Eureka!

Days and hours and nights devoted to learning more and more about the effects of PROCESSED FOOD on Horses with EMS (Insulin Resistance) … something to back up my own gut feeling that PROCESSED FEEDS have direct correlation to IR … and I found the references and connected the dots. Yes!

Very simply put –

… the overt onset of diabetes is associated with a significant leukocytosis. *

What IS Leukocytosis?

Again, very simply put,

“a transient increase in the number of leukocytes in the blood, resulting from various causes, such as hemorrhage, fever, infection, inflammation, etc.” **

Now, add to this –

“Leukocytosis was first discovered in 1846. At first, it was considered normal because everyone who was tested had it. Paul Kautchakoff, M.D. later found that leukocytosis was not normal. In fact, the major cause of leukocytosis was discovered to be the eating of cooked food. An entire category of leukocytosis was classified as “digestive leukocytosis”, that is, the elevation of the white blood cell level in response to the lack of enzymes in the cooked food in the intestine.

…Raw food produced no increase in the white blood cell count. Commonly cooked food caused leukocytosis. Pressure cooked food caused even greater leukocytosis.” –www.naturalcanines.com

WHAT IS BAGGED HORSE FEED?

It is COOKED, PROCESSED grains or fillers with lots of artificial vitamins and minerals added into it.

Here is a partial list of ingredients to a very popular “Low Carb” food for horses:

Wheat Middlings, Soybean Hulls, Shredded Beet Pulp, Distillers Dried Grains, Soybean Oil, Ground Limestone, Salt, Rice Bran, Sodium Bicarbonate, Hydrolyzed Yeast, Zinc Proteinate, Copper Proteinate, Manganese Proteinate, Kelp Meal,Yeast Culture, Hydrated Sodium Calcium Aluminosilicate, Anethole, Fenugreek Seed, Lecithin, Magnesium Oxide, Iron Proteinate, Magnesium Proteinate, Dried Trichoderma Longibrachiatum Fermentation Extract, Calcium Carbonate, Selenium Yeast, Dried Lactobacillus Acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dried Enterococcus Faecium Fermentation Product, Dried Bacillus Subtilis Fermentation Extract, Monocalcium Phosphate, Dicalcium Phosphate, Flaxseed, Lignin Sulfonate, L-Lysine, Vitamin E Supplement, Ascorbic Acid (Source of Vitamin C), Niacin Supplement, Biotin, Vitamin A Supplement, Thiamine Mononitrate, Beta Carotene, Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Vitamin B12 Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Choline Chloride, Menadione Sodium Bisulfite Complex, (Source of Vitamin K Activity), Folic Acid, Brewers Dried Yeast, Ferrous Sulfate, Manganese Sulfate, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Cobalt Sulfate, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, DL-methionine, DL-methionine Hydroxy Analog.

Wheat Middlings — what is left of the hard wheat grain after the insides and nutrional parts have been utilizied — the hulls, basically. Often referred to as the “Floor Sweepings”.

Soybean Hulls — Exactly what that says. The hulls of the soybean. Great fiber filler but no nutrition.

Distillers Dried Grains – what’s left at the bottom of the barrels after liquor is fermented and produced. The leftover liquid/mash is simply dried and then further processed into the horse feed.

And then we have Soybean Oil. Partially hydrogenated Soybean Oil is …

extremely toxic. We know that, long-term, they [partially hydrogenated oil] will lead to cardiovascular disease and heart attacks. They can even encourage strokes. We know that they cause harm, sometimes irreparable, to the nervous system. We know that they interfere with the absorption of the essential fatty acids you need to maintain healthy cells, a healthy nervous system, healthy blood sugar regulation and many other functions.  ~naturalnews.com

The rest of the ingredients are all ‘additives’ to replace the NATURAL vitamins, minerals and nutrients that horses need to be well and maintain health all of which can be found in LIVE FOODS!

Now let’s put this all together.

1. LEUKOCYTOSIS is caused from eating COOKED, PROCESSED FOOD.
2. Manufactured Horse Food is COOKED and PROCESSED.
3. Leukocytosis causes the ONSET OF DIABETES (translate that as IR or EMS)

And there we have connected the dots.

WHAT ARE YOU FEEDING YOUR IR HORSE TODAY?

Go here: http://www.thepenzancehorse.com and click on the ARTICLES link to read about FEEDING HORSES NATURALLY.

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*Susan Eastman , Helle Markholst , Deborah Wilson and Åke Lernmark http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1879302
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**Dorlands Illustrated Medical Dictionary

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The Dots are Connected!