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Caveat: I am NOT an animal expert. I don’t have a dog, I have cats. Dogs have around 15,000 years of selective breeding behind them. Of course they can eat our foods… or most of them! Despite what the premium brands tell you, a dog is not a wolf and it doesn’t require the same nutrients as a wolf. Dogs can eat many vegetables and they seem to enjoy them. There’s an article on the Humane society site which lists human foods that are harmful to dogs. I would not feed a dog chocolate or anything from the onion family. Foods potentially poisonous to pets : The Humane Society of the United States There are a number of good books on feeding dogs (and cats) homemade or even raw foods. Dr. Pitcairn’s Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs & Cats has valuable information on the nutritional needs of both dogs and cats, and recipes for healthful meals you can make in batches. The book even has recipes for supplements you can spoon onto commercial dog or cat ...

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Day 7, Saturday. First off, the night before I dreamed I was driving down a road with fast-food joints as far as I could see. I woke up with the intention of having a rare tenderloin. I think I am craving B12, taurine or fat. In the past when I’ve quit eating red meat I’m become anemic. What foods have the B12 and taurine? I quit my fish oil supplements and am considering starting them again. I found a new vegetable market with astonishing prices, but while I was there I started feeling anxious and dizzy. I went around the corner and had a small cheesesteak and a half slice of pizza. Mistake. I felt great after eating but it didn’t last long. I was exhausted, I dozed in a chair most of the day, any exertion made me sweat. Anyway, before the crash I went to the new store and bought a box full of stuff. 6# tomatoes, 4# each apples, oranges, and spinach. 3# carrots, 2# celery and lemons, and 2 big bunches of parsley. So I made a gallon of tomato cocktail last night and ha...

After watching the movie Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead Breville 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite 1000-Watt Juice Extractor “I guess that’s yer partner in the wood chipper” model that I bought a couple of years ago after careful consideration. Bonus: the pulp is great for the compost pile. Anyway… Day 4, almost day 5. I don’t sleep well in the heat, even with the AC on. Anybody else have that problem? When I was a kid I was scrawny and hyper and I loved the heat. I ran a lot of errands today, including stocking up on 4 lbs tomatoes, 3 lb apples and 1 lb carrots, with beets, celery and kale to round out the nutrition. I considered getting a bell pepper but decided against the bitterness this time. Instead I got some jalepeno peppers to add some flavor and bring out the sweetness of the carrots and beets. And a pineapple for the heartburn that has developed, and strawberries because the apple/strawberry/mint combination was so tasty, and a grapefruit becau...

Day 3 is coming to a close. I’m not feeling better than yesterday, but I’m not feeling worse. I am now officially committing to another 2 days on juice alone. I don’t think fruit would be a good idea. If I make it to 5 days, it will be EASY to get to 10. I’m trying to convince myself of that. My mind has been feeding me images of food. The thoughts pop into my head as if I’d already made the decision. My car tried to take me to McDonalds tonight. It’s odd, because McDonald’s hardly quailifies as food. It’s salty, greasy slabs of something that gives the impression of being meat. I seem to be sleeping ok. Better, actually. I also seemed to tolerate the heat better than usual today. We’ll have to see how I tolerate the hot weather coming in tomorrow.

Day 2. I don’t feel hungry but I’m craving foods. I’m also gritting my teeth and feeling anxious. I’m going to do an extra half hour on the exercise bike later in hopes of tapping glycogen stores. My husband cooked salmon last night and it smelled unbelievably good. He bought me a bottle of V-8 and I didn’t have the heart to tell him it’s too salty. Later I found myself browsing recipes online. Unfortunately they were barbeque recipes. I made a treat while I was doing my juicing for the day – an apple, a handful of wild strawberries, and a sprig of mint. I also made a tomato mixture and yes, I juiced the tomato instead of pureeing it this time. A glass of kale juice – yeah, gonna have to keep mixing that with apple for now. And my favorite, orange-carrot-ginger.

Just getting started on this. I don’t have the willpower some folks have, so I’ve been gradually cutting down on food as I get into it. I’ve been juicing for a couple of years but until I saw Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead it didn’t occur to me that a juice fast is doable. I know from experience fasting that it gets easier after a day or two. I can do this. My favorite juice is orange-carrot-ginger but it has too much sugar for me to be drinking huge quantities of it. Ditto apple-kale, but fortunately kale is relatively mild in flavor so I can drink it in small quantities. Hint: a pinch of vitamin C powder will prevent juices from turning brown. Today I made a half gallon of tomato juice blend, but I cheated, I pureed the tomato in the blender. Like Ray Stewart, I think it’s a crime to put a beautiful Roma down the chute. I PROMISE, I will juice it next time. Anyway, the juice blend was tomato, carrot, beet, kale, celery, cucumber and a half lemon. I will be...