Day 51  pf


6.30 am.  Weight 99.6 kg. Adding another 0.3 kg.

Blood/glucose 7.8 mmol/L. Drank a glass of Russian grape juice last night, tasted like pure glucose.

Blood Pressure 138/81 pulse 85. Now everything increases.

Cough coming back. Stomach still flat for now.



I asked my youngest daughter to look up for me 'Why do we feed horses 'oates' and what effect does it have on them?  She couldn't find the answer but she did find this article about the obesity and diabetes epidemic in horses.Here's an excerpt.

"Now before I close I want to discuss one more very important supplement that is needed – GOOD FAT!

Now I know I am picking on commercial feeds here but in my humble opinion they need it - pretty much all commercial feeds contain JUNK FAT! AND this is probably the biggest reason we have so many overweight, insulin resistant horses today. Junk fat is in our horse feed just like it is in our food! JUNK FAT IS KILLING US AND OUR HORSES! Processed, hydrogenated vegetable oils (flax, corn, etc.) are destroying our cells internally and even messing with our nervous systems – nerves and cells are all surrounded by fat membranes. It has the effect of making all such membranes impermeable, like plastic balls.

Today, diets are higher in fat than they were in years past, especially senior feeds and “low carbs” type diets, BUT THE PROBLEM is the type of fat they are using is awful. If your feed says only vegetable oil or doesn’t say that it is NOT HYROGENATED, chances are it is – and, again, awful for our horse.

The same goes for your food, especially snacks - read the labels and avoid these fats. BUT remember - horses do need fat. It should be a great source of omega fatty acids (they need omega 3, 6 and 9, by the way, not just 3). These fats “slow” the absorption of grain, oats or otherwise making the digestion process slower, and obviously will help lubricate the gut as well (great for sandy conditions,too).

In addition, these good fats are great because they nourish the cells.

I prefer to use crude, cold pressed, NON hydrogenated, NON refined soybean oil.

Have you ever heard the expression that “the only way to burn fat is with fat” – well I do believe it is true, because these fat horses (and people) do get better when the good fat is used to displace the bad. I have no doubt that cells, overall, just start to function better n conjunction with these fats because the membrane’s major function is to allow the good stuff to get in and the junk to get out.

I suggest good fats for all horses as both a preventive and a treatment.

Yes, too much can make a fat horse, but a couple ounces per day of our GMO-Free Weight Check Oil, that meets all of the preferred criteria set forth above can make all the difference in the health of a horse. You can actually see the difference in just a few weeks.

I also think that any metabolic, even EPM, neurodegenerative horses require lots of good oil. I have a sneaky suspicion that many “super bugs’ such as those that cause EPM get trapped in fats cells and good fats can flush them out, so to speak. Regardless, they are healthy – commercially used fats are generally not!  "

http://www.thenaturalvet.net/For-The-Health-Of-Horses-Feed-Oats_ep_54.html


Makes you wonder what is happening.