FLUORIDE-FREE FEEDING TIPS
n In homemade food prepa- ration, avoid Teflon-coated pans, which may increase the fluoride levels in food.
n Avoid cooking with fluoridated water, which concentrates fluoride in the food.
n Avoid toothpaste or oral rinses intended for humans, to brush canine teeth. Dental health products made for pets are fluoride-free.
calcium citrate, ascorbate, stearate or gluconate. Or, consider a pure tricalcium and dicalcium phosphate, blended with magnesium. Fox attests that bones from lon-
ger-lived food animals such as dairy cows, laying hens and breeding stock likely contain higher levels of fluo- ride than shorter-lived animals like chickens, calves and lambs. In his article “Fluoride in Pet Food: A Seri- ous Health Risk for Both Dogs and Cats?” he writes: “Fluorides accu- mulate in farmed animals over time
from phosphate fertilizers, phosphate supplements, bone meal and fish meal supplements and pesticide and industrial-pollution-contaminated pastures and animal feed. The bones, fins, gills and scales of fish are often high in fluoride.” He recommends raw food diets that avoid ground bone from older animals like beef cattle and adult sheep.
Dr. Karen Becker is a proactive and integrative veterinarian in the Chicago area, consults internationally and writes Mercola Healthy Pets (
HealthyPets.Mercola.com).
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Ingestion of Fluoride The EWG recommends owners purchase pet foods free of bone meal and other meals made from animal byproducts. It also suggests that gov- ernment set fluoride limits in pet food that protect both puppies and large breeds most at risk for bone cancer. Dr. Michael W. Fox, an internation-
ally recognized veterinarian and former vice president of the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International, recommends providing pets with fluoride-free water; spring water or reverse osmosis filtered water also works well. In preparing homemade food for
a pet, make sure any added bone meal is free of fluoride and lead. Ethical bone meal producers will test for these contaminants; verify with the source. Fox suggests a good bone meal
substitute might be fossilized oyster shell, dolomite or a synthesized or refined calcium supplement like
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