Food can deter the body’s deterioration, thereby interfering with the so-called natural process of aging.

Food can attack bacteria and viruses and stimulate the body’s immune system.

There is hardly a health problem or natural body process that is not influenced in some part by the food we eat.

Healthy Living Starts with Healthy Eating™

Proper nutrition fuels a dog's healthy development and boosts the immune system. A poorly functioning immune system makes the body more vulnerable to disease. Poor nutrition is implicated in nearly 1/3 of all human chronic diseases.

There is a growing body of evidence showing that nutritional supplements (e.g., multivitamins) are an inadequate source of nutrients because they are minimally absorbed by our bodies. Researchers are finding that the hundreds of micronutrients in foods work together so that the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts.

Look for Nutrient Density

While some whole grains, fruits and vegetables may be good choices, there may be better choices. The concept of nutrient density is core to Thrive! Foods' nutrition philosophy.

Nutrient density refers to nutrition per calorie. Nutrient dense foods have few empty calories. Getting a full day's supply of vitamin A with 50 calories is better than with 2,50 calories.

All fruits and vegetables, whole grains and nuts aren't created equal when it comes to nutrient density. It's important to chose nutrient dense foods such as spices, whole grains, brightly colored fruits and vegetables, and healthy oils.