I hear more and more about celebrities and fitness orientated people doing fast based or master cleanse diet regimes. All of which made me wonder whether, if these diets are so old and so effective in terms of promoting health and balance, whether something similar to the master cleanse diet would have health benefits for dogs?
More to the point, I was looking for any generally agreed wisdom about the health benefits of fasting for dogs.
I know many people who routinely enforce a fast on their dogs.
In some cases, I know of dog owners who only feed their dog 6 days per week.
What I found:
How Fasting Can Clean Your Dog’s System From Years Of Poor Diet
If you’re one of the millions of dog owners who occasionally allow your pet to indulge in the delightful scraps from your own less than perfect diet such cheap hamburgers, hot dogs, cold cuts, semi moist sugar-preserved dog foods – or any foods containing nitrates, nitrites, aldehydes, and other assorted harmful additives – the particular pancreatic enzymes that are needed to digest the proteins in your dog’s system become depleted quite rapidly. So could your porky pet benefit from a short fast?
Meats that have been thoroughly cooked rarely contain enough live enzymes to be of any value to the dog’s digestive system.
